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Sap Solution Manager - SLD Overview
Sap Solution Manager - SLD Overview
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Sap SLD Overview
Table of Contents
Author Bio.................................................................................................................3
What is SLD?.............................................................................................................4
Who use SLD?...........................................................................................................4
SLD Strategy.............................................................................................................4
Access to the SLD......................................................................................................4
Create Landscape......................................................................................................5
Create your Product/Software ..................................................................................7
Create Technical System ..........................................................................................9
View Systems..........................................................................................................11
Delete Systems.......................................................................................................12
View Content Information........................................................................................13
Replicate SLD..........................................................................................................16
Define new Data Suppliers......................................................................................16
Cleanup old systems...............................................................................................18
SLD In Solution Manager.........................................................................................21
View and Change the Configuration.....................................................................21
User Maintenance................................................................................................22
Check the SLD Connection...................................................................................23
Reading Multiple SLD...........................................................................................24
Add User the SLD..............................................................................................24
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Author Bio
My name is Wenceslao Lacaze and I’ve been working as a SAP
basis Administrator and Solution Manager Consultant for the last 8
years.
I’m a Techno-Functional SAP Solution Manager Subject Matter
Expert (SME), I Design, Build and Implement the product using “Run
Sap” Methodology.
I have developed a very extended experience with medium and
large scaled SAP installations in several (multi)national
environments.
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What is SLD?
SLD is the acronym of “System Landscape Directory». Is a Java Application running
in all the Sap Java Systems. Is used like Central Information repository of all your
system Landscape. SLD use the Common Information Model (CIM), this is a
standard object oriented modeling DB.
SLD Strategy
The strategy for the SLD is very important, you need to decide in witch way you
want administrate the SLD Information, there are several way and key
points(Important, Version, Etc). You can check in
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-sld the SLD paper to develop your strategy.
(My recommendation is read the Planing Guide for SLD).
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Create Landscape
The Landscape definition are used by different applications, Is the best way to
group your systems to Administrate better. You can create Landscape to:
• Administration
which is created for administration purposes, for example, for common
monitoring.
• General
which can contain all types of application systems.
• NWDI Systems
that contains servers of the NWDI
• Scenario
is created for a specific business scenario. Scenario landscapes are used in the Software
Lifecycle Manager of SAP Netweaver.
• Transport
is created for transport purposes. For example, all SAP Web AS systems that are connected by an
ABAP transport path distributing the ABAP development.
• Web Service
is created to collect systems offering Web services and their clients. The hierarchy of these
landscapes defines the Web service that is most appropriate for a given client.
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You can add new Systems to this landscape clicking in “Add System to
Landscape..”.
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Select the Installed Product and the Software component and then click in Finish
button. You can create you own product definition, check the previous chapter.
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Now you can see the System in defined in the technical Systems Screen.
View Systems
Goto the SLD Main Screen and click in Technical Systems.
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Select one system and in the bottom of the screen you ca see all the technical
details for the system selected
Delete Systems
If you want to delete system, Goto the SLD main screen and click in Technical
Systems
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Select the Subset “All With Instances” and BC Systems (our sample).
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You can see all the related information about this instance(You can update this
information but remember that is preferable use automatic update)
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If you click in Associated Instances you can see all the relationship with this
instance.
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Replicate SLD
Is mandatory to understand and create a Policy/Strategy for the SLD in your
company. SLD have different synchronization mechanics:
• Fully automatic synchronization
Only provide in NW 7.1 or higher.
• Automatic Message Forwarding
Using Data Suppliers.
• Data Export/Import.
Manually-Not recommended.
• Using CTS.
In NW7.0 and complex.
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You can check in the SLD Log if the new connection start the replication process.(In
this sample don’t work because we use difference CIM Version ;-)).
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Select “Date” and “time” to filter to the report. Select all the Data older and Click
in Remove.
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Accept the warning and then the SLD clean the db.
If you go to HomeTechnical Systems you don’t found any more the old
information.
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If you go to expert Settings (Menu: Edit Expert Settings ) you can change the
parameters of the SLD Data Transfer.(Depend of witch Version you are running you
can Generate the Business Partners and the Systems form OSS). If you use more
than 1 SLD you leave the parameter SLD Host and Port blank.
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User Maintenance
To Control the User Maintenance you Goto: SMSY_SETUP Menu: GotoSLD User
Maintenance or run the transaction SLDAPICUST.
Here you can modify the User and password of the SLD Connection.
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Here you can add the new User/password for the SLD Connection.
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