The SAP Solution Manager system and the systems that you want to manage centrally have a release that is supported by central CTS. The CTS plug-in is installed in SAP Solution Manager. For further information on the CTS plug-in and an overview of the supported releases for managed systems, see SAP Note 1665940.

You have activated the ICF service for the central Change and Transport System Configuration UI. The service is called CTS_CONFIGURATION.

You have a basic understanding of working with the existing Change and Transport System and with the Transport Management System, particularly its configuration.

Transport Management System is configured for the managed systems.

The managed ABAP systems and the communication systems of the non-ABAP systems have a trust relationship with the central CTS Server (SAP Solution Manager). For this, you have performed the Managed Systems Configuration in SAP Solution Manager.

If the managed systems are not part of the SAP Solution Manager transport domain or if they are not linked to the SAP Solution Manager domain with a domain link, you must initially import the CTS Bootstrapper plug-in manually in the managed systems. Afterwards, you can automatically distribute the CTS plug-ins.

For more information, see SAP Note 1688276.

You have the relevant authorizations for configuring central CTS.