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Controlling user login during maintenance.

ayamada
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‎2021 Jun 05 3:07 PM

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Is there a way to prohibit end users from logging in during system maintenance such as transfers?

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Former Member

‎2021 Jun 05 4:24 PM

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Greetings hiyaya1885,

I am not sure what you mean by transfers. But if you are trying to prevent anyone from logging in, that can be done by:

Managing parameter login/server_logon_restriction. Check the version of your system to see if that is available. And be careful not to leave your basis team without access 🙂 More details on this link:

Keep end users out of the system during maintenance – Saptechnicalguru.com

Another option to explore is security policy management - How to restrict the login of users during maintenance – with Security policies. | SAP Blogs

Or if you like SAP GUI Scripting, it is not the hardest thing to create a macro to lock and unlock massively a specific list of users.

Hopefully this will shed a light. Kindly accept the answer if it does.

Cheers,

Luis

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PeterMonaghan
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In response to Former Member

‎2021 Jun 07 6:50 PM

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Agreed. Always be sure NOT to lock everyone out of your SAP thus "bricking" your system. Basis and Authorizations if they are two separate teams. Also be cognizant of RFC's and any other "connections" if you are trying to acquiese the DB prior to the maintenance.

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S_Sriram
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‎2021 Jun 06 5:38 AM

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Hi Yamada.

If you are using the SAP ERP system you can lock those business user id's by using the transaction code EWZ5.

Regards

SS

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PeterMonaghan
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‎2021 Jun 07 6:51 PM

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Yes! I couldn't remember the tcode my team uses. EWZ5 is a powerful tcode for quickly locking out users. Keep this one handy. As stated before, be sure NOT to lock out your Basis and Authorizations team. Someone has to be able to log in.

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S_Sriram
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‎2021 Jun 07 7:39 PM

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Hi Yamada.

Before that locking the user IDs, make sure that you can add Basis and other authorizations team user-ids to Euro administrator, then press save. after then lock the user id's when you are doing the maintenance activities. In our environment, we are using when any change requests to the production system during those time we use to lock & unlock the user-ids one go.

Regards

SS