To determine a strategy for managing the presentation software located on the user frontends, including SAP and non-SAP software packages
Frontend software and hardware requirements defined
1. Review your enterprise standard for user frontend hardware.
2. Determine frontend upgrade cycles that are consistent with your technical infrastructure needs and your system release strategy.
3. Check whether the frontend software installation options provide adequate system administration support for your tasks. Consider remote connections for field employees or subsidiaries.
4. If necessary, determine procedures and any additional software requirements for supporting frontend users.
5. If possible, schedule the required frontend upgrade cycles. You can avoid complications and extra work later by planning future upgrade procedures before the initial installation.
6. If necessary, determine upgrade procedures and cycles for external subsidiaries.
7. If you allow remote connection for field employees who dial in to the system or for subsidiaries, determine their upgrade procedures and cycles.
8. Consider data interfaces that use the frontend level of the system. If necessary, include data interfaces in plans for system maintenance.
9. Document the frontend strategy in section Frontend Environment of the IT Infrastructure Document.
For SAP frontend software, see the manual Installing SAP Frontend Software for PCs and the frontend installation requirements checklist in the SAP Installation Kit.
Use logon groups for load balancing. Logon groups are installed and maintained centrally from within the SAP system and users log on to the SAP system from the SAP logon menu. You can change, add, or remove an application server from the system landscape centrally from the SAP system with transaction SMLG. You do not need to make any frontend changes.