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Use

This section provides you with information about administration and maintenance tasks specific to SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI). It also refers you to the tools and documentation required to perform these tasks.

More information: Process Integration .

Technical System Landscape

The technical system landscape illustrates the main technical components of PI and the communication between these components.

Prerequisites

For an overview of the various tools and engines required to operate a PI landscape, refer to Prerequisites .

Tasks

The tasks to be performed for the administration of a PI environment can be grouped as follows:

  • Management

    This section provides information about additional maintenance tasks to be performed during operation, for example, starting and stopping systems and instances, logging and tracing, backup and restore, and so on.

  • Software logistics

    This section provides information about release and upgrade management, transport and change management, and software maintenance.

  • Troubleshooting

    This section provides information about how to handle problems and error situations.