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Discovery Mechanism

SAP Discovery uses two types of mechanisms to perform discovery:

  • Shallow. SAP Discovery uses application signature and plugins.
  • Deep. SAP Discovery uses dedicated jobs.

    Most dedicated jobs are separated by the ABAP or JAVA application server type. If a server is identified as part of a DS configuration, then the entire system is marked as DS.

Note You can discover the entire SAP system by discovering a connection to the SAP Solution Manager. By doing this you create a single set of credentials. There is no need to create a set of credentials for each SAP system.