Customizing
Access through: Settings > Customizing
The Customizing feature allows you to adjust the Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software features according to your needs.
Supported languages
Supported languages
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Supported languages
In this setting, you can define the languages for the texts that are loaded from connected systems and for the texts of self-defined menu entries. The default languages are German and English.
Periodic data
Periodic data
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Periodic data
In this setting, you can define how Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software loads periodic ABAP data.
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In Maximum months for loading periodic data , you can define the maximum number of past months for which periodic data can be loaded when Absolute specification is selected in the ABAP data load reports. The default value is 24 months. This setting also affects the value help for the period.
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In Minimum CPU time for loading periodic data, you can define the minimum CPU time in seconds for periods, users, and objects (transactions or reports). Entries with a lower CPU time are not loaded.
Data load ABAP
Data load ABAP
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Data load ABAP
In this setting, you can define defaults for loading ABAP data. You can select the checkboxes to preselect the following options and make them uneditable in ABAP data load reports:
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Only dialog users
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Only currently valid users
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USMM license type systematic
If you select all the checkboxes in this customizing setting, and the User master data option is selected in ABAP data load reports, the Roles and authorizations option is also preselected and uneditable.
Updates user master data
Updates user master data
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Updates user master data
In this setting, you can define how Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software processes changes to user master data. Both options are selected by default.
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If Ignore old value is deselected, the current value of the user master data field is read from the satellite system and compared to the old value in the change list. If the values are different, no update is performed, and an error entry is added to the change list. This can be useful when several users are making changes at the same time and do not want to overwrite each other's changes.
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If Sync. after update is selected, the changes to the user master data are also synchronized with the values stored in the master system.
RFC destination to LAW central system
RFC destination to LAW central system
Access through: Settings > Customizing > RFC destination to LAW central system
In this setting, you can define the RFC destination to the LAW central system. The RFC destination is required to transfer measurement data to the LAW central system via an RFC connection.
Reporting groups
Reporting groups
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Reporting groups
In this setting, you can define reporting groups. For every reporting group, you can enter the name and description.
Names of jobs
Names of jobs
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Names of jobs
In this setting, you can define custom job names that are used instead of the default job names when you process change lists or start system measurements in the background.
Supermaster
Supermaster
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Supermaster
The Supermaster folder has settings for the configuration of Submaster systems and the automatic transfer of change list entries from a Supermaster system to connected Submaster systems.
Submaster configuration
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Supermaster > Submaster configuration
In this setting, you can define whether change list entries can be transferred from the Supermaster system to the Submaster system. In the Submaster systems, new change lists can be created, or entries can be added to an existing change list. After the import, notifications can be sent to receiver lists.
This setting only applies if the SAP system is a Submaster system.
Change list transfer
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Supermaster > Change list transfer
In this setting, you can define whether change list entries are automatically transferred from the Supermaster system to a Submaster system each time a change list is processed on the Supermaster system.
This setting is useful when change lists are processed automatically and the manual transfer of change list entries from the Supermaster system to the Submaster system is impossible.
HR connector
HR connector
Access through: Settings > Customizing > HR connector
The HR connector folder has a setting for assigning HR data sources.
HR data source assignments
Access through: Settings > Customizing > HR connector > HR data source assignments
In this setting, you can assign HR data sources to data sources in Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software. This allows you to show the HR activity status of users in the HR activity status report. For each assignment, you can select the HR communication type to decide whether the user mapping is specified by the user ID or the email address.
You can assign the same HR data source to different data sources in Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software.
Active Directory connector
Active Directory connector
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Active Directory connector
The Active Directory connector folder has settings for loading and showing Active Directory data.
To access Active Directory data, you must create connections to Active Directory servers using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) connector. To configure the LDAP connector via transaction LDAP, see the SAP standard documentation.
Active Directory attributes
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Active Directory connector > Active Directory attributes
In this setting, you can define the attributes that are read from the Active Directory server. You must create an entry for each attribute that is to be read. For all attributes that have dates, select the DATES attribute type. For all other attributes, select the STRING attribute type.
Active Directory mapping and filter
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Active Directory connector > Active Directory mapping & filter
In this setting, you can define for each Active Directory server which Active Directory attributea are mapped to which SAP data fields. To limit the number of records to be read, you can specify search filters.
| SAP field | AD attribute | Search filter |
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| USER_ID | SAPACCOUNT | (&(OBJECTCLASS=*) (OBJECTCATEGORY=PERSON) ) |
Active Directory data source assignments
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Active Directory connector > Active Directory data source assignments
In this setting, you can assign Active Directory servers to data sources in Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software.
Inventory data
Inventory data
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Inventory data
The Inventory data folder has settings for loading and showing inventory data.
Inventory sources
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Inventory data > Inventory sources
In this setting, you can create inventory data sources of the types SLM and CSV.
Snow License Manager connector
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Inventory data > Snow License Manager connector
The Snow License Manager connector folder has settings for maintaining the connection to the Snow License Manager (SLM) server.
RFC destination SLM server
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Inventory data > Snow License Manager connector > RFC destination SLM server
In this setting, you can define the RFC destination to the SLM server for inventory data sources of the type SLM.
Allowlist application
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Inventory data > Snow License Manager connector > Allowlist application
In this setting, you can define the applications whose data is to be read on the SLM data source. You can create entries for the following SLM fields:
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Application Name (NAME)
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Application manufacturer (MANUFNAME)
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Application ID (APPID)
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Manufacturer ID (MANUFID)
Only read the data of applications that have the manufacturer SAP AG
| SLM field | Field value |
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| MANUFNAME | SAP AG |
Contract and compliance
Contract and compliance
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance
The Contract and compliance folder has settings for Contract management.
Default SAP license contract
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance > Default SAP license contract
In this setting, you can define the default license contract for the compliance analysis in Results of rule set executions and Results of cost allocations.
Before using this setting, you must create at least one license contract in Manage contracts.
Contract maintenance assignments
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance > Contract - maintenance assignments
If a company has several subsidiaries, it can be difficult in Contract management to keep track of which licenses belong to which subsidiary. To identify which subsidiary licenses belong, there are assignments.
In this setting, you can define the assignments that you can use for assigning Contracts and Products. Assignments are a selection criterion in the Compliance analysis report.
Metric Full Use Equivalents - Factors
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance > Metric Full Use Equivalents - Factors
In this setting, you can define the Full Use Equivalents (FUE) factors, that you can use in classes for the product-specific calculation of S/4HANA Cloud Products in Contract management.
An FUE factor defines how many users of a user type correspond to one FUE in S/4HANA Cloud. FUE factor 30 means, for example, that 30 users correspond to one FUE.
In Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software, each FUE factor is assigned to a scenario and a license. Scenarios and licenses group FUE factors so that all factors in the same scenario and license are assigned to a specific class. Each class in turn stands for a specific product.
Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software comes with predefined FUE factors. You can adjust the factors if necessary.
Metric Full Use Equivalents - Product
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance > Metric Full Use Equivalents - Product
In this setting, you can define the assignment of Full Use Equivalent (FUE) scenarios to Products for Results of rule set executions.
Compliance check - groups for data export
Access through: Settings > Customizing > Contract & compliance > Compliance check - groups for data export
In this setting, you can define the export groups that decide which compliance analysis results are intended for which further processing system. You can select the export groups in the Compliance analysis report.