What is SAP Landscape?

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What is SAP Landscape?

Answer 1

Landscape is like a server system or like a layout of the servers or some may even call it the architecture of the servers viz. SAP is divided into three different lanscape DEV, QAS and PROD.

- DEV would have multiple clients for ex: 190- Sandbox, 100- Golden, 180- Unit Test.
- QAS may again have mutiple clients for ex: 300- Integration Test, 700 to 710 Training.
- PROD may have something like a 200 Production.

These names and numbers are the implementer's discreet on how they want it or they have been using in their previous implementations or how is the client's business scenario.

Now whatever you do in the Sandbox doesn't affect the other servers or clients. Whenever you think you are satisfied with your configuration and you think you can use it moving forward, you RE-DO it in the golden client (remember, this is a very neat and clean client and you cannot use it for rough usage). As you re-do everything that you had thought was important and usable, you get a transport request pop up upon saving everytime. You save it under a transport request and give your description to it. Thus the configuration is transported to the Unit Test client (180 in this example).

You don't run any transaction or even use the SAP Easy Access screen on the 100 (golden) client. This is a configuration only client. Now upon a successful tranport by the Basis guy, you have all the configuration in the Testing client, just as it is in the Golden client. The configuration remains in sync between these two clients.

But in the Testing client you can not even access SPRO (Display IMG) screen. It's a transaction only client where you perform the unit test. Upon a satisfactory unit test, you move the good configuration to the next SERVER (DEV). The incorrect or unsatisfactory configuration is corrected in Golden (may again as well be practised in the sandbox prior to Golden) and accordingly transported back to 180 (Unit Test) until the unit test affected by that particular config is satisfactory.

The Golden client remains the 'database' (if you wanna call it that) or you may rather call it the 'ultimate' reference client for all the good, complete and final configuration that is being used in the implementation.

Answer 2

Sap System Landscape

Answer 3

You should check the SAP help portal.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/42/c099d518cf1d66e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

Landscapes Locate the document in its SAP Library structure
Definition

A landscape represents a logical, complex system, which consists of multiple, distributed components. Some of these components may be systems; others may be services, installed products, or other managed elements.

The following types of landscapes are defined in the SLD:

· Administration

A system landscape, which is created for administration purposes, for example, for common monitoring.

· General

A system landscape, which can contain all types of application systems.

· NWDI Systems

A system landscape that contains servers of the NWDI. The NWDI consists of a local client – the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and some logical servers for processes like source management, build tasks, transport, and name reservation. All servers work together and require a common user base together with the IDE.

· Scenario

A system landscape that is created for a specific business scenario. Scenario landscapes are used in the Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver.

· Transport

A system landscape that 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

A system landscape that 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.
Use

You can use the landscapes view to perform the following tasks:

· Create and remove landscapes

· Add and remove systems to and from landscapes

· Create and remove hosted systems

· Add and remove sub-landscapes to and from landscapes

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Not completely sure about this one