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With the product system editor of the Landscape Management Database (LMDB) in SAP Solution Manager, you can create, change, and delete information about product systems.

For more information about product systems, see Managing Product System Information.

Note Note

As of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP05, product systems are managed in the LMDB and no longer in transaction SMSY. For information about the differences between LMDB and SMSY, see SAP Note 1679673.

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Prerequisites

If you created product system information in SAP Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY) in an earlier release, you can migrate those descriptions into the LMDB during SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP); you do not need to re-create it manually. For more information, see Migrating System Information from SMSY to LMDB.

Activities

Creating a New Product System

Product system descriptions must be created manually in SAP Solution Manager.

  1. There are two ways of creating a product system:

    • Go to   SAP Solution Manager: Work Centers   Solution Manager Administration   Landscape   Technical Systems  . Select the technical system for which you want to create a product system, and choose Edit.

      Under Software, choose Edit Product System Assignment and follow the instructions in the popup.

    • Start transaction LMDB, enter a name for the product system on the Product Systems tab, and choose Create. Follow the guided activity.

  2. Define the technical systems and the product instances that belong to the product system. Whereas technical systems that are maintained together are usually well-known, the correct product instances are sometimes hard to find if they are not provided by the technical system. The editors for product system and for technical systems provide proposals for the product instances selection. The proposals are based on the set of installed software components. Sometimes several valid configurations are possible; so you must select the one that is correct for your product system.

    Choose Assigned Technical Systems, then Add. For more information, see the help text in the popup.

    For each product instance that you assign, choose Execute Verification Check in the popup.

  3. Choose Close.

    The assigned product instances are now listed in the table, sorted by their technical system and product version.

    Review your settings. To persist your changes to database, choose Save.

  4. Perform a verification check for the product system. For more information, see Performing Verification Checks.

    Follow the instructions in the help text and in the error messages.

  5. Choose Save in the Overview screen.

Note Note

When you assign product instances that are not marked as installed on the technical systems, these product instances also appear in the Software screen of the technical system editor, but the Installed indicator is not set. That means, you can assign product instances to a product system that are not installed on the technical system. In the technical system editor, you can see the following information for a product instance:

  • if it is installed on the technical system

  • if it is assigned to a product system

  • if it is diagnostics-relevant on the technical system

  • if it is assigned to a logical component

Do not set the Installed indicator for product instances in the technical system editor, manually. You only need to assign the product instances to a product system, or mark it as diagnostics-relevant.

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Updating Product Systems

Once created manually, product system information is updated automatically when the information for related technical systems is updated. (Until SP08, product system information also had to be updated, manually.)

After a product upgrade, the SLD data supplier provides information about the new product instance. With the next SLD synchronization, the LMDB updates the assigned product instances and the indicator for diagnostics-relevance.

Note Note

When you have edited installed product instances for technical systems, manually, the information will not be updated automatically, so, avoid editing installed product instances.

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For more information, see SAP Note 1832868.

More Information

For more information about setting up product systems, see the following documents: