SLD

[Former Member]

Hi

Please clarify my doubt ..

As per my knowledge SLD tells about the system landscape in a company(ex : different servers)

When we are doing configuration, we give source and target system address or whatever settings

What SLD differs from this configuration??

Why SLD useful other than just to see what are the different servers available in a company?

Thanks in advance.

[moorthy · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Go thru this doc-this has all info

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fe/39ae3d47afd652e10000000a114084/content.htm

Rdgs,

Moorthy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

<i>What SLD differs from this configuration??</i>

SLD contains the details of system Landscape of your company. These are logical defination and not actual definition. The parameters details are provided in the adapter itself.

SLD helps in understanding all the systems present is your landscape

<i>Why SLD useful other than just to see what are the different servers available in a company?</i>

All the Gloabl Parameters are stored in the SLD

Regards

Vijaya

[STALANKI]

Sorry this blog /people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i will definetly clarify you.

[STALANKI]

Have u seen this blog /people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/01/26/throwing-smart-exceptions-in-xi-graphical-mapping

It clearly clarifies your doubts.

[Former Member]

Hi R K,

SLD provides many more services to complete the configuration.

The SAP System Landscape Directory (SLD) is the central information provider in a system landscape.

The SLD contains two types of information:

·

Component Information: This is information about all available SAP products and components, including their versions. If there are any third-party products in the system landscape, they are also registered here.
At design time(Integration Repository) of the integration objects, the component information is extracted from the SLD to define integration scenarios.

·

Landscape Description: This contains all installed systems in a system landscape. When a collaborative business process is configured, the landscape descriptions are needed to determine the system information of the business partners involved.

SLD is just one part required in the configuration scenario. Configuration is used in broader scenario which consists of SLD,IR,ID and RWB. SLD is the very first step that a XI person has to do for configuring or for integration of data.

Warm Regards,

Subhasha

[Former Member]

Hi,

We define the System Landscape & Software catalog in the SLD. The Software components defined here are used in the design time in the Integration Repository & System catalog is used in the Integration Directory during configuration.

In Software catalog, We create

1. Products

2. Software Components

The Software components created are associated to a Product.

The Software components created are imported into the Integration Repository. It acts as the container for all the developments.

In the Landscape we define the

1. Technical system - It is the physical view

2. Business system - It is logical view, there can be more than one Business system for a Technical system. In Case R/3 , if there are 3 clients installed in system, then we will be creating a 1 Technical system & 3 Business systems.

The Business systems defined here are used in the Integration Directory at the configuration time.

Without SLD defination it is not possible to use XI

With regards

K.varadharajan

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[Former Member]

SLD gives you technical and business systems available in your company. You need this information in configuring any scenario. SLD technical and business systems just logical systems where you dont give any connection parameters like host name, port etc but when you use this logical systems in configuration there you specify the actual connection parameters.

--Archana

[Former Member]

HI RK,

The main advantage of having SLD is, target systems are "Loosely Coupled" this is the major advantage of Xi, Systems are determined in the runtime, also maintainance is easy using SLD.

Cheers,

Nagesh........

[Former Member]

Hi,

Yes, SLD is almost a view of all systems related to each other in the company, but SLD has some other uses too.

We define usage dependies in a SLD.

Assign Transport targets, create and maintain Business systems that is used in many scenarios(as a part of configuration).

Regards,

P.Venkat