Information Lifecycle Management Configuration Steps 
The following configuration steps are aimed at Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) administrators who want to set up the ILM solution from SAP.
Prerequisites
Before you begin you should be familiar with the concepts of ILM from SAP and its three cornerstones. For more information see:
To be able to follow these configuration steps you need to have an SAP Application Server (AS) ABAP and AS Java, 7.0 Enhancement Pack 1 installed, which can be implemented either as one dual-stack system or two standalone servers.
Features
The following components are the principal configuration-relevant constituents of ILM from SAP:
XML Data Archiving Service (XML DAS): An AS Java application which processes the incoming archiving requests and manages the archives.
User Interfaces:
XML DAS Administration is available as a WebDynpro for Java.
On the ABAP side the settings are made in archive administration (transaction SARA).
Activities
The following figure gives you an overview of the configuration steps necessary for ILM from SAP, which areas these steps affect and where they are carried out.
The figure shows the following procedure steps needed to configure ILM from SAP: