FireFighter Functional Scenario Needed

[former_member184114]

Hi All,

Can anyone plz tell me in which situation or scenario the FireFighter is used?

A detailed example would be a great help. As such there is no document or guide available on functional usage. Atleast in my knowledge.

Regards,

Faisal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

eg All Contractors.

A new contractor joins a company. In there standard SAP role they have only 1 transaction available, the FireFighter Transaction.

They logon in themorning using their standard SAP role and then have to log onto FireFighter to perfrom any work and automatically have that work logged via FireFighter.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

let me add one thing:

FireFighter actually serves an emergency user concept.

It is NOT practical for users following their daily business - as it is not about collecting data (who did what) but also to REVIEW this data. Who will sit down once a week/month to review everything all the contractors did?

Sure you could filter for critical actions, but that's what Compliance Calibrator does. Be aware of not creating huge amounts of data with FireFighter.

My example would be: A person who is usually not responsible for this has to release an urgent purchase order, because the person responsible is not available. There are a lot of examples.

Regards

Daniela

[former_member184114]

Hi All,

Sorry for not responding for quite sometime due to some travelling purpose.

Thanks alot for giving me your valuable inputs

Thanks and Regards,

Faisal

[Former Member]

Hi Faisal,

We use FF mainly for our Developers who are restricted to Display activity in the SAP production system.

With a FF id, the developers can obtain the needed "update/change" activity they may need to address unforseen production issues in the middle of the night or to handle transactions that may be identified as 'critical' to the business / finances of the company

The FF access provides the reporting feature that is reviewed by our audit area and is forwarded to management for review and a sign-off approval; this process is accepted by the external auditors whenever they review the access provided our developers in a production system

We also have used it to provide external auditors the access they may need during their audit review; this allows all their activity to be recorded for review

Jerry Synoga

Ryerson

630-758-2021

[Former Member]

I have a particular sceanrio, My developers need SE38 in the Production thru the FF. Bu the management says what if they develoers make changes ?? devlopers say they need to debug !! now any sugestions to solce this ??

[achristian17]

Hi give an option of display only in the debugging object. Remove change auth for this object. This will resolve your business user's dilemma and developer is enable to do his job of debugging.

Regards,

Asok

[Former Member]

of course giving SE38 (or SA38) access will allow the developer to execute many programs, your management team are rightly concerned about giving this access, as will many auditors be.

question is why do they need to execute anything through SE38? we went through the process of having everything assigned to a transaction code so SE38/SA38 is no longer required in production.

naveed

[Former Member]

1.The access to SE38 is being accessed thru the FF ID.

2. The ABAPERs need it for the debugging.

The ABApers donot have SE38 it in the PRD

[Former Member]

Of Course it is practical to use in the scenario I described above as it is being used by a client to do that.

How you choose to use the software is down to you, and you should not limit yourself to the scenarios as described in the manuals.

If it works for you it works.

[Former Member]

Of course you can use FireFighter for monitoring the daily work of all users as well, and customers might do that.

I'm just giving pros and cons. No offense.

[former_member184114]

Hi,

Thanks alot for your valuable inputs. That means, if we can map our business scnarios in FF, we should based on our requirements. right?

Rergds,

Faisal

Edited by: Faisal Khan on Apr 7, 2008 8:41 AM

[Former Member]

You decide when a user should require FireFighter access.

Every compnay has a different view and therefore different configuration.

Examples of FireFighter usage include:

Support Users

Development Users

All Contractors

There is not right or wrong solution, just one that suits a particular company.

[former_member184114]

Hi Simon,

Can you please explain one scenario given in your reply?

Regards,

Faisal