Roles & Responsibilities of BASIS Consultant

 SAP Basis consultant should able to do the following tasks:-

Ø  SAP application server monitoring, ABAP dump and system log analysis.

Ø  Performance tuning

Ø  Database maintenance , Database backup schedule and restore

Ø  R/3 solution manager installation, etc.

Ø  SAP license maintenance.

Ø  SAP landscape, transport management system installations, etc.

Ø  Client creating, client copying, client deletion, etc.

Ø  Creating user, assigning roles , locking and unlocking users,etc

Ø  Background jobs scheduling, job monitoring, job deletion, etc.

Ø  Profile and operation mode maintenance

Ø  Applying support patches, upgrading and installing add-ons

Ø  SNOTE applying and removing errors.

Ø  System copy, System refresh, etc.

 SAP SYSTEM LANDSCAPE

     Clients & Their Role

Ø  A client is organizational and legal entity in the sap system. All the business management data is protected here because other clients cannot access them.

Ø  The main objective of the client is to keep the data isolated.

Ø  The data in a client can be only visible within that client.

Ø  A client has its own separate master records and own set of "tables"

v  Each system has a specific role within the system landscape and there is a configuration for each role. As well, each client in a system has its own settings.

System Settings in a Two-System Landscape

Ø  Development system(DEV)

Ø  Production System(PRD)

v  The client settings define the Customizing and development functions in the SAP System

  Description of Clients in the Development System DEV (Two-System Landscape)

Ø  000: SAP standard

This client is used to set up new "neutral" clients by client copy. Do not change or delete this client.

Ø  001: SAP standard

This client is used to set up new "neutral” clients by client copy. Do not change or delete client 000 or client 001.

Ø  066: Early Watch

This client is purely a service client that enables SAP to access remotely the customer system with regard to analyzing errors and performance. You must not change or delete this client.

Do not change or delete this client.

Ø  100 : sandbox

Changes and transport for client specific object is set for option 4 which restrict this client to make

Changes without automatic recording and no transport allowed.

Ø  110 : ABAP

Ø  The best practice while creating ABAP client is to assign option 2 which is cross client object –allowed to make changes.

Ø  120 : Golden client

Ø  The best practices while creating Golden client is to set option 2 for client specific object and that’s automatic recording of changes. This client is considered as neat and clean client and only well configured objects are kept into this client.

Client Roles

 This attribute indicates the role of the client in your R/3 system.

 Possible roles are:

1.      Production client

2.      Test client

3.      Training client

4.      Demo client

5.      Customizing client

6.      SAP reference client

 This field should be maintained by the customer for documentary

 Purposes. It is particularly important for the production client.

 Production clients and SAP reference clients are protected from the

 Client copy tools, including "Copy by Transport Request"

 (Transaction SCC1).

 There is corresponding protection from the automatic Customizing

 Distribution and other tools.

 In a production client, customizing settings that can be maintained

 As "current settings" are excluded from a client lock or transport

 Connection; this means current settings (e.g. exchange rates,

 Posting periods) can always be maintained in a productive client

 Without recording changes. Other clients usually require a transport

 Request.