SAP Solution Manager Operations

This part of SAP Library gives you an overview of the changes and new features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP10 since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP08.

The Release Notes are structured by Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes, and give you an overview of new, enhanced, changed and deleted functions in this process.

Supportability Performance Platform

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Supportability Performance Platform	New	Supportability Performance Platform (SPP) is the central point of access for all functions that you use to manage key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as their definitions and values.	Supportability Performance Platform

SAP Solution Manager Administration

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
SAP Solution Manager Administration Work Center	Enhanced	In the Landscape area, you can now choose the Logical Components tab to manage logical components.	Managing Logical Components
User Administration	Enhanced	In the User Administration view, you can perform mass configuration of users in your SAP Solution Manager system and managed systems. For example, you can update role assignments and authorizations.	User Administration

IT Calendar	New	You can: View Quality Gate Management phases, Quality Gate Management Q-Gates/Milestones, Change Documents, Change Cycle phases within IT Calendar. Plan a weekly recurring IT event based on single or multiple recurrence patterns. This gets synchronized with Work Mode Management.	IT Calendar
IT Task Management	New	Create tasks for managed objects such as technical systems, hosts and databases by planning guided procedures. Visualize and execute the created tasks, centrally in IT Task Inbox.	IT Task Management
Work Mode Management	New	You can schedule work modes for hosts.	Managing Work Modes
Notification Management	Enhanced	You can maintain uniform notification schedules for regular workdays and holidays for all recipients within the recipient list.	Notification Management
Service Availability Management	New	Allows you to define agreed service times, and maintain service outages and outage reporting.	Service Availability Management

Landscape Management Database (LMDB)

Function	Type of change	Description	More information
Business partner integration	New	You can assign business partners with selected functions to technical systems and databases.	See the information on the UI of the LMDB on the overview screen in the editor for technical systems.
Landscape Reporting	New	Lists selected system information from the LMDB. There are comprehensive selection and filtering options, and the lists can be exported to a spreadsheet.	Landscape Reporting
Landscape Dashboard	New	Provides an overview of the system landscape and the processes that run for the LMDB.	Landscape Dashboards
Automatic update of product system information and diagnostics-relevance indicator after update and upgrade	New	When a technical system is updated or upgraded, the new information about installed products is automatically updated in the product system description as well. (Until SP08, it was only updated in the technical system information.)
Visualization of product systems	New	In the editor for product systems, the Visualization step gives a graphical overview of the related product systems and the assigned technical systems.

Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY)

Function	Type of change	Description	More information
Editing logical components	Deleted	Logical components are no longer maintained in transaction `SMSY`, but in the SAP Solution Manager Administration work center under Landscape Logical Components . You can migrate logical components that you created in `SMSY` in previous releases to the new storage. Transaction `SMSY` only provides a display function.	Managing Logical Components

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Editing logical components

Deleted

Logical components are no longer maintained in transaction SMSY, but in the SAP Solution Manager Administration work center under Landscape Logical Components .

You can migrate logical components that you created in SMSY in previous releases to the new storage.

Transaction SMSY only provides a display function.

Managing Logical Components