Technical System Landscape

The SLD contains information about your system landscape that is relevant for system management, business processes, and various application areas. In certain situations, systems that are accessible externally form business scenarios with internal back-end systems. These scenarios can involve the SLD. In this case, the SLD contains information about both external and internal systems.

Example Example

You use e-business in systems that are in front of the firewall. These e-business systems communicate with back-end systems that are behind the firewall.

End of the example.

For security reasons, place the SLD server behind the firewall, and configure the firewall for RFC and HTTP connections. We recommend that you secure these connections by means of VPN or SNC.

The figure below illustrates the recommended network topology for the SLD server.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

For more information, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/sld Media Library .