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The System Landscape Overview appears upon navigation to   System Administration   System Configuration  . It is a multipurpose system management tool encompassing two primary purposes:

  • Displaying all the systems comprising the system landscape

  • Associating systems with system aliases to provide back-end connectivity

The System Landscape Overview also provides alternative access to the system editors and utilities available from the Portal Catalog context menu.

Activities

The System Landscape Overview is a table listing all the systems in the system landscape. The overview also provides the following capabilities:

  • Associate system aliases and systems

    Systems appear by their system aliases. Since a system can have multiple aliases, the same system can appear in multiple records.

    • You can assign unassigned system aliases to systems by choosing an alias from the dropdown list in the System Name field.

    • You can assign unassigned systems to system aliases by choosing an alias from a system from the dropdown list in the System Alias field.

  • Full sorting and filtering

    You can filter the system landscape list by using the dropdown lists or free text for any column and for multiple columns. You can sort the columns as well by clicking the column headings.

  • Checking system connections

    Selecting a system, or multiple systems, and choosing Test Connection verifies the system connection to its back end.

    The system landscape overview provides information about the previous connection test, including details in the event of failure.

  • Identifying the user management type

    The system landscape overview shows the user management type configured for the system, such use of a logon ticket or user ID and password; this indicates how the system is authorized to access data.

    Since systems typically access data from a back-end source, the connector to the back end may require user mapping. For more information, see Editing System Properties. The user mapping type is defined in the system properties.

  • Locating a system in the Portal Catalog

    Selecting a system and choosing Locate in Portal Catalog highlights the selected system in its location under in the Portal Catalog.

  • Selecting a system and choosing Edit System displays the Properties editor of the selected system.

    From the Properties editor, you can access the System Alias editor.

  • Viewing and checking the connectivity of roles uploaded to the portal from SAP Business Suite packages

    For more information, see Viewing Roles from Packages and Checking Role Connectivity.