Product |
SAP Solution Manager |
Release |
7.1 SP05 |
Based on |
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP2 SP10 |
Documentation published |
June 2012 |
SAP Solution Manager supports you throughout the entire life-cycle of your solutions, from the Business Blueprint to the configuration to production processing. It provides central access to tools, methods and preconfigured contents which you can use during evaluation, implementation and operational processing of your systems.
SAP Solution Manager Administration Work Center:
Central access to all functions for administrative tasks
Landscape Management Database (LMDB):
Central source of system landscape description data
Create, manage, and edit solutions
SAP Engagement and Service Delivery Work Center:
Overview of the entire customer solution
Use of SAP services
Documentation and tracing of problems that occur
Solution Documentation Assistant:
Performance of analysis projects to evaluate business processes
Custom Development Management Cockpit:
Support for managing custom developments and modifications
Central access to all tools for your project (Business Blueprint, Configuration, Landscape Management)
Creation and use of predefined project plans with a collection of activities and tasks, as well as accelerators and tools that cover the most important aspects and phases of an implementation project.
Customizing Distribution and Synchronization:
Compare and synchronize customizing between SAP components
Global Rollout with a Template:
Creation of templates for global rollout
Compare and adjust structure contents in various lifecycle phases
Central test management, from test planning to test evaluation
Business Process Change Analyzer:
Change impact analysis for processes
Test functions and tools almost exclusively from SAP Solution Manager and SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS)
Test functions and tools from SAP Solution Manager, SAP TDMS, SAP Quality Center by HP, and SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization
Test functions and tools from SAP Solution Manager, SAP TDMS, and IBM Rational
Enhanced Change and Transport System:
Transport ABAP and Java objects, and SAP-specific non-ABAP applications
Control changes in projects
Phase-based change control
Solution support with integrated workflow for centrally managing and processing incidents covering all IT solutions in your company
Incident Management can include an external Help Desk, set up service connections, and access SAP Service & Support.
Technical Monitoring and Alerting:
Monitoring of complex system landscapes using an integrated monitoring and alerting infrastructure
Monitoring of systems for a solution using CCMS
Monitor and reduce data volumes
Planning, setting up, performing, and reporting administrative tasks
Analyze the causes of incidents and search for solutions
Extensive reporting functions, such as system availability, interactive reporting, analyses for solutions
Business Process and Interface Monitoring:
Monitoring of business-critical processes and interfaces in your solution
Monitoring of the data consistency, for example, during mass updates or Customizing changes
Automation of business processes
Start maintenance processes in product systems, and step-by-step instructions for downloading and implementing the identified product maintenance files
Find and display SAP Notes relevant for a technical system
Automatic installation of corrections from SAP Notes
Obtain license data for administered systems with a valid maintenance contract
Custom Development Management Cockpit:
Analysis of the effects of upgrades/changes
Before an upgrade, identifies functional, product-related dependencies between software component versions of product instances that are used in different product systems in the project or solution landscape.
Custom Code Lifecycle Management:
Keep an overview of your custom developments and detect any changes