Conceptual support for the architecture of system landscapes
SPAM/SAINT - the update tools integrated in ABAP
An SAP HANA system lives on applications. When you develop these applications, you should think about securing them early. Using HTTPS instead of HTTP is one of the basics. In addition, you ensure secure authentication and implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle to ensure backup in your own developments. In your applications, you better start to check them for risks early on and run this backup process regularly. You can analyse and restrict access to source code later. Create a risk register and address security vulnerabilities in a risk-based manner. The later you discover a risk, the more expensive the fix will be. Further information on SAP Security in addition to the article can be found here. Do you have any further questions or suggestions concerning this topic? Would you like us to go further on the subject? I look forward to your feedback!
Due to the technology diversity, including in the SAP product portfolio, the support by a single silo unit SAP basis is almost impossible. Likewise, there are many activities that are located for historical reasons in the SAP basis and in parallel in the non-SAP area. In this respect, the separation between SAP and Non-SAP must be examined and, if possible, eliminated by standardisation, integration and centralisation. For example, the issue of output management can be set up in a team that has knowledge in the SAP printing area as well as in the non-SAP printing area and has contact points in the SAP basis. From the SAP basis, tools must be made available to the non-SAP areas to support them in their work in the SAP environment.
Migration
Once you sent the money person A and once person B. Which miner is right now? The solution is to divide the consensus into time blocks, in which a miner is randomly selected, and then determine which transaction it has selected as the consensus during this block. The transactions are stored in blocks of the chain. Only a limited number of transactions fit into each block. The miner, which solves the last transaction of a block before a new one is generated, also gets a bitcoin as a reward.
Understanding the structure and functioning of the system is especially important for IT administration. It is not for nothing that "SAP Basis Administrator" is a separate professional field. On the page www.sap-corner.de you will find useful information on this topic.
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Finally, the presentation layer contains software components for the graphical presentation of the application. It thus forms the interface to the users (GUI).
For administrators, a useful product - "Shortcut for SAP Systems" - is available in the SAP basis area.
Transporting transport orders from one system line to another or importing third-party transport orders into the SAP system is also an occasional task for an SAP basis administrator.
And most Basis administrators only used it at all because SAP virtually forced them to use SolMan to download updates.