Introduction to SAP Discovery

SAP Discovery focuses primarily on the SAP architecture layer according to different SAP system configurations. The SAP system configurations supported are:

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

ABAP

JAVA

DS (Double Stack)

Each SAP system is comprised of:

NetWeaver Application server, including the following types:

Central Instance
SCS (Central Services)
Dialog Instance

Message/Enqueue server

Database

Components, including:

Software Components
Development Components

Note In SAP Discovery, in the case of JAVA and ABAP configurations, one application server is considered as one instance of the configuration, but in the case of DS configuration two application servers with the same instance name on the same host are considered as one instance of the DS configuration.