About SLD

[Former Member]

Hi everybody,

Please tell me about SLD and also about poducts,software catalogs.,

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

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.

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).

To have complete information about SLD, please check the help file on your SLD homepage by going on this link:

http://<; xiserver name or IP Address>:< J2EE Port >/sld/doc/sld.pdf

Regards,

Subhasha

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh ,

Please refer following links ,

SLD Data

Discovering SLDPART 1---/people/naveen.kumarh/blog/2007/02/28/discovering-sld-part-1

Discovering SLD-PART 2------/people/naveen.kumarh/blog/2007/02/28/discovering-sld-part-2

Thanks ,

Suvarna

Award pts if it helps .

[Former Member]

Rajesh,

First you have to create product attach it to software component and assign technical system to the SWC and business system to this technical system. Then import this SWC into IR. Thats it. Not much rocket sceince there.

Check this weblog and docuemnt on this:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9e76e511-0d01-0010-5c9d-9f768d64...

/people/naveen.kumarh/blog/2007/02/28/discovering-sld-part-1

/people/srinivas.vanamala2/blog/2007/02/05/step-by-step-guide-xml-file-2-xml-file-scenario-part-i

---Satish

[agasthuri_doss]

Hi,

Software Component: Represents a collection of all versions of a software component.Software components represent the reusable modules of a product. They can beupgraded or have patches installed.

Software Component Version: Represents a particular version of a software

component.

All design works in IR is organized by Software Component Version. This make sense, as interfaces logically belongs to a software component and to a particular version. Before development can begin, the software component versions(SWCVs) must be imported from the SLD to IR.

Product:

A software product is composed of one or more software components.

It represents a collection of all versions of a product. A product is a unit that

can be delivered, is visible to the customer, and that is installable and renewable.

This will help you

Just go thru following SAP link. for understanding of SLD objects.

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

/people/sap.india5/blog/2005/11/03/xi-software-logistics-1-sld-preparation

Regards

Agasthuri Doss

[agasthuri_doss]

Hi,

SLD (system Landscape Directory) is a central repository of information about systems and software in the data center.

so talking about the working of an SLD, here if any information is required for the integration server regarding the systems(logical or physical) and the software (installed products) it refers to the SLD. To tell you about the other features it has....it captures the dimensions of the system landscape like solution dimension, transport dimension and technical dimension. we assign a technical system to a business system to help the SLD make the appropriate association.The software products used by the business system are got from the technical system definition.

Regards

Agasthuri Doss