Solution Manager - Overview

Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with NagiosSAP Solution Manager is a tool, which assists in application management as per ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) environment. The tool supports the entire lifecycle of solution mainly having six phases – Requirements, Design, Build, Deploy, Operate & Optimize as per ITIL standard.
It runs in a separate central system to which all the other SAP systems are connected. These other systems are called as Satellite Systems.

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Features of SAP Solution Manager:

· Solution Manager helps in all types of project management like Implementation, Upgrade, Maintenance, Rollout etc. by providing the project specific template.
· It is in line with SAP’s AcceleratedSAP. And provide Roadmaps for the different types of projects.
· It has Business Process Repository, which talks about SAP’s best practice of running the business.
· It has eLearning feature, which offers the training along with feedback over web.
· It has test management feature, which offers the central storage repository for storing the automated eCATT scripts along with manual scripts. The results of testing are centrally stored and always available.
· It has its own standard Helpdesk feature, which is both SAPGUI based and web based.
· The Helpdesk feature is totally linked with Change Request Management, which helps in transport for changes required in production issues.
· It has Solution Monitoring as well as Diagnostic feature, which helps in Operation Phase of project.
· Solution Manager has lots of inbuilt reports, which server the different areas of it.
· It is linked with SAP Service Market Place.
· It can generate Installation/Upgrade key.
· It has its own Knowledge Warehouse for central documentation storage.
· It can integrate with ARIS, a detailed graphical business process modeling tool
· It can also integrate with Mercury tools like QTP for testing in web based environment.

AcceleratedSAP (ASAP) Roadmaps:
AcceleratedSAP Roadmaps are the proven procedures for Project Management. Roadmaps provide a methodology for the executing successful SAP projects of any kind like Implementation, Upgrade & Global Rollout. The methodology has a defined framework for different kinds of projects and has lots of tools, services etc. Special Accelerators are available in Roadmap structure, which help in following the best offered practices of project management and hence accelerates the speed of project. Accelerators are in terms of templates, examples, documentation, links etc.

Transaction Codes involved in Roadmaps:
· For launching Roadmap: RMMAIN
· For creating Custom Roadmaps(without structure change): RMDEF
Using this option, one can use copy of SAP’s roadmaps with custom contents. No changes can be made to the structure of the roadmap. Only header data like name & attributes (flavors, roles & subject areas) can be defined.
· For creating Custom Roadmaps(with structure change &; entry screen): RMAUTH
Using this option, one can define his own structure of roadmap or make changes to copied structure of standard roadmap. The documentation created or changed in terms of accelerators or so is stored in SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Warehouse.
Though the feature is given to create a new or modify copied standard roadmaps, one should be careful in using the custom functionality here. As SAP releases new roadmap, it may become difficult to adjust those parameters in custom roadmaps. So it is recommended to strictly keep track of all changes in standard roadmap and then change the custom roadmap accordingly.