SAP Solution manager consists of various infrastructure components- application management solution, and complete IT landscape. The solution discovers - technical monitoring and alerting infrastructure, system landscape information, integration of Solution Manager with SAP IT Infrastructure.
You can check all configured Solutions in the system. Using solution, you bundle the system and processes as per the requirement to monitor the operation.
This tool of GPA is used to view instances, logs, and to export to HTML, and start new instance. You can access Guided Procedure Log from GP Browser for the selected scope and for the selected guided procedure.
When a Change request is approved by Change Manager/ Person Responsible to validate and approve change, change document is created automatically in the system and the status of document is marked as being implemented.
A Change document structure consists of the following components:
Header Level: It is used to store general data like developer ID, reference object details, project name for which change is created, and other information.
Assignment Blocks: It contains the data required for processing of change request. This includes information about, processing log files, transport requests, details of project/solution, incident, and the information about the test management.
Planning Downtime
Technical work mode is defined as work mode during which the system is technically down and you do not have access. System administrators can use this work mode to perform planned administration tasks that can only be performed during downtime.
Maintenance Mode
Work mode during which the system is technically up and you have no access. System administrators can use this work mode to perform planned administration tasks that can only be performed during maintenance.
GPA user is required to create custom guided procedures. Using GPA user, you can perform:
This user is required to perform single or periodic operation activities and to check the status of all the activities using GP log book.
Guided procedures in solution Manager can be used to achieve following benefits:
Guided Procedure Authoring provides set of tools- Browser, Guided procedure logbook to create guided procedure for activities that are performed periodically. Guided procedures are executed in different scopes- technical system, host and databases and for different application areas.
In SAP Solution Manager, using template management you can create templates at global level – for blueprint documents, business scenarios, and configuration and they can be distributed. The templates can be reused in other projects and solutions.
This directory contains the information about landscape and software component versions. A SAP system can be configured to register under SLD. System Landscape Directory (SLD) manages information about all installable and installed elements of your system landscape.
In SAP Solution Manager, you can perform the test management process centrally and execute tests for cross system business processes.
In SAP Solution Management infrastructure, you can use Landscape Management Database (LMDB) which is central landscape information repository and it uses the same information as the System Landscape Directory SLD to enter the system information.
You can use various work modes in SAP Solution Manager to perform the following activities:
This tool is used to execute a guided procedure, to check status of execution. When you open a Guided Procedure in GP Browser UI or you can select preview in Guided Procedure Maintenance, it opens the guided procedure runtime UI and you can execute GP.
Below one opens SAP Solution Manager in a Web Browser.
You can use filtering section to filter the logs. It is also possible to export the logs to different formats- Excel, HTML, etc.
This is used to manage central access to all functions for administrative tasks.
This allows you to distribute changes in ABAP and non ABAP objects. You use central Change and Transport system to perform the changes.
Required roles under IT Task Planning:
No, to use the Work Mode Management reporting functionalities, Monitoring and Reporting has to be enabled for the managed systems.
To run Work Center home screen, use T-Code:
SOLMAN_WORKCENTER.
This allows you to plan IT tasks and visualize plan task in task inbox for processes. You can execute these tasks from task inbox.
The following types of business work modes can be used:
Using Transaction code: GPA_ADMIN or from a work center.
Required Roles under GPA user:
This is used to create a template that defines the project structure or some part of your project. Templates can also be used in other projects using transporting the template. It is also possible to lock templates against the changes- either completely or partially when they are used in other projects.
To perform role specific functions, you can use Work Centers in SAP Solution Manager. Work Centers are work environments that allows you to access role specific options. You can access different options like alerts, notifications, messages and reports as per the assigned role.
This option can be used to alert the customers when new content is available and it also propose to import it.
Integration between SAP Solman and IT infrastructure brings more advantages like:
GPA can be integrated with different application modules:
To create a change request, role SAP_CM_REQUESTER should be assigned.
This is required when you need a project to implement business processes in an SAP landscape.
You can select an existing structure based on business processes or you can also create a new project structure as per the following points :