Solution Life Cycle Management 
Solution Life Cycle Management (SLCM) provides you with the technology required for the entire life cycle of your solution, from its implementation, through running a live system, to continuous modifications and upgrades.
Features
Solution Life Cycle Management comprises the following key capabilities:
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This section gives you an overview of the tools that manage your SAP licenses. |
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High availability of an SAP system is guaranteed by reducing both unscheduled and scheduled downtime to a minimum. |
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Describes the technical configuration steps required for an ABAP and a Java stack. You will also find notes for cross-SAP NetWeaver configuration, if required. |
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Customizing settings enable you to adapt the non-company specific and industry-specific functions shipped in an SAP system to the specific business requirements of your enterprise. |
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Describes how to start and stop SAP NetWeaver ABAP, Java, and the add-in installation (ABAP+Java). The procedures assume a central system that consists of a database and a central instance (ABAP, Java) on a single host. |
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SAP Solution Manager |
The SAP Solution Manager gives you central access to tools, methods, and preconfigured content that you can use while evaluating and implementing your solutions. When your implementation is running, you can use the SAP Solution Manager to manage and monitor systems and business processes in your solution landscape, and also to set up and operate your own solution support. For more information, see the SAP Solution Manager documentation. |
The monitoring features in IT landscapes monitor IT components and processes that run across multiple components. The monitoring results are displayed in a central system. Any problems are displayed as alerts. You can use the relevant analysis methods to go to an appropriate transaction or tool to evaluate the problem. |
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With SAP Management Console, you can start, stop and monitor SAP systems and their instances centrally. Unlike SAP MMC, SAP Management Console is a Java applet, which means that you can manage remote systems regardless of platforms with your browser without a local installation. |
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The SAP Microsoft Management Console (SAP MMC) provides a common framework for system management. You can use this to start, stop and monitor SAP systems centrally with Microsoft Windows platforms. |
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SAP NetWeaver Administrator combines the most important administration and monitoring tools for Java systems in a browser-based user interface. The greatest benefits that SAP NetWeaver Administrator provides you with are:
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The System Landscape Directory is the central information repository for your system landscape. It contains information about all installable and installed components in a system landscape. |
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Here you can find more information about routine administration of the databases that are supported by SAP. |
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The SAP Printing Guide describes the functions of the SAP spool system. This system was designed for use on different platforms. To save users from having to deal with operating-system-specific issues, SAP provides its own spool service and a spool database. |
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SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood |
SAP CPS provides you with a landscape-wide, event- and time-controlled job scheduling in real time in SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP. It makes it possible for you to automate processes by managing all background processes that affect one or more applications in your whole system landscape. You can find the documentation for SAP Central Process Scheduling on SCN at |
If you want to change your operating system, your database, or both, you must perform a system copy. We also recommend that you perform a system copy if you are planning to set up a test system, demo system, or training system. |
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You need to regularly back up your operating system and database to restore the SAP system, if required. |
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You can use the tools and processes in Software Logistics to implement new functions, to copy or migrate existing systems and to support the creation and distribution of changes in your system landscape. You can also update your system landscape in order to ensure smooth operation and upgrade existing scenarios in your landscape to new releases. |
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Statistics give you an overview of system performance and system load. |
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You can use the data archiving functions to archive any completed business transactions that are no longer relevant for your daily operations, and so significantly reduce the load on the database. |
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The application log is a tool that collects messages, exceptions, and errors. This information is organized and displayed in a log. |
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Troubleshooting |
For information about troubleshooting (problem analysis scenarios) for particular installable software units, see the relevant sections of the documentation. The SAP Technology Troubleshooting Guide provides a central starting point for all problems and can be found at http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechTSG. |
SAP NetWeaver offers you a complete environment for all test phases of ABAP applications such as Web Dynpro Java applications: Starting with the test display and test execution with eCATT through to test management with the Test Workbench. |
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If you want to use SAP remote services (for example, SAP EarlyWatch or Remote Consulting), or if you would like to permit an SAP support consultant to work directly in your system to make a more precise problem diagnosis, then you need to set up a remote service connection. |
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You use the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) in your development lifecycle. |