Ø What is Maintenance Planner
Maintenance planner is a solution hosted by SAP that helps you plan and maintain systems in your landscape. You can plan complex activities like installing a new system or updating existing systems. All changes can be scheduled to be deployed at a convenient time, to minimize downtime.
Maintenance planner is the successor of Maintenance Optimizer, Landscape Planner and Product System
Editor. It simplifies the maintenance process by consolidating critical tasks such as definition of product
maintenance dependencies, implementing changes by generating stack configuration, downloading archives,
and so on, in one tool.
With maintenance planner, you can plan system installation, update, upgrade or system conversion. You can analyze the impact of dependent systems or create dependencies in the form of system tracks. Additionally, you may also use the maintenance planner for creating an integration plan for cloud or hybrid landscapes, which can then be executed by Cloud Integration Automation Service.
Ø Pre-requisites to access Maintenance Planner
1. You have Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge browser in your system.
2. Your SAP Solution Manager system has release 7.1 SP05 or above
3. Ensure that you have an S-user for the SAP Support Portal.
4. Your user in SAP Solution Manager must be assigned to your s-user for the SAP Service Marketplace
Ø Architecture of Maintenance Planner
1. For SAP System Data is sent to the System Landscape Directory (SLD).
2. Data from SLD is synchronized with the Landscape Management Database (LMDB).
3. Data from LMDB is uploaded to SAP Support Portal.
4. The SID of the uploading SAP Solution Manager is stored with the data.
Ø How to access Maintenance Planner
1. Go to https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/mp or go to ONE Support Launchpad, choose
the Maintenance Planner tile under the On Premise section.
2. Log in with your SAP credentials (S user)
3. One customer number can be assigned to multiple S-users. Use the S-user with the same customer number on SAP Solution Manager and SAP Service Marketplace.
Ø Some major Limitations of Maintenance Planner
1. Maintenance Planner currently only supports English as a language.
2. The undeployment of Java product Instance Adobe Document Services is not supported as of now
3. In some situations, the result of auto-correction measures are incorrect
4. The product maintenance dependencies created in Maintenance Planner are currently overwritten by the product system definition uploaded from LMDB.
5.For distributed JAVA environment, only the database host is displayed in Explore Systems view, in column HOST, which should show up the central instance host.
6. The technical systems which are ramp down or deleted from LMDB need to be deleted manually in Maintenance Planner. Currently, there is no automatic synchronizations between LMDB and MP for removing deleted systems.
7. Limitation in recognizing systems with unassigned product instances
8. Limitation in using tracks, and copy stack XML for SAP S/4HANA conversion/upgrade planning
9. Limitation in using screen reader for Maintenance Planner user interface
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