Maintenance Optimizer provides many scenarios for performing maintenance procedures. You can, for example, 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.
You have completed the prerequisite steps described in Prerequisites.
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 that you specify when you create the maintenance procedure. Maintenance Optimizer offers the following scenarios:
Download Files in Download Basket
Use this scenario if you want to 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 Download Files into Download Basket.
Note
Files in the download basket are approved automatically.
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.
Maintenance Transaction with Installation of an Enhancement Package
Use this scenario to install one of the following enhancement packages 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.
Maintenance Transaction with Installation of Add-Ons Only
In this scenario, you install add-ons without changing the enhancement package or support package installed in your system.
For more information, see
Upgrade
You can upgrade your product version in this scenario with Maintenance Optimizer.
For more information, see Maintenance Transaction with Installation of Add-Ons Only.Upgrade.
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
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