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With SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, IT teams can obtain more autonomy over how they assign and manage user access control in SAP systems. With the SAP integration, admins can discover authorization paths and even find multiple authorizations. ARM offers user provisioning and management for SAP, which you can use to deploy and manage new user accounts. Admins can also leverage ARM to see which Active Directory users are assigned to which SAP accounts. ARM even includes the ability to customize templates than can be used to provide role-specific access to users.
Additionally, ARM introduces access rights delegation based on the data owner, which means data owners themselves define SAP data categories across your organization, assign its functional owners, and manage related permissions. This portal can be accessed via the web on any device, including laptops, desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
SAP monitoring is the practice of proactively monitoring application servers and computer utilization in an IT environment that runs SAP systems. Since many organizations use SAP, specifically the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, SAP monitoring is a critical practice to help ensure network software is performing at or above the expected thresholds set by IT admins.
By monitoring SAP systems on a regular basis, you can identify important information about the health of your systems, servers, connections, and critical applications. In fact, monitoring SAP systems should be completed daily.
However, many SAP solutions utilize a three-tier client-server architecture. While this architecture is ideal for organizations that value scalability and flexibility, it can also make the monitoring process more difficult. Investing in an enterprise-grade SAP system monitoring tool can help improve the SAP monitoring process and streamline IT efforts.
A SAP transaction code, sometimes referred to as a “t-code,” is a series of letters and numbers that act as a shortcut key to access a desired SAP transaction. Users must enter a code into the SAP interface to access functions or run programs in SAP. Most transactions codes are generally four characters and can be entered directly into the transaction code field.
There are hundreds of thousands of SAP transaction codes. However, there are some commonly used transaction codes that are helpful to know:
Depending on the needs of your organization and individual departments, different transaction codes may be helpful.
IT admins are often tasked with assigning roles and privileges to users, so they can perform various tasks. This is especially true for SAP data provision monitoring, where a user may need specific roles and privileges like scheduling, starting, and stopping tasks.
In addition to using software for SAP monitoring to enhance the ability to search for security-critical SAP t-codes, identify authorization paths, and be alerted to multiple authorizations, IT admins can take certain steps within a SAP system to set up monitoring for user permissions. SAP best practices include setting up common business roles that are relevant to their organization. This can make it easier to change the access rights to multiple users at once. Within a SAP system, IT admins can use the Admin tab to enter a role ID according to enterprise naming preferences. They can also define the scope of the role by selecting the SAP work centers that users with this role should be able to see. It’s helpful to note that not every work center is relevant to each role, but you can expand the work center if you want to assign individual views. Additionally, IT admins can specify what access they want to grant to each specific business role—read only, edit, or both.
It is important to identify users assigned to a specific SAP transaction code so IT admins can more easily identify and understand user role provisioning within SAP. With better insights, IT admins can improve the process of how they manage SAP user access. They can even leverage a user provisioning tool to help automate this process. With better user provisioning, IT admins can enforce access control by introducing protective policy checks and supervising emergency access. This also helps managers more easily identify and validate which users have access to SAP applications and system data.
When it comes to permissions, SAP monitoring tools help IT teams and their organizations gain visibility into and control over the systems that data users can access in SAP environments. SAP monitoring tools like SolarWinds Access Rights Manager are responsible for a number of tasks, most often handling automatic intrusion detection, managing self-service access requests, streamlining the review process of user access, and managing both on-premise and cloud deployments of SAP systems. These functions are critical, especially considering that enterprises often depend on SAP systems to process orders, manage financial transactions with more speed and security, and offer real-time reporting to internal and external stakeholders. Without knowing who has permission to what, it can be difficult to ensure your SAP systems are functional and safe.
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager can be leveraged as a SAP monitoring tool in many ways. For one, IT teams can use ARM to analyze user access rights across their SAP systems. With newly generated insights, admins can more quickly reduce the cybersecurity risk of unauthorized system access and identify potential data breaches.
Additionally, ARM can help IT teams identify and manage risks by detecting suspicious access attempts. ARM also provides insight into SAP transaction codes and authorization paths, and allows integration with Active Directory for better SAP account management. ARM is designed to save IT teams time and resources by assigning permission management to data owners as opposed to requiring IT to manage all permission requests. With this added time, IT teams can concentrate more on tasks that can help improve the overall security posture of the organization.
SAP monitoring is the practice of proactively monitoring application servers and computer utilization in an IT environment that runs SAP systems. Since many organizations use SAP, specifically the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, SAP monitoring is a critical practice to help ensure network software is performing at or above the expected thresholds set by IT admins.
By monitoring SAP systems on a regular basis, you can identify important information about the health of your systems, servers, connections, and critical applications. In fact, monitoring SAP systems should be completed daily.
However, many SAP solutions utilize a three-tier client-server architecture. While this architecture is ideal for organizations that value scalability and flexibility, it can also make the monitoring process more difficult. Investing in an enterprise-grade SAP system monitoring tool can help improve the SAP monitoring process and streamline IT efforts.
A SAP transaction code, sometimes referred to as a “t-code,” is a series of letters and numbers that act as a shortcut key to access a desired SAP transaction. Users must enter a code into the SAP interface to access functions or run programs in SAP. Most transactions codes are generally four characters and can be entered directly into the transaction code field.
There are hundreds of thousands of SAP transaction codes. However, there are some commonly used transaction codes that are helpful to know:
Depending on the needs of your organization and individual departments, different transaction codes may be helpful.
IT admins are often tasked with assigning roles and privileges to users, so they can perform various tasks. This is especially true for SAP data provision monitoring, where a user may need specific roles and privileges like scheduling, starting, and stopping tasks.
In addition to using software for SAP monitoring to enhance the ability to search for security-critical SAP t-codes, identify authorization paths, and be alerted to multiple authorizations, IT admins can take certain steps within a SAP system to set up monitoring for user permissions. SAP best practices include setting up common business roles that are relevant to their organization. This can make it easier to change the access rights to multiple users at once. Within a SAP system, IT admins can use the Admin tab to enter a role ID according to enterprise naming preferences. They can also define the scope of the role by selecting the SAP work centers that users with this role should be able to see. It’s helpful to note that not every work center is relevant to each role, but you can expand the work center if you want to assign individual views. Additionally, IT admins can specify what access they want to grant to each specific business role—read only, edit, or both.
Access Rights Manager
Run SAP scans to identify user permission violations and segregate user duties.
Improve user access management with better visibility into SAP systems.
Fortify compliance efforts with ad hoc and regularly scheduled SAP audit reports.
