Versioning of Solutions in the Solution Directory

Hello,
We have recently implemented many significant new business scenarios and changes to pre-existing ones as well.
We would like to understand how others are adding changes to their existing Solutions. Some have suggested "versioning" of the Solution. We don't see any official versioning functionality like that in Solman, nor do we find any references to it when searching.
Perhaps what is meant by it is to copy the existing Solution to create "backup" of the original. Deactivate the backup and then edit the active solution by removing the old scenarios and add the new/revised scenarios from the newly implemented projects.
Is that what is normally done?
Are you aware of any reference matieral or SAP recommendations on this process flow?

Yes, we are creating maintenance projects from the solution, then making the modifications to the maintenance project, then we plan to bring in the maintenance project back into the solution. This is partially where the versioning question is coming from.
When bringing the maintenance project back into the solution, we end up with two entries for the same business scenario, from different project sources (one from the original implementation project, and the other from the afore mentioned "new" maintenance project). Therefore, we feel that we need to delete the business scenarios from the "old" source project since those were modified in the maintenance project since the maintenance project scenarios should contain all of the most recent business scenario documentation and processes.
We simply are unable to find good documentation/reference material from SAP on how this is "supposed" to be managed when an implementation or maintenance project is added into a scenario.

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I still do not completely understand the concept of a solution. In the SAP documentation I come across statements like:
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Should we have one for all business processes?
Should we have maybe something like the following?
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Hi Mel,
I will try to answer your questions:
1. New and to-be-modified business processes are developed and tested using Solution Manager Projects and are never developed or tested using Solution Manager Solutions; CORRECT!
therefore, Solution Manager Solutions only contain production business processes.
CORRECT! you can transfer the business processes in a project to a Solution to used for example "Business Process Monitoring scenario"
2. When a Solution Manager Project is completed, business processes in that Project are copied to one or more Solution Manager Solutions; consequently, the business processses become production business processes.
Correct!
3. The structure of a Solution Manager Solution is the same as a Solution Manager Project; however, some tabs in a Solution Manager Solution are not modifiable and can only be populated when a business process in a Solution Manager Project is copied to the Solution Manager Solution.
You can transfer the data from a project to a Solution, and in this case you will get the same business scenario structure that you had in SOLAR01, but you can change this structure in order to delete scenarios, or add new once.
Also you can create a clean solution and add this Business Scenarios manually comming from different projects if you like.
4.
5. The business processes defined under a Solution or Project must be linked to a Logical Component
Correct!
The business scenarios that you define in your solutions are only use for "Business Process Monitoring" scenario.
Usually other customer creates Solutions and add the logical components that ate included in the solution.
6,7, 8 Logical component definition
A logical component define the different systems, with different roles involved in a
usual DEVclient->QUA_client->PRD_client landscape for a specific version and installation type.
For example, a usual logical component would be:
Z_ECC60: DEV 100 QUA 200 PRD 300
You can also enter other system roles in this logical component
This DEV 100,etc, has previously defined in SMSY and RFC connection created to these satellites.
9. Correct! because the processe take place in logical components finally, in SAP or not SAP systems.
"Given the above statements are true, the goal would be to document all business processes in Solution Manager Solutions. It is unnecessary to create Solution Manager Solutions based on system roles e.g. one for Solution Manager Solution for Production, one Solution for QA, one for Dev or combinations of system roles e.g. Dev->QA->Production. By defining one Solution Manager Solution, the system roles are also defined for the business processes contained in the Solution Manager Solution."
The goal is to have the documentation of the business processes in the SOLMAN system.
The Solution are mainly created for Administration and monitoring activities, based on system "basis" site, so usually Solution are created for these purposes usually after the Go live of the project.
I mean, Solution are used for the technical part of the project.
Although for Service Desk and Change request management scenarios more than
technical roles must be involved.
So, do you want to generate a report with the response times for all your productive systems? if yes, you will need to define a Solution that includes all
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Do you want to see the alerts from only want system, instead of seeing a graphic with 10 systems, you will need to create a Solution with only this system.
Usually to have a Solution with all system is not operational, unless you have few systems.
I have to insist in the idea that the Solution is not used by "Functional" team, mainly for "Technical" team.
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Usually customer even not define the Business Scenarios in their Solution for the Operational scenarios, because these Business Scenarios are not used.
Hope this clarify your questions, best regards,
Dolores

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