A Hitchhiker’s Guide to SAP Landscape Management Cloud, Part 3: What Are the Required Configurations When Using SAP Landscape Management, Enterprise Edition?

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In this series of blog posts, I'd like to introduce the capabilities and related configurations of SAP Landscape Management Cloud. Each blog post will focus on a specific topic and will include a video to explain the scenario and necessary configuration steps.

You can find a list of all topics covered in our overview post.

In the video embedded in this blog, I will show which configurations are needed in SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition, how to set up the cloud connector as well as the initial onboarding of SAP Landscape Management Cloud.

 

Using SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition as your landscape agent

You can use SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition as your landscape agent as an alternative to the execution engine for SAP Landscape Management Cloud. You can find a video about the required configuration steps for SAP Landscape Management Cloud, execution engine in this blog post.

 

What is a landscape agent?

When using SAP Landscape Management Cloud, you can either use the enterprise edition of SAP Landscape Management or the execution engine for SAP Landscape Management Cloud as the landscape agent. The purpose of it is to receive API calls from SAP Landscape Management Cloud to trigger the start or stop of SAP systems, SAP instances, or virtual machines (VMs) according to set patterns.

Besides the known capabilities of SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition (which you can find details of here ), in the context of SAP Landscape Management Cloud it can:

• Replicate configured SAP systems and pools to SAP Landscape Management Cloud


• Execute operations on landscape entities


• Collect monitoring information

Let’s use an example to explain its usage:

Assuming we have created a pattern to start an SAP system and its VMs at 6.00 a.m. and stop them at 10.00 p.m. The components shown in Figure 1 would work together as follows:

6:00 a.m.:

• SAP Landscape Management Cloud sends an API call to SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition to trigger the start of the VMs of the SAP system followed by the database and SAP instances.

10:00 pm:

• SAP Landscape Management Cloud sends an API call to SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition to trigger the graceful stop of the SAP system, stop the database, and then stop the respective VMs.

Figure 1: Involved Components – SAP Landscape Management Cloud and SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition

 

Required steps to set up SAP Landscape Management Cloud using SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition

 This video explains the following key steps:

• Necessary configuration in SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition


• Configuration of the cloud connector


• Onboarding process for SAP Landscape Management Cloud

 

Summary

 The setup of SAP Landscape Management Cloud requires:

• Setup of the SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition in your landscape for system discovery, executing operations and collecting monitoring information.


• Configuring the cloud connector to establish a secure connectivity between the SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition and SAP Landscape Management Cloud


• Perform initial onboarding of SAP Landscape Management Cloud

As an alternative to SAP Landscape Management, enterprise edition you can also choose the SAP Landscape Management Cloud, execution engine and set it up as described in this post.

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You will also find each post of this series collected in this link, once each post is published.

In case of questions regarding SAP Landscape Management Cloud you can post them either in our Questions and Answers section or right below this blog post.

 

Additional links

Community Page

Questions and Answers about SAP Landscape Management Cloud

Product video

Product page

SAP Help Portal – SAP Landscape Management

SAP Help Portal - SAP Landscape Management Cloud

SAP Help Portal – SAP Landscape Management Cloud, execution engine

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