Using SAP MMC Snapshots in the SAP System

An SAP MMC snapshot is used to freeze the state of an SAP system as you see it in SAP MMC at a particular point in time, in order to be able to view it again later offline with SAP MMC. An active network connection to the SAP system is therefore not necessary for the analysis later. Usually, a snapshot does not contain any files in their original format. Rather, it is a collection of Web service responses from the application server to the SAP MMC. Snapshots are provided in a zip archive. The individual files are XML files with an HTTP header. If a data collector is available in the SAP system, this can add further information to the snapshot.