A landscape represents a logical, complex unit that consists of multiple, distributed components. Some of these components may be systems; others may be services, installed products, or other managed elements.
SLD offers the following types of landscapes:
Administration
A system landscape that is created for administration purposes, for example, for common monitoring.
General
A system landscape that can contain all types of application systems.
NWDI Systems
A system landscape that contains servers of the NWDI. The NWDI consists of a local client - the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and some logical servers for processes like source management, build tasks, transport, and name reservation. All servers work together and require a common user base together with the IDE.
Scenarios
A system landscape that is created for a specific business scenario. Scenario landscapes are used in the Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver.
Transports
A system landscape that is created for transport purposes. For example, all SAP Web AS systems that are connected by an ABAP transport path distributing the ABAP development.
Web Services
A system landscape that is created to collect systems offering Web services and their clients. The hierarchy of these landscapes defines the Web service that is most appropriate for a given client.