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Function documentationCreating Product System Information

 

With the product system editor of the Landscape Management Database (LMDB) in SAP Solution Manager, you can create, change, and delete information about product systems.

For more information about product systems, see Managing Product System Information.

Note Note

As of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP05, product systems are managed in the LMDB and no longer in transaction SMSY. For information about the differences between LMDB and SMSY, see SAP Note 1679673Information published on SAP site.

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Prerequisites

If you created product system information in SAP Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY) in an earlier release, you can migrate those descriptions into the LMDB during SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP). You do not need to re-create it manually. For more information, see Migrating System Information from SMSY to LMDB.

Activities

Creating Product Systems Automatically

As of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP12, many product systems can be created automatically, because the characteristics of a technical system are sufficient to derive the information required for the product system.

Prerequisite is a technical system in the LMDB for which there is no product system with the same name, and for which installed product instances are registered.

To create a product system for a technical system automatically, you have the following options:

  • Access SAP Solution Manager: Configuration and go to Start of the navigation path Managed Systems Configuration Next navigation step Configure System Next navigation step Assign Product Next navigation step Create Automatically End of the navigation path.

  • Start transaction LMDB and open the technical system in edit mode. Choose Start of the navigation path Software Next navigation step Edit Product System Assignment End of the navigation path. If it is possible, you are asked if you want to create the product system automatically.

  • To mass-create product systems for several technical systems, start transaction SA38 and execute the report RLMDB_PROD_SYST_AUTO_CREATION. For more information, read the report documentation.

The installed product instances will be assigned to the product system. If the technical system is part of a dual-stack, the corresponding AS Java or AS ABAP stack will also be assigned.

Creating and Editing Product Systems Manually

  1. To create a product system for a technical system manually, you have the following options:

    • Access SAP Solution Manager: Configuration and go to Start of the navigation path Managed Systems Configuration Next navigation step Configure System Next navigation step Assign Product Next navigation step Assign Product System... End of the navigation path For more information, see the help text for the step.

    • In transaction LMDB, select the technical system for which you want to create a product system, and choose Edit.

      Under Software, choose Edit Product System Assignment and follow the instructions in the popup.

    • In transaction LMDB, enter a name for the product system on the Product Systems tab, and choose Create. Follow the guided activity.

  2. Define the technical systems and the product instances of the product system. Whereas technical systems that are maintained together are usually well-known, the product instances are sometimes hard to find, if they are not provided by the technical system. The editors for the product system and for the technical systems propose product instances, based on the installed software components. Sometimes, several configurations are possible; select one for your product system.

    Choose Assigned Technical Systems, then Add. For more information, see the help text in the popup.

    For each product instance that you assign, choose Execute Verification Check in the popup.

  3. Choose Close.

    The assigned product instances are now listed in the table, sorted by their technical system and product version.

    Review your settings. To persist your changes to database, choose Save.

  4. Perform a verification check of the product system. For more information, see Performing Verification Checks.

    Follow the instructions in the help text and in the error messages.

  5. Choose Save in the Overview screen.

Note Note

When you assign product instances that are not marked as installed on the technical systems, they also appear in the Software screen of the technical system editor, but the Installed indicator is not set, so you can assign product instances to a product system that are not installed on the technical system. In the technical system editor, you can see the following information for a product instance:

  • if it is installed on the technical system

  • if it is assigned to a product system

  • if it is diagnostics-relevant on the technical system

  • if it is assigned to a logical component

Do not set the Installed indicator for product instances in the technical system editor, manually. You only need to assign the product instances to a product system, or mark them as diagnostics-relevant.

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Updating Product Systems

Once created manually, product system information is updated automatically when the information for related technical systems is updated. (Until SP08, product system information also had to be updated, manually.)

After a product upgrade, the SLD data supplier provides information about the new product instance. With the next SLD synchronization, the LMDB updates the assigned product instances and the indicator for diagnostics-relevance.

Note Note

When you have edited installed product instances for technical systems, manually, the information will not be updated automatically, so avoid editing installed product instances.

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For more information, see SAP Note 1832868Information published on SAP site.

More Information

For more information about setting up product systems, see the following documents: