Hour 15. System Administration

Administration, maintenance, and ongoing management of your SAP system are crucial. Administration includes monitoring for availability, user administration and basic authorizations, and other fundamental technical administrative functions of your system. Note that performance management is not covered here; an entire hour dedicated to optimizing SAP from a performance perspective has been composed (see “Hour 16, “Systems and Performance Management”).

Meanwhile, highlights of this hour include

• Discovering system monitoring

• Introduction to the SAP System Log

• Introduction to SAP CCMS

• Reviewing basic authorization concepts