BASIS provides administrative
tools for SAP.
It is a logical collection of R/3 software components. Basis is the layer between the hardware and R/3 system software.
It is a logical collection of R/3 software components. Basis is the layer between the hardware and R/3 system software.
BASIS provides for the
following support in below mention areas
- Tools for administration:
Basis includes various
administration tools for managing the system resources like hardware, software
and printers. It includes tools for monitoring the system performance,
monitoring user sessions, setting up alerts and deriving various statistics and
graphs which give indications of the system performance.
- User Administration:
This includes creating user ids,
modifying user details and deleting users ids, viewing system users, sending
messages to multiple users.
- Run time environment for the user:
The run time environment for the
user includes the default menu path for the user, the date format for the user,
the default printer for the user, changing user’s password.
- Provide Authorizations to the users:
In order to enable the user to
access the various transactions, it is essential that the users have the correct
set of authorisations. Setting of authorisations for the users based on their
job roles. An authorisation tool is used to create the user authorisations. Once
the authorisations have been created, profiles are created and the
authorisations are attached to them. Each profile can have many such
authorisations attached to them. The profiles are created based on the role
definition of the user in the company. After the authorisations and profiles are
created, user ids are created and the profiles are attached to the user
profiles. Each user id could have multiple user profiles attached to them. For
example, if we create a user profile for a business head, then that user id
could have profiles relating to various departments / job definitions attached
to it.
- Printer Administration:
This includes installing the
network printers and local and remote printers for the users, setting up printer
queues, and managing printer spooler.
- System Administration:
This includes starting and
stopping the SAP service manager, diagnosing the system start-up, monitoring
work processes, viewing transaction codes, clearing locked entries, monitoring
system updates, transport of customising change requests and ABAP change
requests at the OS level.
- Database Administration (including Backup and Restore):
Database management including
database backup and restore, database performance monitor, and analysing
database activity.
- Interfaces with non-SAP products:
BASIS also includes tools for
interfacing with non-SAP products, which will continued to be in use in the
organisation.
