SLD Process and JCo Configuration

System Landscape Directory Process and JCo Configuration

Applies to: This article applies to Enterprise Portal 7.0. For more information, visit the Portal and Collaboration homepage.

Summary This document cover’s what is the process involved to configure R/3 System, Technical System Creation and to configure JCo destinations.

Author: Anil Dichpally

Company: Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd.

Created on: 10 October 2008

Author Bio

Anil Dichpally is working as Senior Consultant in Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad. He has worked on EP, KM and collaboration, Webdyn pro Programming and Java Technologies. He is SDN Moderator for Portal, KM & C and Searching Utilities areas. . He has completed his M.C.A from Osmania University.

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Table of Contents Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................3

Perquisites ......................................................................................................................................................3 Procedure ...........................................................................................................................................................3

Creating System in SLD................................................................................................................................12 Creating JCo Destination ..............................................................................................................................20 For Jco Meta Data Destination .....................................................................................................................22 For Model Data Jco Destination....................................................................................................................26 Testing the Application..................................................................................................................................26

Related Content................................................................................................................................................27 Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................28



Introduction The SAP System Landscape Directory (SLD) is the central information provider in a system landscape.

The SLD is a server application that communicates with a client application by using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The SLD server contains component information, a landscape description, and a name reservation, which are based on the standard Common Information Model (CIM). The CIM standard is a general schema for describing the elements in a system landscape. This standard is independent of any implementation.

Perquisites

You will need to have system OS (Operating System) level credentials and also the details of backend server which are connecting too.

Procedure As already mentioned we need to have OS level credentials to the server, so that we can start and stop the server whenever required.

1) Go to the server installed path and start Visual Administrator

i.e. C:\usr\sap\<systemid>\<system instance>\admin\Go.bat



2) In the above screen double click Go.bat, to start Visual Administrator.



3) Minimize the tool bar and click on Connect and then enter the Portal Administrator user credentials so that we can connect to Visual Administrator.

Note: You need to have Portal Administrator access as well as operating system level credentials to configure back end System’s.

4) Expand the server services i.e. <server id>\services\SLD Data Supplier



5) Click on HTTP Settings tab and set the details as mentioned below

Host Name: EP Server Name

Port: EP Server Port Number

User: Portal Administrator User Id

Password: Admin Password

After entering the above details click on Save.



6) Select the CIM Client Generation Settings and enter the details same as which we have given for

HTTP Settings.



7) After giving the details of CIM Settings now we can test weather we have given the details correct or

not and also this will let us know if there are any wrong entries.



Note: Only after you see a pop up where CIM setting is successful then go ahead with further steps.



8) Click on the icon shown below to test the Data Transfer from J2EE to SLD Server.

9) Click on Yes when a pop for Transfer SLD appears. This will create WEB AS java technical system

object (system object) of Portal in SLD Server. i.e. it creates an instance of J2EE engine of portal in SLD.

10) Just incase if we want to check the Portal details given, we can do so by using the tab Information.





Creating System in SLD

11) Now accessing SLD server to create Technical Landscape and JCo destination.

12) Log on to Portal with the Portal URL as

http://<servername>:<portal number>/SLD and then click in Technical System.

13) Click on New Technical System, which will create a technical system to access the backend system.

Note: Here the backend system can be anything i.e. R/3 server, CRM server or BW Server.



14) Select WEB AS-ABAP, since here we are trying to connect to R/3 Server.

Note: Select WEB AS-ABAP for R/3, CRM and BW server’s i.e. for SAP components.

Select WEB AS-JAVA for XI server.

15) Now enter SID, Installation Number and Host Name, and click Next



These details changes from system to system that you are connecting too. Check the log on pad of the server which you are connecting to get the details of the server which you are connecting.

16) Enter Message Server Port No: 3600

Instance No : 00 (System Number of the server we are connecting)

Note: Message Port number will be 3600 if instance number is 00 Similarly Message Port number will be 3601 if instance number is 01… and so on



17) Select Add Application Server and give Host Name and Instance Number (System Number) of the

server which you are connecting too.

Click Next.



18) Enter Client and Logical Client Name (LS name created in SM59)

Click Next



19) Under Product Name select SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7

Note: If it is ECC5 then select SAP ECC 5 and so on.



20) Now select the check boxes for Installed Software Components. And then click on Finish button.





Creating JCo Destination

21) Enter the following URL in the browser to create JCo’s

http://<server name>:<port number>/webdynpro

then go to Content Administrator and give the Portal Administrator credentials to log on to portal.

22) Click on the button Maintain JCo Destinations

We deploy the application in Netweaver Developer Studio there we will mention the destinations those will be displayed here (right of the screen we observe it)

Now we need to select them and we have to create JCo destinations for those applications.

For each application we have two destinations

Eg: <name> metadata

<name> modeldata

Let say Destinations: BI_METADATA & BI _MODELDATA





For Jco Meta Data Destination

23) Step a: for Meta Data i.e. BI_METADATA, select the destination and then click on Create.

24) Step b: Enter the name of the destination and client number of the server which you are connecting

and then click Next.



25) Step c: As we have given the details already when creating Technical Details, the same are refluxed

here. Just check the option User local J2EE engine “<Instance number of the Portal server>” and then click on Next.



26) Step d: Select connection type as Destination Meta Data since we are creating JCo destination for

Metadata type.



27) Step e: Select Message Server from the drop down and Logon Group.

Message Server will be the server what we have created in SLD Configuration.

Logon Group maintain as Space



For Model Data Jco Destination

28) Step f: Enter user id and password of the server which you are connecting too. Here we are connecting to R/3 system Click Next and then Finish to finish the process.

29) Repeat the steps from a to f for Application Data.

Testing the Application

30) Go to Local ( all the JCo destinations are stored here) select the application which we have created click on Run button.( on right hand side of the screen).



Related Content https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-sld

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/45/3fe8ca901f5b3ce10000000a1553f6/content.htm

For more information, visit the Portal and Collaboration homepage.


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