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Priti Dhingra
January 25, 2016 9 minute read
Maintenance Planner – Frequently Asked Questions

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This collection of frequently asked questions provides brief answers to common questions about Maintenance
Planner. If you don’t nd answer to your questions, please add them as comments.
Accessing Maintenance Planner

How do I access Maintenance Planner?
What are the authorizations required for accessing Maintenance Planner?
Prerequisites for using Maintenance Planner

What data does Maintenance Planner need?
Why don’t I see my systems in Maintenance Planner?
I see outdated data in Maintenance Planner.
Maintenance Planner and Related Tools

Which versions of SAP Solution Manager are supported?
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/01/25/maintenance-planner-frequently-asked-questions/ 1/35
Is SAP Solution Manager LMDB still needed?
Landscape Data
Security policies in my organization prevent me from creating RFC connections to OSS. What should I
do in this case?
What should I do if the same system appears multiple times in Maintenance Planner?
What are the most important considerations in case there are multiple productive SAP Solution
Manager systems in the landscape?
Does Maintenance Planner support value-added resellers?
How can I upload landscape data manually?
Do I need to create product systems in LMDB?
Correcting Landscape Data

How can I proceed with planning if a system is marked erroneous in Maintenance Planner?
What is the importance of the CISI xml le?
Dependency Management
What kind of dependencies are currently handled in Maintenance Planner?
How do I handle dependencies between connected systems where business processes are running
across the various systems?
What happens to the product systems already available in LMDB?
Miscellaneous
I see the planning cycle/screen even after I have just de ned my changes and con rmed it. Why?
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of new system installation?
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of new installation of dual stack systems?
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of SAP BW4/HANA System systems?
Which product instances are required for installation of SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration system?
How can I install SAP Fiori Apps with Maintenance Planner?
Switch framework components are not pre-selected in Maintenance Planner. Why?
How can I add HR Packages in Maintenance Planner?
How can I request side-e ects report?
While planning upgrade to EHP8 FOR SAP ERP 6.0, upgrade export DVD is missing from the download
basket?
Which Add-ons are supported by Maintenance Planner?
Support Related
How do I report problems with Maintenance Planner?
Accessing Maintenance Planner
How do I access Maintenance Planner?
The Maintenance Planner is a hosted applica on on SAP Support Portal and can be accessed with an up-to-date browser.
To access the tool:
• Go to https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/mp
• Login with your SAP credentials (S – user) to get access to landscape data for this user
What are the authorizations required for accessing Maintenance Planner?

You need an S-user for the SAP Service Marketplace (SMP). There is no separation of speci c roles in the
Maintenance Planner. For more information, refer SAP Note
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1822202
Prerequisites for using Maintenance Planner
What data does Maintenance Planner need?

Maintenance Planner consumes landscape data available on SAP Support Portal for all maintenance planning
activities, so up-to-date data on systems of your landscape needs to be available in the Customer Pro le in the
SAP Support Portal. It is uploaded via LMDB of SAP Solution Manager.
For details refer: Topology of SLD, LMDB, and Customer Pro le – How to Get Reliable Landscape Data in SAP
Support Portal as a Basis for Planning
Why don’t I see my systems in Maintenance Planner?

Perform following steps/checks:
Access to system data in the Maintenance Planner is based on the customer number assigned to your user
used to access the Maintenance Planner. This assignment may be missing or incomplete (your company
may even have more than one customer number.)
Your user in SAP Solution Manager must be assigned to your S-user for the SAP Service Marketplace.
The RFC used for uploading the technical system data to SAP Support Portal should be con gured to an
appropriate s-user mapped to the customer number
Check if the Landscape Fetch job is scheduled correctly. Refer SAP Note 1632036 for more information
If a speci c system is missing in Maintenance Planner, try uploading the data manually. To enable manual
upload apply SAP Note 2002546.
For more information, see Uploading, Accessing, and Trouble-Shooting System Data in the Customer Pro le
Used for Planning Changes in Your IT Landscape
I see outdated data in Maintenance Planner.

Perform following steps:
Check if the Landscape Fetch job is running, however, if the data in LMDB has not changed, then the data is
not updated.
Run reports RPT_CLEAR_SL_CACHE and AI_LMDB_MIG_OSS_SYNC_CONFIG, schedule the landscape fetch

job. The data will be updated during the next landscape fetch run.
Try uploading the data manually.
For more information, see Uploading, Accessing, and Trouble-Shooting System Data in the Customer Pro le
Used for Planning Changes in Your IT Landscape
Maintenance Planner and Related Tools
Which versions of SAP Solution Manager are supported?

SAP Solution Manager 7.01 SP 23 or above is supported, provided, you have installed SAP Note 1646604.
Please note that SAP Solution Manager 7.0 / 7.01 status is “In customer-speci c maintenance”.
Starting 7.1 SP5, SAP Solution Manager is supported as is.
Is SAP Solution Manager LMDB still needed?

Maintenance Planner consumes landscape data available on SAP Support Portal for all maintenance planning
activities. “Technical System Editor” of the LMDB is required where system data is automatically registered and
supplied to the customer pro le in SAP Support Portal.
Landscape Data
Security policies in my organization prevent me from creating RFC

connections to OSS. What should I do in this case?
In such a case the technical system information for ABAP systems will be uploaded by generating a
system_info.xml le from Support Package Manager (SPAM).Prerequisite: This is supported on SPAM version
59 or latest. Please check and upgrade SPAM version to 59 before you proceed.Perform the following steps:
1. In transaction SPAM, select Utilities -> Generate system info XML

2. Save the downloaded XML on your local system
3. Create an incident on the component BC-UPG-MP attaching the system info XML
What should I do if the same system appears multiple times in Maintenance

Planner?
First of all, check if the error is caused earlier in the process (in SLD or LMDB):
How-to Manage House-Cleaning in the System Landscape Directory – Duplicate System Entries.
How to Ensure Your Landscape Data is Up-to-Data – House-Keeping in the LMDB
SLD-LMDB Topology – Connections, Valid, and Invalid Data Exchange Between SLD and LMDB of SAP
Solution Manager
If the problem is not solved by that, Maintenance Planner o ers the functionality to delete irrelevant data.
Check the replication date, and based on this, you can decide to delete systems manually.Note that the deletion
of the system in LMDB does not su ce, you also have to delete it in MP separately.
What are the most important considerations in case there are multiple
productive SAP Solution Manager systems in the landscape?
If you have more than one SAP Solution Manager System, you can choose from which landscape data is to be
replicated on Maintenance Planner. In the system maintenance cycle, the Sync button is green if there exists
only one SAP Solution Manager and the same is chosen by default. If the Sync button is yellow, it indicates that
multiple Solution Managers are available. Perform the steps described in the user guide to select SAP Solution
Manager, from which landscape data is to be replicated on Maintenance Planner.
Does Maintenance Planner support value-added resellers?

Yes, Maintenance Planner handles all data available in the LMDB and uploaded to the Customer Pro le – please
refer to the following blog to learn how to handle landscape data of multiple customers: How-To Handle
Landscape Data as a Value-Added Reseller Using LMDB
How can I upload landscape data manually?

To manually upload the landscape data from Solution Manager to the customer pro le, you can go to LMDB and
click the Upload to SAP Support Portal button. Once this is done, system data will be immediately available on
Maintenance Planner.
Do I need to create product systems in LMDB?

Creation of product systems is no longer required for planning maintenance in Maintenance Planner as
Maintenance Planner lets you plan maintenance on technical systems. You can create dependencies – between
your SAP Business Suite backend systems and Portal front-end systems for example – directly in Maintenance
Planner.
Note: However, if you are using SAP Solution Manger 7.1 Scope and E ort Analyzer to estimate the test e ort
caused by a change or Change Request Management, product systems are still needed. For details, see Product
Systems and Maintenance Planner in SAP Solution Manager 7.1
Correcting Landscape Data
How can I proceed with planning if a system is marked erroneous in

Maintenance Planner?
An erroneous system is indicated in red in the maintenance cycle. If system is marked erroneous you rst have to
verify and provide the information required to correct the installed software information/details. Once the Verify
button in the maintenance cycle turns green, you can proceed with the planning activities. At the end of the planning,
Maintenance planner generates a consolidated stack con guration le which can be used by Software Update
Manager to correct the system description and to implement the landscape change.
What is the importance of the CISI xml le?

Once you have veri ed an erroneous system, a corrective xml is generated. This corrective xml can be used by
Software Update Manager (SUM) to correct the information on the system.
Dependency Management
What kind of dependencies are currently handled in Maintenance Planner?

1. Product maintenance dependencies: If you have installed one product version on more than one technical
systems e.g. SAP ERP BE and SAP Portal, you can de ne such a dependency in Maintenance Planner these
are known as Product maintenance dependencies.
2. System tracks: A system track is a logical grouping of related systems, and contains two or more systems in
your landscape on the same target software level. A system track helps you to update or upgrade all the
systems at once.
Example: A system track can follow one of the following patterns of logic:
Two or more SAP ERP systems, like Dev, QA, and Production
Two or more SAP HCM systems connected by a transport route
How do I handle dependencies between connected systems where business

processes are running across the various systems?
For such dependencies, you can use the Upgrade Dependency Analyzer (UDA) to check the existence of
upgrade dependencies between two separately installed SAP systems in your system landscape.
You can access UDA with link http://service.sap.com/uda
What happens to the product systems already available in LMDB?

All existing Product Systems and Technical Systems declared in LMDB are synchronized to Maintenance
Planner.
Miscellaneous
I see the planning cycle/screen even after I have just de ned my changes and
con rmed it. Why?
This is because you can plan multiple changes on Maintenance Planner in a single transaction. This feature is
called Iterative Planning.During Iterative planning:
You can install a base product version in the rst iteration, for example SAP NetWeaver 7.4
You can install additional components like add-ons, in the next iteration. This still is a part of the same
transaction created above.
You can repeat this process multiple times.
The Stack XML le generated at the end of the planning process contains the metadata of all the planned
changes.
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of new system installation?

The Maintenance Planner supports planning of new installations of ABAP & JAVA systems on a chosen stack
level. The Maintenance Planner signi cantly simpli es the process by eliminating the steps of system
registration between installations and update the required SPS level and a separate system update planning
during installation. To learn more, see Up-To-Date Installation.
The new process supports following product versions for Java systems:
SAP NETWEAVER 7.5

SAP NETWEAVER 7.4
EHP1 FOR SAP NETWEAVER 7.3
SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.2
SAP S/4HANA ON-PREMISE 1511
NW 7.5 FOR SAP S/4 HANA 1511
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of new installation of dual stack

systems?
The Maintenance Planner does not support planning of new installations of dual stack systems.
Does Maintenance Planner support planning of SAP BW4/HANA System

systems?
Maintenance Planner now supports planning of SAP BW/4HANA systems. Maintenance Planner allows you to
plan installation of a new SAP BW/4HANA system or a conversion of an existing SAP NetWeaver system to SAP
BW/4HANA system.
For converting an existing system to SAP BW/4HANA system following product instances must be present:
SAP BW/4HANA STARTER

Application Server ABAP
Which product instances are required for installation of SAP NetWeaver
Process Orchestration system?
In case of a Process Orchestration system choose the following product instances, other required instances will
be calculated automatically:
Advanced Adapter Engine Extnd

BPM and Event Management
How can I install SAP Fiori Apps with Maintenance Planner?

There are two ways to do this:
From within Maintenance Planner: Proceed with the usual maintenance process and select the relevant SAP
Fiori add-ons
Integrated process, starting at SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library
Seamless integration between SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library and Maintenance Planner o ers integrated
process to discover, explore and install SAP Fiori Apps with much greater ease and e ciency as described in
blog Simpli ed Installation of SAP Fiori Apps with Maintenance Planner.
Note: This is the recommended process
Switch framework components are not pre-selected in Maintenance Planner.

Why?
Check if SAP Note 2186164 is implemented in your SAP Solution Manager system.
How can I add HR Packages in Maintenance Planner?

You can nd the option to add HR packages on the screen to Select Stack Dependent and Independent les.
This functionality will be available, for ABAP systems:
1) On which one or more of the following software components are installed: EA-HR, SAP-HR, HR-CCE.
2) RFC connection is established between the SAP Solution Manager system and the technical system.
How can I request side-e ects report?

Maintenance Planner supports generation of side-e ects report, using this feature side-e ects report can be
generated in Maintenance Planner directly.
Alternatively you can request side-e ects report with link : http://service.sap.com/side-e ects
While planning upgrade to EHP8 FOR SAP ERP 6.0, upgrade export DVD is
missing from the download basket?
For planning upgrades to SAP Business Suite 2016 releases e.g. EHP8 FOR SAP ERP 6.0, EHP4 FOR SAP CRM
7.0, upgrade export DVD needs to be downloaded from Service Market Place, Delta les and OS/DB les will get
calculated in Maintenance Planner, however the upgrade export DVD needs to be downloaded from Service
Market Place.
Which Add-ons are supported by Maintenance Planner?

Maintenance Planner does not support installation or maintenance of Add-ons, if SAP NetWeaver version is
below SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP2, in the current state of the system. Please refer the SAP Note 1770071 for
further details.
Support Related
How do I report problems with Maintenance Planner?

Create an incident on the component BC-UPG-MP.
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Former Member
April 26, 2016 at 11:28 pm

Great article!
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Jim Moore
May 23, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Where exactly is the CISI XML le applied? Since the data re ects what is in the LMDB, is the corrective xml applied
to the solution manager system or to the veri ed system?
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Priti Dhingra | Post author
June 3, 2016 at 7:52 am

Hello Jim,
CISI XML is applied to the veri ed system.
Regards,
Priit
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Former Member
July 13, 2016 at 11:19 am

Hi Priti,
Could you please explain a bit more in detail what to do with the MP_CISI_*.xml le?
Best Regards,
Daniel
EDIT: found it:
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1816146
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Former Member
June 10, 2016 at 7:56 pm

Hello, maintenance planner for some reason does not accept passwords containing “!”
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Former Member
August 22, 2016 at 2:04 pm

Hi Priti,
Thanks for writing this blog, and making it easy for many.
I have one question, on Maintenance Planner, what is the di erence between ‘Saving’ and ‘Activating’ the
system details on Verify section.
Thanks in advance!
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August 30, 2016 at 8:24 am

Hello Nagaraju,
Activating lets you persists the veri cation, if you only save, the changes will be applicable only for that
transaction.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Prem Sukh Bishnoi
September 7, 2016 at 3:12 am

Hi Priti,
Nice information.
I have doubt regarding dependency analysis for NW 750 system.

As mentioned in above blog that you can get this information from UDA but unfortunately UDA does not shows
any information for NW 750 system. Is there any simplest way to check the dependency between system for
NW 750 system.
Regards,Prem
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Former Member
October 18, 2016 at 2:27 pm

Hello
I have the same doubt. Could anyone help us?
Thanks & Regards
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April 10, 2017 at 5:54 am

Hello Prem, Hello Monica,
I reached out to UDA experts to help clarify your query, the dependencies for latest releases are depicted in
Note 1388258. Unfortunately data for UDA is not yet available.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Christian Reicherz

Hello Priti,
are there any plans to integrate the ‘side e ect report’ into the MP? We’re missing this feature as lling out the
form on the website (according to note 2309475) is bothersome, error-prone — and sometimes impossible.
Maybe MOPZ wasn’t as beautiful, but ‘form follows function’
Regards,
Christian
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Pikakala Sebastian
September 16, 2016 at 2:30 pm

Hello, i just upgraded EHP8 with NW 7.5 on sandbox, for our assessment, i have to send the side e ects for
review to our functional team.
Looking at 2309475, gives me a not so good feeling, is there a better way to get the side a ects for the Maintenance
Transactions. MOPZ was so easy to get all the side e ects of SPS or a EHP.
Regards,
Sebastian
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November 18, 2016 at 1:18 pm

Hello Christian,
This feature is under development.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Christian Reicherz

Looking forward to it, thanks for your feedback!

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Christian Reicherz

Hello Priti,
I think you can update the FAQ above as there’s an update to note 2309475 [1]. MP is now capable of
generating the side e ect report.
[1] https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2309475/E/
—
Bye
Christian
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Christian Reicherz
December 1, 2016 at 7:09 am

Note to myself:
#2309475 was updated again; functionality still isn’t available.
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Subhash Chandra
February 28, 2017 at 9:25 pm

Hello Priti,
Any news on the side e ects reports progress. When can we expect this feature on MP ?
Regards,
Subhash
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April 7, 2017 at 5:55 am

Hello Christian,
Option to generate Side e ects reports is available in MP.
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/05/26/maintenance-planner-release-highlights/
Best Regards,
Priti
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Christian Reicherz
April 18, 2017 at 8:08 am

Thanks for feedback, I’ve already seen the updated note #2309475
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Bye
Christian
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Former Member

Hi,
How customers can report bug, if there are issues in the MP ?. when i click the ? symbol in the home page of
MP, i don’t see any option to create support ticket from it. Please add this feature / functionality to report
issues in MP itself.
For example: getting this error – not able to report this by clicking ? symbol on the MP top right hand side of
MP Home page.
It takes time at every step, try to improve the performance of MP as well.
Thanks
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Dear Selvakumar,
Thanks for the feedback ,

1) Option to report issue, we will evaluate it.
2) Are you still facing performance issues? Could you please provide more context.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
April 25, 2017 at 7:41 pm

Yes I now get this exact message when using google chrome but not IE.
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Pikakala Sebastian
September 16, 2016 at 2:36 pm

Hi Priti,

I need the side effects notes for my Maintenance Transaction MP_<sid>_20160830_115151, Can you suggest a better
way to get this than the note 2309475

Regards,
Sebastian
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Hello Sebastian,
Integration of side e ects functionality is under development.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Michael Dumas

Hi Priti,
We are planning an upgrade of our Solution Manager system and I created a track for our SBX, DEV, and PROD
systems. When I use the Plan feature for the track I get the dreaded
“ABAP Queue Check FAILED with SY-SUBRC ‘2’. ” error, and can’t resolve it using the various notes I found.
I can successfully create stacks for the systems individually, so in that sense we’ve moved on, but the track
system seems really useful as presented in ITM213. I hope that can be resolved for our next upgrade.
Best Regards,
Mike Dumas
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November 28, 2016 at 10:18 am

Hello Mike,
Thanks for reaching out, we need to take a deeper look at the issue. Could you please raise an incident –
component is: BC-UPG-MP. Please provide transaction id and steps to replicate the issue.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
December 15, 2016 at 12:21 pm

Hi Priti,
Now at the end of the year the new SAP-HR packages come available. These have to be maintained in the HR
systems of our customers. In MOPZ I was able to select the HR packages manually. In MP I can’t nd the
option to maintain these HR packages.
In your notes above you describe the option to add the HR packages in another change plan, but that is not
what I want to plan. I only want to maintain the current HR packages nothing else.
Hope you can help to solve this issue.
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Hello Ernest,
If your requirements is to only apply the HR package you need to select the current SP level in “De ne Change”
step and proceed to add HR packages.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member

Hi Priti,
We have got multiple solution managers and lots of system in our landscape. The option suggested above
when you have “multiple Solution Managers” seems to suggest that one will need to do it for each and every
system in the landscape. I wonder if there’s a setting at the global level to ensure MP is updated only from one
solution manager.
At the moment I am considering to disable LANDSCAPE_FETCH job on all other solution managers except for
one. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks.
Best Regards,
Mandar
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Former Member
May 4, 2017 at 12:13 pm

No response to this question for few months now. I think I should stop asking di cult questions :-p
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H. Pol
March 7, 2017 at 10:57 am

Hello,
Is there also a possibility to use the MP for an upgrade from a SAP ERP 6.0 with MSSQL to SAP ERP 8.0 with
HANA?
So NOT S4/HANA or BW/HANA, but only to the HANA database.
Regards,
Hans
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March 14, 2017 at 10:13 am

Hello Hans,
You can plan for upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 EHPxx supported on HANA, in Maintenance Planner.
For migration to SAP HANA you would have to use DMO option in SUM.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
March 9, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Hello,
i am testing BPCA in SolMan 7.2 .
I want to analyze a Support package stack created in Maintenance Planer .
But i get the error “Error in SAP backend” “No relevant Maintenance Planner transactions found”.
Has anyone experience with this behaviour ?
Regards, Roland
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April 7, 2017 at 6:00 am

Hi Roland,
I contacted experts on this topic. It looks like you are using SEA and not BPCA. There is no connection
between BPCA and maintenance planner in SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
Here are couple of checks:
1) If you are using value help in SEA to get all the maintenance plans for a system. Please make sure that the
system name in the maintenance plan and the one entered in SEA are the same.
2) The maintenance plan must also be created for the same customer number as the S-User that is used in
the connection from SAP Solution manager to the SAP backbone.
If this does not resolve the issue, please open a ticket on SV-SMG-IMP-SEA.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Kathy Moreillon
March 30, 2017 at 5:41 pm

All of my systems are not displaying in the Maintenance Planner. All data is in-sync between the ERP system,
SMSY, LMDB and the SAP Portal. How can I manually get my systems to appear in the MP? I do not have the
button in LMDB Upload to SAP Support Portal.
Regards,
Kathy
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April 6, 2017 at 10:57 am

Hi Kathy,
Please check if SAP Note 2002546 is applied in your SAP Solution Manager.
This Note is needed to enable the button in the LMDB.
Hope it helps.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Christoph Ostrop
April 4, 2017 at 4:51 am

why there is no option for creating / install of process orchestration (PO) system ???
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April 6, 2017 at 10:59 am

Hi Christoph,
There is no speci c option for Process orchestration system, you need to select Product Instances Manually
as described in the link:
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/01/25/maintenance-planner-frequently-asked-questions/comment-page-
1/#jive_content_id_Which_product_instances_are_required_for_installation_of_SAP_NetWeaver_Process_Orc
hestration_system
Hope it helps.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Christoph Ostrop
April 24, 2017 at 1:08 pm

Why does SAP always construct such illogical queries and logic-errors ???
and (in SWPM phase-2 (de ne parameters)
what product instances (formerly usage types) are needed for PO-system ?
Adobe Document Services

BI Java
BPM
Central process Scheduling
Composition Platform
EP Core Application Portal
Enterprise Portal
Enterprise Service Repository
PDF export
??????????
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Christoph Ostrop
April 4, 2017 at 4:53 am

plan a new system,
the left small window (ABAP or JAVA system) did not appear automatically when using Chrome-Browser !!
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April 6, 2017 at 11:02 am

Hi Christoph,
Window will appear again once you click on the image depicting type of system, next to the SID input eld.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
April 5, 2017 at 4:28 pm

Hello Team ,
In maintenance planner my system shows EPR 2004 ECC Server although the system is ERP 6 .0 , So why it
shows wrong ,where as in LMDB its correct SAP ERP 6.0.
But if I change the product instance to NW 7.0 in LMDB then it shows ERP 6.0 in maintenance planner .
Regards,
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April 6, 2017 at 11:00 am

Hi Umesh,
Can you please raise a ticket.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
April 11, 2017 at 11:17 am

Hi Priti,
I would like to use the stack.xml copy functionality which could be accessed
via RPT_MOPZ_COPY_STACK_XML report in SolMan 7.1.
Is there a similar tool in Maintenance planner or SolMan 7.2?
Thanks,
Kalman
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April 12, 2017 at 6:55 am

Hello Kalman,
This feature is available in Maintenance Planner. Please refer release highlights for more details.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member
April 25, 2017 at 7:38 pm

Google chrome now always fails when using landscape planner. I get a message cannot get access to the
backend system and times out. Used to work two weeks ago. Then when I go to IE this works but I have no
idea where download les goes. I check from browser view downloads and nothing. I search my pc and again
nothing. I then go back into google chrome nd the transaction and do the download to my pc.
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Former Member
May 3, 2017 at 8:26 pm

How do I add new business packages while generating stack le using maintenance planner?
We have a NW portal 7.4, we need to add some SRM/MDM Business Packages to our existing portal. I tried
to add using Portal component but the business packages options are not showing while generating the
stack le.
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Former Member
May 17, 2017 at 11:56 am
Hi Priti,
We are facing One Issue in maintenance planner. we are trying to generate stack.xml for Solution manager 7.1
for upgrade but our solution manager SP level is not showing correct information. We are on solman 7.1 SP14
but it is showing SP06. please let us know how we can resolve this issue.
OUR current version : solman7.1 SP14.
we have also re-sysnc SLD to LMDB & LMDB to SAP portal but information still not updating in maintenance
planner
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Former Member
August 16, 2017 at 10:17 am

HI Ashish,
Even we are facing the same issue in Maintenance planner. We are on Solman 7.1 SP11 but its showing SP10.
Kindly let me know how your issue got resolved?
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Former Member
June 2, 2017 at 9:30 pm

Hi Preethi,
This is vishnu and I have just installed a fresh version of solman 7.2 sp02 the base version and was having
plans to upgrade to sps04. I have installed both the abap and java stacks separately on the same host with
di erent SID’s on oracle 11.2.0.3
I have entered the maintenance planner after pumping the system information from my existing SLD into the
maintenance planner and then went on to the creation of the stack le for sps04, but to my surprise there is
no option for update support package and instead I get only the option “Install or maintain an addon” and on
selecting it there is no option to select the sps04.
Kindly advise on the above. Not only this I tried to plan a new system installation of solution manager 7.2
sps04 through the maintenance planner and on selecting the abap system installation as per your blog, I do
not see any option such as SAP solution manager 7.2 and instead I see only two options namely “Install an SAP
Netweaver System” and “Install an SAP NW AS ABAP INNOVATION PACKAGE system” and once again there is
no such option as solution manager 7.2.
If you could put light on the above two scenarios then I can proceed with the update from sps02 or go on with
a fresh installation.
Regards.
Vishnu
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Daniel Masaladzic
July 27, 2017 at 12:16 pm

Hello,
we are planning to upgrade a ERP 6.0 EHP 7 (including add-ons like IDEX,…) to EHP 8 using the Maintenance
Planner. We start by chosing Maintain/Install Add-on and proceed clicking the EHP 8 option.
The following screen shows needed components to upgrade to EHP 8 but add-ons seem to remain untouched.
What does this mean? Are these add-ons compatible with EHP 8 or else how can we make sure that they will
be upgraded to a supported level? Actually I assumed, MP will do the job for us
Regards and Thanks in advance
Daniel
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Ivan Borunov
August 4, 2017 at 11:41 am

Thank you for the article.
The tool is great and works ne in the most cases.
Unfortunately, cannot receive working stack XML le out of Maintenance Planner for upgrading SAP
Enterprise Portal Java system from Netweaver 7.0 to 7.5. The XML le contains empty <name/> and
<version/> tags for BPDESCOLL601_0-10003018.ZIP, thus SUM does not accept it.
SAP incident raised more than 30 days ago, high priority, sap support on phone and chat… Nobody is able to
help so far. Upgrade project is stuck, deadline approaching.
I suspect the issue is caused by the fact Maintenance Planner expects SDA/SCA le instead of plain zipped
EPA (EPA does not have meta data as SDA/SCA does) and ready to ll the missing XML tags in text editor if I
know exact values or have better advise.
Ivan
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Former Member
April 17, 2018 at 1:43 pm

Ivan Borunov
Hi Ivan,
We got exactly the same issue in our Portal upgrade with the component BPDESCOLL601_0-10003018.ZIP
and also few other .zip packages.
Could you please tell how it is resolved?
Thanks a lot,
Best regards,
Rajat Sharma
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Ivan Borunov
May 16, 2018 at 3:05 pm

Hello, Rajat
My problem was resolved, as soon as SAP Support advised me to link my Portal SAP system with one of SAP
ERP system in Solution Manager -> Managed system -> System usage. I assigned ESS usage type to Portal
(version of ESS is linked with ERP) and issue has gone.
With the best regards –
Ivan.
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Former Member
May 20, 2018 at 5:19 am

Hi Ivan,
Thank you for your reply, for us SAP support advised following :
Writing this so if someone else face same problem, they can check this solution also.
Our Portal was showing as ERP system in maintenance planner.

SAP suggested to upload our system data manually in maintenance planner
While generating stack, it asked us to include ERP components and then Portal components.
After this the issue was resolved.
Thanks,
Rajat
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Former Member

Hello Priti,
I’d like to upgrade system, but I don’t see “plan a maintenance” button.
How to proceed now?
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Hi,
If you click Plan button on the maintenance cycle, you will be navigated to “De ne Change” screen, on this
screen you should be able to select appropriate option.
Best Regards,
Priti
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Former Member

Dear Priti,
Thank you so much for such a nice post!
My solution manager version is 7.0 EHP1 and I could see that my “ST” software component is having release
400 and level 25. Does this version support “Maintenance Planner”?
Thank You!
Regards,
Jegan Raj
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Hi Jeganraj,
Glad to know you nd the article helpful.
As you might be aware that SAP Solution Manager 7.0 / 7.01 status is “In customer-speci c maintenance”.
You can nd the support matrix here :
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/01/25/maintenance-planner-frequently-asked-
questions/#jive_content_id_Which_versions_of_SAP_Solution_Manager_are_supported
Best Regards,
Priti
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Jurij Moisejenko

Hello,
problem with Download Media According to Maintenance Planner Transaction
i got error:
Authentication error. DETAILS: Connection was established but a problem occurred. Authentication is
required and has failed or has not yet been provided. SOLUTION: Make sure that you have the required
download permissions and/or that you enter the correct credentials

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Jurij Moisejenko

Hello,
problem with Download Media According to Maintenance Planner Transaction
then i use stack.xml le (sapinst.exe SAPINST_STACK_XML=E:\SAP_Installs\\Installs_abap\MP_Stack.xml)
i got error:Authentication error. DETAILS: Connection was established but a problem occurred.
Authentication is required and has failed or has not yet been provided. SOLUTION: Make sure
that you have the required download permissions and/or that you enter the correct credentials
* with S-User everything is ok

* stack: links are fresh

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Jurij Moisejenko

and next question : if we planing to start new Solman 72 sp 03 system installiation
SWPM with MP stack_xml le (sapinst.exe

SAPINST_STACK_XML=E:\SAP_Installs\\Installs_abap\MP_Stack.xml) we must choose :
Download Media According to Maintenance Planner Transaction option
or
Options to install SAP Solution Manager 7.2 ABAP Support Release ?
Thanks
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Former Member
April 4, 2018 at 1:18 pm

Hello Priti,
I am trying Install an Add-On (SAP EWM 9.5) on our SAP NW system. When I check SAP Support Portal (SAPK-
95002INSCMEWM SCMEWM 950: SP 0002) is available for download. Its released today. When I run through
the MP and plan for change I only see SCMEWM 950: SP 0001 as available option for selection. MP is not
updated yet with the new released SP for EWM. Can you please advise how to resolve this scenario ?
Regards,
Pankaj
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Ravikiran Chikati
May 8, 2018 at 11:47 pm

Hi
When we are trying to calculate dependency we are getting below message .Any idea?
Thanks
Ravi
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David Scholz
February 8, 2019 at 9:40 am

Hi Priti,
thanks for this helpful blog. Is there any way to schedule oder manually start the replication in the
Maintenance Planner? I just installed a new system, added it to the SolMan and uploaded the data
successfully to SAP Portal. But the system is not (yet) shown in MP.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards, David
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Jens Gundlach
March 19, 2019 at 9:38 am

Hi Priti,
regarding the performance of MP: for me it takes roughly 1 minute per step, eg. from selecting “Install or
Maintain an Add-on” to the next screen where I can select the Add-On. This continues for each step, which
makes usage of MP really horrible. Are there any tipps to improve performance?
Best Regards, Jens
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Accessing Maintenance Planner

Prerequisites for using Maintenance Planner

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Correcting Landscape Data

Accessing Maintenance Planner

How do I access Maintenance Planner?

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Prerequisites for using Maintenance Planner

What data does Maintenance Planner need?

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I see outdated data in Maintenance Planner.

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April 26, 2016 at 11:28 pm

May 23, 2016 at 4:55 pm

to the solution manager system or to the veri ed system?

Priti Dhingra | Post author

June 3, 2016 at 7:52 am

CISI XML is applied to the veri ed system.

July 13, 2016 at 11:19 am

EDIT: found it:

June 10, 2016 at 7:56 pm

August 22, 2016 at 2:04 pm