SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Administration

Explore SAP support offerings - standard, enterprise, and max attention - and how solution manager links with the service marketplace to support your landscape with continuous quality checks and custom code management.

Explore SAP Solution Manager 7.2's application lifecycle management, detailing the six phases: requirements, design, build and test, deploy, operate, optimize, and processes like solution documentation and IT service management.

Explore tools and integration in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 administration, highlighting enhanced solution documentation, the Activate methodology and agile methodology, test management, ITSM, and landscape transformation with SLT and TDMS.

Analyze SAP Solution Manager architecture and landscape, detailing SAP NetWeaver ABAP and Unicode ABAP. Compare single, two, and three-system landscapes for development, QA, and production, including CA introscope adapter.

Explore SAP solution manager's agent landscape infrastructure, detailing diagnostic and host agents, ST-A/PI and ST-PI extractors, the CA Introscope APM, and data flow to the enterprise manager and CCDB.

Explore sizing an SAP solution manager system by evaluating CPU, memory, and I/O needs across ITSM and ChaRM scenarios, considering managed systems and data volume with quick sizer.

Learn to install SAP solution manager 7.2 ABAP (and optional Java) using SWPM, plan with maintenance planner, size hardware, set up ASE database, and verify system via SAP GUI.

Install SAP Solution Manager Java on the same host as ABAP using SWPM and sapinst, configure SAPJVM, adjust limits.conf, and set up J2EE users to complete a java netweaver setup.

Understand how the SLD serves as the central repository for landscape data in SAP Solution Manager 7.2, enabling CIM standards, data suppliers, automated imports, and lifecycle management across SAP tools.

Explore how the landscape management database (LMDB) stores CIM model data and CR content from SLD and the SAP software catalog for maintenance planning. Automate SLD to LMDB synchronization.

Add the Java instance to the system landscape directory (SLD) in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 using NWA and a wizard. Use Visual Administrator to complete the integration.

Learn essential prerequisites for SAP solution manager configuration, including updating the CR content via SLD, configuring transport management, creating technical S-Users, and backbone connectivity guidance.

Explore guided procedures for SAP solution manager configuration via the SOLMAN_SETUP wizard, covering system preparation, infrastructure and basic configuration, managed systems, road maps, and manual versus automatic activities.

Learn how to perform SAP solution manager system preparation via the guided SOLMAN_SETUP, including defining system roles, prerequisites checks, SAP connections, corrections, and technical users.

Learn how to prepare the SAP Solution Manager infrastructure through landscape management, setting up LMDB and SLD connections, and configuring CR content synchronization.

Install the diagnostic agent and configure connectivity in SAP Solution Manager, including HTTP/HTTPS setup, web dispatcher, Java RFC/JCo, single sign-on, and basic BW environment.

Install and configure apm introscope in sap solution manager 7.2, define the enterprise manager, set permissions, start the service, and connect via solman_setup for introscope discovery.

Configure email communication and SAP Connect in SAP Solution Manager for alerts with encryption. Enable gateway services and set up CRM basics, recipient pools, LDAP and SMS for Fiori.

Learn the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 basic configuration, including enabling basic functions, scheduling jobs, manual setup, and creating basic dialogue users for essential operations.

Learn to configure managed systems in SAP solution manager using SOLMAN_SETUP, linking SLD and LMDB, and establishing RFCs, diagnostic agents, and cloud services for ABAP, Java, and non-SAP systems.

Explore automated configuration in SAP Solution Manager, synchronizing SLD to LMDB, sending notifications, and performing automated decommissioning and lifecycle cleanup to adapt to dynamic landscapes.

Unlock usage logging in SAP Solution Manager by logging ABAP programs, function modules, and dynamic ABAP events with UPL or SCMON, then configure and activate capture to BW info cubes.

Explore SAP solution manager 7.2 user interfaces, including SAP Fiori launchpad, NWBC, and the solution manager work center; learn how Fiori boosts productivity, personalization, and role-based screens across platforms.

Develop and implement a robust SAP solution manager authorization concept using template roles and a seven-step approach. Manage users via the solution manager launchpad and the user administration tools.

Explore the business partner concept in SAP Solution Manager, including types like sold-to-party, support team, and company employee, and how BP_Gen generates partners from user master.

Learn how to use solution administration (SOLADM, sm_workcenter) in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 to create and manage solutions, landscapes, logical component groups, branches, and libraries.

Learn how SAP solution manager 7.2 uses solution documentation to navigate via sm_workcenter, manage embedded search, and support multi-level hierarchies across production, maintenance, and development.