Responsibilities of the SAP Basis consultant
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Reachable at any time: Your competent contact person is available at all times. If you operate SAP Basis Support in-house, personnel bottlenecks may occur. If your SAP employees are absent due to illness or vacation, there may be no equivalent replacement available.
In the area of SAP Basis it is necessary to make temporary changes in the security settings of the clients and systems in the course of system updates. You can use the system changeability variable to specify whether changeability of cross-client data, such as programs or menus, as well as client-independent customizing is allowed.
Creating users, assigning roles, locking and unlocking users, etc
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Some useful tips about SAP basis can be found on www.sap-corner.de.
I recommend that you schedule the background job PFCG_TIME_DEPENDENCY with the report RHAUTUPD_NEW. Scheduling the RHAUTUPD_NEW report with two variants has proven to be a best practice: Once a day before users log on for the first time (e.g. midnight or very early in the morning). This way the users are synchronized once a day. Once a month (or even once a week) with the option "Perform cleanup", so that obsolete profiles and user mappings are regularly cleaned up. Also handy: If the naming conventions of your roles allow it, you can also align the report according to different time zones. For example, I have a customer who runs the user synchronization for his users in the USA and Asia at different times, so that the daily business of the respective users is not disturbed.
Tools such as "Shortcut for SAP Systems" are extremely useful in basic administration.
All profiles ending on "_ALL" are considered critical, as they usually grant all permissions relevant to a subset in the system, application, or module.
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The generated log files can then be evaluated and the access control lists created.