SAP SYSTEM COPY AUTOMATION

Anwendertage
 Pain Questions

How long does your System Copy process take?

How often do you perform the System Copy process?

Are you increasing the frequency of this process?

How many people/teams are involved in the process?

How much is this costing you?

How many projects are delayed due to the System Copy process?

What types of projects are delayed?

How does this impact the business?

 Challenges

Highly Sheer number of steps & people,

manual order of the tasks, landscape complexity

Error Hundreds or thousands of steps

prone + databases, infrastructure, security

Fragmented Internal & external people, multiple IT

resources departments, constant communication
 Drivers to Change

More frequent
New projects, test systems, migrations,
and complex
upgrades, disaster recovery
copies

Finite System copy eats up the resources

resources needed for critical projects

Fewer resources, less time, smaller

Cost
budgets
 End-to-End Automation

Production System
Production System Preparation Execute Copy Verification
(cloned)

Copy of SAP
SAP system
Automate pre-copy Automate post copy production system
identified for copy Core Copy
requirements requirements running and
or cloning
available for use
 Automating System Copy

Template based design

Automate pre- and post-refresh tasks

Complete detail view of each step in the process

Dashboard for a quick overview

 Fortune 500 Industrial Supply Company

Before After
 14 days  5 days
 13-15 people, 20 man-  8 people, 2 hours total
hours per day per day
 Q&A system only, and  More thorough, more
only once a year accurate, more often
 Procedures on  87% of procedures are
paper checklist automated

“We immediately saw a huge difference”

 How it works

1. Initialization
1. Initialization

Export
Redwood
System 2. Preprocessing
Copy File
SAP SAP
System
(source) (target)

Import
4. Postprocessing

3. Copy

Database Database
SAP system refresh process

Done ☺
 Pre-processing

Save system data

Logical systems

Logon groups

RFC destinations (with passwords)

User master

SLD

TMS

qRFC

ALE configuration

SECSTORE

….
 Post-processing 1/4

Import preserved data into the SAP system

Logical systems

Logon groups

RFC destinations

User master

SLD

TMS

qRFC

ALE configuration

SECSTORE

….
 Post-processing 2/4

BDLS

Prepare database for BDLS

Test logical systems

Convert logical systems

Reconfigure database
 Post-processing 3/4

Clean up the SAP system

Batch jobs

Joblogs

TemSe

Dumps

Output devices

…
 Post-processing 4/4

Configure the system

Open/close clients

Set login screen

Create system message
Configuration Overview
System Configuration
Refresh in Acton
Refresh in Process Monitor
Landscape Refresh
Demo
 Benefits

Fast

Reliable

Repeatable

Consistent

Automatic notifications / Alerting
 Value

Redwood SAP System Copy Automation Value

Reduced Risk

Eliminate manual actions

Less potential for errors

Higher Quality of Service

Transparent SAP System Copy process

Consistent process – every copied system will look the same

Better Cost Efficiency

More efficient use of computing resources

More efficient use of manpower

Faster SAP System Copy process

Individual copies are executed faster

Synchronized copies of entire SAP landscapes are possible
 SAP System Copy - PAM

Linux/Unix Windows ABAP

Oracle Native/JDBC JDBC BW

MS SQL JDBC PI

DB2 Native/JDBC JDBC Java

MaxDB JDBC JDBC Trex

Sybase JDBC JDBC LiveCache
HANA JDBC JDBC BO

• All SAP databases are supported, including DB2/zOS Supported

• All SAP ABAP stacks are supported, including BW on HANA Planned

Not supported

N/A
 Questions?

Thank you!