A properly installed SAP Solution Manager system and the Maintenance Planner are required to generate the XML file.
In any scenario, the Maintenance Planner must be used.
Select the SAP systems to be maintained:
- It's possible to select one single SAP system.
- A complete SAP system landscape can also be selected, for example, development (DEV), quality assurance (QAS), production (PRD).
- If there are dependencies between different SAP systems, for example, SAP ECC and SAP Enterprise Portal (EP), these can be selected in one step.
See https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/mp for further information.
The tasks performed in the Maintenance Planner are the following:
- If there are multiple SAP Solution Manager systems, synchronize the SAP system information.
- Verify the SAP systems.
- Optionally, define an SAP system track.
- Plan the software change.
- Schedule deployment.