How to discover the SAP systems in an organization and the SAP application components installed on them?

Question

Hi All,

I am very new to SAP. Just been 3 days into learning SAP, but I have been given a task to do...please help me out.I have to discover all
the SAP systems present in my organization (System Landscape). Also, I have to get the information about the SAP application components installed in them, for instance CRM, SRM etc. Then I need to categorize the systems according to the SAP application components.For instance, CRM - s1,s2; SCM - s3, s4..etc. From my research I found that CCMS and SLD are 2 central repositories that contain such information (not sure though). However, for CCMS the remote repositories have to register themselves initially. What if one or more of them have not registered?? I somehow want to get the fool-proof information regarding all the systems whether they are registered or not. Also, is there any way I can view these System details on the SAP GUI?
Any ideas or suggestions regarding this please???
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

You could have a deep look to the SAP help portal: It is all there

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/31/f0ff69551e4f259fdad799a229363e/frameset.htm

The System Landscape Directory of SAP NetWeaver (SLD) serves as a central information repository for your system landscape. A system landscape consists of a number of hardware and software components that depend on each other with regard to installation, software updates, and demands on interfaces.

Note

Bear in mind that the abbreviation SLD is not intended to define a product, since the System Landscape Directory is part of SAP NetWeaver. This abbreviation is only intended to improve readability.
Integration

The figure below shows the flow of data between the SLD and other components.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

Information in the SLD is used by various SAP tools, for example, for planning and performing upgrades to the system landscape (Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver), finding destination information for ABAP systems and Web services (Web Dynpro), and for maintaining development information by the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).
Features

● The SLD stores information about all installable and installed components of a system landscape. It is based on the standard Common Information Model (CIM). The CIM standard is a general, extensible schema for describing the elements in a system landscape. SAP has enhanced the CIM standard with classes for SAP-specific content.

● SAP provides both a Web-based user interface (UI) for interactive access and client APIs for programmatic access in ABAP and Java.

● SAP provides information about installable SAP software, dependencies and recommended scenarios and regularly publishes updates on SAP Service Marketplace. You can browse this information in the software catalog views. You can also manually add information about third-party components to the SLD.

● SAP software components that are installed on technical systems are registered automatically and on a regular basis in the SLD. Thus the SLD always contains up-to-date information about the installed system landscape. You can view this information in the technical systems views, and can aggregate and group it in the landscapes views.

● In addition, you can use the SLD for name reservation in the NWDI. It contains the master list of all reserved names used in development, such as development component names, Java package names, and database object names.

● The Exchange Infrastructure (XI) uses the SLD to store information about business systems, which are logically connected to technical systems.
Additional Information

Caution

If you are reading this documentation offline, bear in mind that this might not be its latest version. You can find the latest version on SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com ® Documentation ® SAP NetWeaver ® SAP NetWeaver 2004s ®SAP NetWeaver Library ® SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability ®Solution Life Cycle Management by Key Capability ®Software Life Cycle Management ® System Landscape Directory.

For more information about different landscape scenarios, see SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/sld ® Media Library ® Planning Guide – System Landscape Directory.

For more information about the post-installation configuration of SLD, see SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/sld ® Media Library ® Post-Installation Guide – System Landscape Directory.



See also:

Regular Administrative Tasks

Configuring Systems to Connect to SLD

Answer 2

One word, Wikipedia

Answer 3

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