Launchpad Group SAP Solution Manager Administration

This Launchpad group is the central access point for all the information and functions you need to run SAP Solution Manager.

It is divided into different tiles, in which you set up and manage solutions, projects and systems, and can perform user functions and common administration tasks.

Features

The group consists of the following tiles displayed by default:

Tile	Description
Landscape Management	The SAP Solution Manager Landscape Management Database (LMDB) is the central landscape information repository. A system landscape description is the basis for almost all SAP Solution Manager applications. Also to calculate updates and upgrades with the maintenance planner in SAP Support Portal, a landscape description is required. In the tile Landscape Management you can display, create and edit the information for hosts, technical systems, logical component groups and transport domains available in the LMDB.
Technical System Search Variants - Maintenance	In this tile, you can predefine search variants for different applications in SAP Solution Manager. The search variants that you define here can be globally used by all users, they are no personal search variants. For more information, see Technical System Search Variants - Maintenance.
Technical Scenarios - Maintenance	A technical scenario is a group of technical systems that work together technically. Information about technical scenarios is saved in the landscape management database (LMDB). In this tile, you can view, edit, and create technical scenarios. For more information, see Managing Technical Scenarios.
User Administration	You can configure user-specific settings, for example, system user, business partner, and role. For more information, see User Administration.
Agents - Administration	In this tile, you can manage diagnostics agents installed in all managed systems, centrally. For more information, see Agent Framework (or Agent Administration for more detailed functions).
Agents per Technical System - Administration	In this tile, you can start the agent administration via selecting a system. For more information about the two options accessing the agent administration, see Starting the Agent Administration.
Extractors - Administration	The Extractor Framework (EFWK) is the central infrastructure for SAP Solution Manager for data collection and distribution. In this tile, you can monitor the status of the extractors, identify the causes of errors, and resolve problems. For more information, see Extractor Framework.
Extractors - Alerting Administration	The Alerting Framework is part of the Extractor Framework which supplies data to the E2E Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI). In this tile, you can monitor and manage the MAI extractors. MAI uses a special set of extractors and providers, the Data Provider Connector (DPC). For more information, see Alerting Framework. Note So you have two tiles available to monitor the EFWK functions: Use the tile Extractors - Administration to monitor extractors which do not belong to the DPC. This is the Extractor Framework. Use the tile Extractors - Alerting Administration to monitor extractors which belong to the DPC. This is the Alerting Framework. End of the note.
Configuration Change Database - Store Administration	The configuration and change database (CCDB) stores the configuration data of the systems connected to SAP Solution Manager, allowing you to trace configuration changes. In this tile, you can access CCDB administration. For more information, see Configuration and Change Database (CCDB).
CA Introscope - EM Administration	The Enterprise Manager (EM) acts as the central repository for all Introscope performance data and metrics collected in an application environment. In this tile, you can configure or monitor your Enterprise Managers. For more information, see Introscope.
Rapid Content Delivery	Rapid Content Delivery allows you to import the latest content updates for various SAP Solution Manager functions, such as, Monitoring and Alerting, Guided Procedure, and Customer Usage Provisioning. Content updates are available in the form of Support Packages (content package) in SAP Service Marketplace. In this tile, you can configure rapid content delivery to download content packages. For more information, see Rapid Content Delivery.
Self-Monitoring - SAP Solution Manager	The Self-Monitoring tile provides you with a large number of metrics and alert types, together with different applications, that inform you early about potential problems in the end-to-end monitoring and alerting infrastructure (MAI). For more information, see Self-Monitoring of the Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure.
Self-Diagnosis - SAP Solution Manager	In the Self-Diagnosis tile, you monitor the status of the SAP Solution Manager system and the managed systems. For more information, see Self-Diagnosis.
Analyze Reporting - Business Warehouse	BW-based reporting provides you with a large number of scenarios in SAP Solution Manager, in which reporting data is collected across systems in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW). In this tile, you can obtain information about the status of the connections between the SAP Solution Manager system and the associated BW; you can also see the current status of BW-based reporting, broken down by the different scenarios. For more information, see Self-Monitoring of BW-Based Reporting.

The following tiles are not displayed by default:

Tile	Description
Administration - Work Center	In this tile, you can start the work center SAP Solution Manager Administration, as you know it from SAP Solution Manager 7.1.
Templates - Root Cause Analysis	In this tile, you can access the following content management functions of SAP Solution Manager: Check the version of the store templates used. Check which product versions, product instances, and software component versions are supported by the extractor framework. If necessary, you can upload extractor templates provided in an SAP Note. Manage the configuration file (config.xml) that controls the behavior of E2E Workload Analysis (WA) and E2E Change Analysis (CA). Integrate customer applications into the work center infrastructure. For more information, see Content.
Service Connections - R/3 and HTTP	You can open a service connection for a specified period, for an SAP Support staff member to log on to your system and perform support in the work center. For more information, see Service Connections.
Landscape API - Administration	In this tile, you can display and maintain properties of managed objects in your landscape.

Note Note

To add the tiles to the home page, proceed as follows:

Choose the button Personalize Home Page.
Add a new tile in the group SAP Solution Manager Administration by choosing the "+" button. The Tile Catalog is displayed.
Navigate to the group SAP Solution Manager Administration, and for the corresponding tile, choose the button Add tile to group.
Leave the tile catalog by choosing the button Back, and choose the button Exit Action Mode.

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