SAP - Basis

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This chapter explains the following topics −

• the role of a BASIS Administrator,
• tasks related to SAP BASIS Administration, and
• categorization of SAP Administrative tasks.

We can subdivide the roles of a SAP BASIS Consultant into the following categories −

Server Administrator

• Interface Analyst
• Solution Specialist
• System Architect

Network Administrator

• Transport Administrator
• Batch Administrator

Database Administrator

• Security Specialist
• ABAP Specialist
• DDIC Manager

OS Administrator

• SAP DBA
• System Administrator

Roles of a SAP BASIS Consultant

The following illustration depicts the typical roles performed by a SAP BASIS Consultant −

Tasks Performed under Different Roles

We can further categorize the tasks performed under different roles −

System Architect

• Sizing SAP systems
• Design SAP landscape

Transport Administrator

• Change control across SAP landscape

Batch Administrator

• Create and manage batch jobs across landscape

Security Specialist

• Design, monitor, and manage access to SAP landscape

ABAP Specialist

• Troubleshoot and tune ABAP programs
• Apply correction to program

DDIC Manager

• Manage changes to SAP data dictionary

SAP DBA

• Manage integrity of SAP database objects
• Manage backups and restore

System Administrator

• Maintain system health
• Monitor and tune system performance

Interface Analyst

• Analyze and Monitor
• Interfaces within SAP landscape

Solutions Specialist

• Installation of AP / Add-On
• Migrate OS / DB
• Upgrade SAP version
• Archiving of SAP Data

SAP BASIS Administration Tasks

SAP BASIS administration tasks can be further categorized as follows −

SAP Administration

• Starting and stopping SAP instance(s)
• User administration – setup and maintenance
• Authorization / Role / Profiles – setup and maintenance
• Setup SAP security
• Maintenance of system’s health
• Monitor system performance and logs
• Spool and print administration
• Maintain system landscape
• Transport management systems
• Manage change requests
• Create / Manage batch jobs
• Backup schedule, run, and monitor backup of SAP
• Apply patches, kernel, and OSS notes

Database Administration

• Database Space Management
• Database Backup
• Database Recovery
• Database log (Redo log, Archive Log) management
• Database Performance Tunings

Operation System Administration

• Operation system security
• Operation system performance tuning
• OS space management
• OS level background job management
• OS level backup and recovery

Overall System Monitoring

• Monitoring R/3 servers and instances
• Monitoring users and authorizations
• Monitoring security part
• Monitoring workload analysis
• Monitoring processes
• Monitoring buffers
• Monitoring operating system
• Monitoring database
• Monitoring backups

SAP Administrator's Frequently Used Transactions

• SM04/AL08 − User List
• SM51 − Display Application Server
• SM37 − Background Job Overview
• SM50/SM66 − Manage Work Processes
• SM12 − Mange Lock Entries
• PFCG − Maintain Roles
• SM13 − Manage Update Records
• SM21 − Analyze System Log
• SM02 − Send System Messages