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Procedure documentationMaintenance Procedure Scenarios

 

Maintenance Optimizer provides a lot of scenarios for performing maintenance procedures. You can, for example, approve and download files in the download basket, locally to your PC. Maintenance Optimizer also leads you through the procedures required to plan maintenance transactions and download and implement support package stacks, enhancement packages and patches.

Maintenance Optimizer provides a guided procedure for all available scenarios.

Prerequisites

Information about the prerequisites for the scenarios is under Prerequisites.

Procedure

Maintenance Procedure Scenarios

Maintenance Optimizer contains a lot of scenarios for maintenance transactions.

Information about steps that are common to all procedures is under Steps in a Maintenance Transaction.

Which scenario you can perform depends on the product version which you specify when you create the maintenance procedure. Maintenance Optimizer offers the following scenarios:

  • Scenario 1: Approve and Download Files in Download Basket

    Use this scenario if you want to approve and download files in your download basket, for a product version. You can put files either in the SAP Service Marketplace, or directly in the download basket in Maintenance Optimizer.

    For more information, see Approve and Download Files into Download Basket.

  • Scenario 2: Maintenance Transaction with Installation of a Support Package Stack

    Use this scenario if one of the following applies:

    • You want to perform a maintenance transaction for a product version for which a support package stack is to be installed.

    • You want to perform a maintenance transaction for a product version for which a support package stack is to be installed for an installed enhancement package.

    In this transaction, an SAP support package stack is installed. Support package stacks are sets of support packages that have been tested together by SAP.

    For more information, see Maintenance Procedure with Installation of a Support Package Stack.

  • Scenario 3: Maintenance Transaction with Installation of an Enhancement Package

    Use this scenario to install one of the following enhancement package for a product version:

    • Enhancement package without technical usages

    • Enhancement package with technical usages

    For more information, see Maintenance Procedure with Installation of an Enhancement Package.

  • Scenario 4: Upgrade

    You can upgrade your product version in this scenario with Maintenance Optimizer.

    For more information, see Upgrade.

  • Scenario 5: Upgrade with Installation of an Enhancement Package

    In this scenario, Maintenance Optimizer can combine the upgrade of your product version with the installation of an enhancement package.

    For more information, see Upgrade with Installation of an Enhancement Package.

    Example Example

    If you selected product version SAP NetWeaver 7.0 in the first step, you can choose between the following options:

    • Maintenance (install a support package stack)

    • Installation of an enhancement package (with technical usages)

    • Upgrade

    End of the example.