Solution Manager 7.1 SP5 – the Technical Side

On twitter we saw that Solution Manager 7.1 SP5 is planned to be available June 11th

Below are notes from an ASUG webcast I attended with SAP’s John Krakowski , SAP Product Management, covering the “Technical Side” of Solution Manager 7.1 SP5

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John said there is a commitment to support SAP Hana in a proactive monitoring fashion.  In SP4 there is some monitoring – see this blog for details.  SP5 will provide full integration of SLT and Data Services

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SP4 has root cause support for SUP 2.1

SP5 support for SUP 2.11 and Gateway 2.0 End to End Trace analysis and system monitoring

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Figure 3 shows the backbone roadmap,

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System monitoring will be available via the iPad and upcoming will be viewing on SmartPhone/Android as well

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Figure 5 shows management dashboards, which are Xcelsius based.  With Enterprise Support the pre delivered management dashboards are available. You do not need a separate BusinessObjects license for these dashboards.  If you want to develop your own dashboards you will need a license

Figure 5 shows the additional dashboards provided

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Figure 6 shows “Interactive Continuous Improvement”.  John said this will allow you a deep dive into technical data in your landscape.

As adding more uses, or changes, continuous improvement will show you the impacts of these changes

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On the business process side, additional items planned are benchmarking, trend, age and enhanced filter functionality to “slice and dice”

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Figure 8 shows a sample; you need business process monitoring configured to show this.

A complete Solution Manager Roadmap 7.1 SP5  is available for download on Service MarketPlace (SMP logon required) at https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/011000358700000446572012E/