Difference Between Central SLD & Local SLD

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Q1) What is the Difference Between Central SLD & Local SLD.

Q2) Maintaining Individual SLD For DEV, QTY, PRD Servers is the Best One Or Maitaining the Single SLD is the Best One ????

Please Ans These Two Q's

Regards

Vamsi

[Former Member]

1. Every application (SAP application) has got its own SLD which can be treated as local SLD. Central SLD will be one which is used by multiple system.

For example CRM is talkng to XI Then CRM will have its own SLD which will be local SLD but if it also points to XI's SLD then XI SLD will be a central SLD.

2. Maintaining individual SLD for DEV, QTY & PRD will be better approach. We follow this approach.

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Sushil

[bhavesh_kantilal]

> 2. Maintaining individual SLD for DEV, QTY & PRD

> will be better approach. We follow this approach.

SAP recommends a Single SLD.

Having a separate SLD for every environment beats the concept of SLD itself. SLD is a place where you can look and understand what components/ system run in your landscape. If you are going to hve one for every Environment, it is against the concept of SLD itself. More maintenance is another issue.

Single SLD as recommended by SLD has the problem that you do not want to provide access to a component that can be used in production to developing teams and so on .What Barry has pointed is something that is a more practical approach.

There are no hard and fast rules. A client present across Geographies, havinng multiple vendors and IT teams handling different geographies would prefer to have multiple SLD's one for each Geography and then maybe a master SLD that is going to conain all info of the other Sld's and so on., There is no direct answer to this question other than it purely depends on individual clients.

Regards

Bhavesh

[Former Member]

hi,

Go through this document...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9e76e511-0d01-0010-5c9d-9f768d64...

Kumar.S

[Former Member]

any other points

[Former Member]

The other option is a pre-production SLD and a Production SLD.

We have this option.

I guess it depends on the maintenance you want to do.

We use a central SLD for Dev, QA, BRT, cutover and then a seperate SLD for Production.

Down to preference I guess, but I would recommend hosting SLD on separate server if you use it for any other NW Apps. We have issues as the Portal uses it for JCo connection data. When the Dev server goes down, all the other system that are dependant on it start to fail.

[prateek]

See this

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/29b1f3ea-0c01-0010-2dae-cc64bb38...

Regards,

Prateek