GRC and Solution Manager Landscape Best Practices Question

[Former Member]

Hello,

We are in the design phase for an SAP GRC project. The question we are debating is whether or not GRC should be installed on the Solution Manager box.

My inclination is to have them on the system since they are both "IT" tools. Are there any recommendations on whether they should be installed together or separately? What are the pros/cons of each?

Thank you.

[Former Member]

If you are talking about GRC Access control 5.X.

I believe its suppose to be installed as a seperate box and should install the RTA's on all systems you want to include for doing risk analysis or user provisioning or role management.

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BPX/Governance%2C%20Risk%2C%20and%20Compliance%20%28GRC%29%20H...

[sdipanjan]

Though these are IT Tools in technical essence from SAP, but have different prospects and usage. So, try not to use same box as GRC takes higher systems resources in some specific types of activities (for e.g. during synchronization of Tables containing Authorization details of GRC application and SAP) and will create serious problem for Solman. Because Solman also runs many applications as per it's various usage (depending on the usage you are going to configure).

Regards,

Dipanjan

[Former Member]

SAP´s general recommendation is to use single-stack systems.

GRC is a JAVA system and SolMan a bit of a hybrid (together with PI) but still more ABAP than Java IMO.

Rather follow SAP´s advise and install a GRC Java instance on it´s own.

(also if the Java system causes the whole server to reboot for whatever system, you would not want your SolMan to go down with it

Cheers,

Julius