Managing Heterogeneous System Landscapes 

In a large and complex IT landscape, you must have a system management solution in place. This variant aims to introduce you to integrating the SAP NetWeaver with the Microsoft Windows Operational System and IBM’s Tivoli system management portfolio. To leverage and integrate the SAP applications in the IT system landscapes including solutions from third party vendors, SAP NetWeaver has combined these assets to achieve optimization, availability, security, and provisioning for your entire SAP and IT environment. You can combine the SAP NetWeaver’s capabilities with market-leading system management tools in the areas of storage and archiving, identity and access management, monitoring, provisioning, scheduling, and others.

Integration with Microsoft Windows

SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Windows operating system allow the integration of the users that are available on the operating system and the users available on SAP NetWeaver. Using SAP NetWeaver, the users’ authentication procedure is less time-consuming and users can authenticate to both products at the same time. So instead of authenticating first to Microsoft Windows and then again to confirm their identity to SAP NetWeaver, clients have to authenticate only once. For more information about the interoperability between SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Windows, see Integration with Microsoft.

Integration with IBM Tivoli

The SAP NetWeaver provides interoperability with the IBM Tivoli portfolio. You can use the features provided by Tivoli without losing the SAP NetWeaver functionality.

Tivoli makes the SAP NetWeaver functionality more complete by addressing the SAP system management needs in a global perspective with certified products and interfaces. Tivoli can help you in the following phases of your SAP implementation projects:

●      Implementation

●      Infrastructure optimization

●      Maintenance

For more information about the interoperability between SAP NetWeaver and IBM Tivoli, see Integration with IBM.

Benefits

This interoperability gives you the following benefits:

●      Fast and efficient availability and performance monitoring of an SAP NetWeaver environment within the larger scope of the entire IT environment in an end-to-end perspective.

●      Integrate complex security solutions with all SAP and non-SAP security needs, such as central and automated user management, Single Sign-on directory infrastructure and synchronization.

●      Provisioning of infrastructure services for an adaptive computing-enabled environment.

●      Reliable and proven storage integration and archiving for SAP NetWeaver components.

●      Strong workload scheduling functionality beyond SAP batch scheduling.

Required or Optional Installable Units

To use this IT scenario you require the following installable units:

●      Application Server Java (AS Java)

●      Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP)

For more information about the required system landscape, see the Master Guide on service.sap.com/instguidesNW70.