Managing Logical Component Groups

Logical components describe a group of technical systems that provide one functionality in different roles. The information is used in the Solution Documentation.

A logical component is one "path" of technical systems and their roles, for example, development, test, and production system. It generally follows the transport routes and contains the systems for a maintenance-to-production route or a development-to-quality-assurance route. Technical systems in a logical component should be synchronized during change processes, for example development, test and production system.

A logical component group bundles all logical components for maintenance-to-production and development that are related to the same production system. It covers, for example, all ERP systems or all CRM systems of the solution. They form the link between the business perspective and technical perspective of a landscape and interconnect technical system landscape and planning landscape. With the exception of SAP Solution Manager 7.1, a logical component group belongs to only one solution.

Prerequisites

For the activation of your solution landscape in SAP Solution Manager 7.2, see the Solution Documentation Content Activation Guide at http://service.sap.com/instguides Start of the navigation path SAP Components Next navigation step SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Upgrade End of the navigation path .

Activities

You assign and create logical component groups in the Solution Documentation.

To display all logical component groups, start the Landscape Management application and choose Logical Component Groups.

Activating Logical Components in SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Before the activation, logical components are displayed only. The content activation of the solution documentation includes logical components that were previously created or changed by a user in transactions SMSY or LMDB.

This step must be prepared before the actual technical upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.2, with transaction PREPARE_ACTIVATION for the solution documentation. Implement SAP Note 2045230 to import the transaction to your 7.1 system.

For more information, see the content activation guide at https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/012002523100011391702015E.

The activation covers the following data:

Assignment to technical systems
Creation of new solutions-based logical component groups and logical components.
New assignments of technical systems to the solutions, branches (such as production, maintenance, and development), and system roles
Logical component assignments with their usages, for example, in the solution documentation, test repository, and job scheduling management.

Creating and Editing Logical Components

In the Solution Administration, you can create and delete logical component groups and logical components of a solution.

You can change the assignments of logical components to technical systems in the Landscape Management application.

For more information, see the documentation that is provided in the UI.

Managing System Roles for Logical Components

The following system roles are predefined by SAP:

System Role	Use
Evaluation system	Business blueprint
Development system	Configuration, upgrade
Quality assurance system	Testing
Production system	Leading system role in operational processing for system and business process monitoring. SAP EarlyWatch alerts are supported for all system roles.
Training system	Training
Demo system	Demonstration
SAP Reference system	Reference

In addition to the predefined SAP system roles, you can define your own system roles. In the editor for logical components, select a logical component group for editing on the Logical Component Groups tab. Select a logical component from the navigation tree. For each technical system of a logical component, you can choose Maintain Roles to edit the roles. (Roles predefined by SAP cannot be changed.)