What is the URL to Login Redwood?
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Prerequisites
To access SAP CPS the following is required:- a web browser
- a username/password with appropriate authorizations
- a URL
Redwood Login URL: http://<hostname>:5<nr>00/scheduler/ui
- <hostname> is the hostname of the SAP NetWeaver system where SAP CPS is installed.
- <port> is the HTTP port of the SAP NetWeaver system.
Procedure
- Enter the URL into the browser's address bar. A pop up window that requires
a username and password to log-on with appears.
- If a pop-up blocker is installed, a blank page with Please log in gets loaded, choose Please log in.
- Enter the username and password.
- Choose Log on.
How to Start SAP CPS Redwood RFC Server ?
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The SAP CPS RFC server allows ABAP stacks to connect to SAP CPS and interact
with the scheduler. The SAP CPS interfaces with the SAP Applications API. At the
time of this writing, the following SAP components have been optimized for SAP
CPS RFC server.
You start the RFC server by setting the process
server parameter SAP_EnableRfcServer to true on the process server that belongs to the SAP
System which will connect to the RFC server. You can connect to multiple SAP CPS
process servers to a single SAP instance and you can enable an RFC server for
each of them, however, when this is the case you should set the process server
parameter SAP_API_DefaultScheduler for each, it should be set to false on all SAP process servers except one, which is
the default scheduler for the SAP Applications API of that SAP instance. The
value of this scheduler parameter is set to true
by default.
Procedure
Enabling the RFC server in SAP CPS- Navigate to Environment > Process Servers
- Choose Edit from the context menu of the process server belonging to the SAP Instance you want to connect from.
- On the Parameters tab, choose New.
- Fill SAP_EnableRfcServer into the Name field and true into the Value field.
- If there are more process servers with the RFC server enabled connecting to
this instance:
- Choose New, fill SAP_API_DefaultScheduler into the Name field, and true or false into the Value field, only one SAP API default scheduler is allowed per SAP instance.
- Choose Save & Close.
- Choose Stop from the context menu of the process server, wait for the process server to be marked as Shutdown in the ui.
- Choose Start from the context menu of the process server.
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How To Create RFC to Redwood CPS
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Creating an RFC Destination to SAP CPS Redwood
- Open transaction SM59.
- Choose Create from the Edit menu.
- Fill in a name into the RFC Destination field.
- Fill T into the Connection Type field.
- Fill in a description.
- On the Technical Settings tab choose Registered Server Program.
- Fill <username>-<isolationgroup_partition>.<isolationgroup>@<SAP CPS_server>-<SAP_client>
- Fill in the Gateway Host and Gateway service fields with name of the gateway and the service of the current SAP instance.
- Save, choose Test Connection and wait for the result, if the result is OK, you have successfully configured the connection.
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How to control PI Communication Channels with SAP CPS
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You configure SAP CPS to control communication channels by creating a user in the NetWeaver AS JAVA with the required authorizations and use this user in SAP CPS to connect to the SAP instance via the PI interface.
Prerequisites
- You switched to external control in the Communication Channel Monitor.
- You created a user in NetWeaver, in Visual Administrator for example, and assigned the xi_af_channel_admin_display and xi_af_channel_admin_modify roles to the sap.com/com.sap.aii.af.app*AdapterFramework application for the user.
Procedure
Configure SAP CPS to control the communication channels:- Navigate to Environment > SAP System.
- Choose Edit from the context menu of the SAP System.
- On the J2EE tab, select PI and enter the username and password of the user you created previously in SAP NetWeaver.
- Choose Save & Close.
- Navigate to Environment > Process Servers and restart the process server belonging to the SAP instance.
Note
If you have the Free of Charge license, you cannot use a same SAP System to
connect to two or more of the following interfaces: JXBP, XBP and PI.
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Redwood Configuration Steps to connect to SAP satellite systems
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The SAP module allows you to connect to SAP Systems, and provides the default SAP job definitions.
SAP CPS requires an RFC user on every SAP AS (ABAP) system with specific privileges and connection details which are stored in SAP Systems repository objects.
- Setting up XBP 2.0 functionality on SAP Systems offering XBP 2.0.
- Setting up an SAP RFC user with the necessary privileges and connecting to SAP Systems.
- Using the default SAP job definitions
- Setting up Message Driven Beans Scheduling
The following two combinations are frequently used:
Connection to a message server
MSHOST=<MS host> R3NAME=<SID> GROUP=<group>
Connection to a central or dialogue instance
ASHOST=<CI/DI-hostname> SYSNR=<Sys-Number> TRACE=0
Configuration
The configuration for each SAP System is managed through the Environment > SAP Systems view. No standard SAP Systems are provided with SAP CPS.For each SAP System, you can configure the following:
- General settings like name and RFC connect string.
- One or more client connections for the XBP interface.
- Zero or more job control rules.
- Zero or one client connection for the XAL interface.
- Zero or one client connection for the XMW interface.
- Multiple Event Synchronization rules (requires XBP 3.0)
- One JXBP connection (in isolated mode, you cannot have two or more of XBP, PI/XI or JXBP connections in the same SAP CPS object; see the license restrictions below)
- One PI/XI connection (in isolated mode, you cannot have two or more of XBP, PI/XI or JXBP connections in the same SAP CPS object; see the license restrictions below)
Likewise, you need to set up accounts in the JAVA stack for JXBP (Java Scheduler connectivity) and PI/XI (SAP Communication Channel connectivity).
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How to Check your Redwood License
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A license enables certain licensed features, features that require a license item include:
- Scripting module
- Mail module
- SNMP module
- Import/Export module
- Expiration date
- Number of SAP Systems
- Number of platform agents
When you lack a license key, that license key will automatically have the value of false.
Navigate to Configuration > License Keys to inspect your license.
Your license should look similar to the one below:
Module.Scripting true Module.ImportExport true ProcessServerService.External.limit 100 ProcessServerService.OS.limit 100 ProcessServerService.SAP.limit 2 company.contract SLA-MSLN-PROD-1 company.name Masalan Inc product.expiry 20100630 request.requesting_version M37 signature 1;a300a310a300600a318a319a320a321a330a330400a33020040.id |
Note:
In the above license, the licensee can create 100 external schedulers in
total, that could mean 100 OS process servers and no SAP process servers or 98
OS process servers and 2 SAP process servers, for example. It does not
mean that the licensee can create 102 (100 OS and 2 SAP) process servers.
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Redwood Technical System Landscape
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SAP CPS runs in AS Java of SAP NetWeaver AS. The system where it runs is called the SAP CPS server system. It connects to the remote systems where jobs should be executed.
SAP CPS provides the Scheduler user interface running on the SAP CPS server system. It is the central point of control for the all the jobs in the job scheduling landscape. By using the Scheduler UI, you schedule jobs on the SAP CPS server system. When the start conditions for a job or job chain are fulfilled, SAP CPS executes it in the respective remote system.
Integration
By using a set of external SAP interfaces, SAP CPS integrates with:The remote SAP systems where jobs should run and be monitored
The SAP system for Central Monitoring where it reports monitoring data.
How many versions of Redwood available?
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There are two versions of SAP CPS, the Free of Charge version, which ships with
SAP software and covers the functionality of transactions SM36 and
SM37, and the Chargeable version, which allows extended SAP scheduling as
well as integration of non-SAP processes, amongst other things.
The following table illustrates the main differences between the two version. A
complete list of differences can be found in the Different
Versions section of the documentation.
Capability | SAP CPS (Free of Charge) | SAP CPS (Chargeable) | Description |
Manage ABAP jobs | Yes | Yes | Standard ABAP scheduling using XBP. With the Free of Charge version any number of SAP Systems can be managed but only within each instance/client combination. No cross SAP client, cross SAP System or non-SAP scheduling is possible with the Free of Charge version. |
Basic SAP Solution Manager integration | Yes | Yes | SAP job monitoring. Synchronize and visualize CCMS or Solution Manager Monitors (XAL/XMW). Also allows system-wide monitoring for one user. |
Basic SAP BI integration | Yes | Yes | Submit and monitor BI process chains and info packages. Visualize parent and child chains. |
SAP PI/XI integration | Yes | Yes | Control SAP communication channels and document conversions. |
Extended SAP Solution Manager integration | No | Yes | Allows business process management (BPM) and change management integration. |
SAP BI Process Chain restart | No | Yes | Allows restart of BI process chains from given point within the chain. |
SAP Financial Closing Cockpit integration | Allows automation of closing processes to be managed by Closing Cockpit users. Requires SAP Financial Closing Cockpit from SAP. | ||
Backwards compatibility with older XBP versions | No | Yes | Allows use of Redwood transports to enable enhanced capability for older versions of XBP (SAP Basis 4.6A and lower). The Free of Charge version will be limited to the capabilities of the XBP release. For more information on XBP releases, see the Understanding The Different XBP Interface Releases section. |
Load balancing of SAP jobs | No | Yes | Targets workload at lowest usage SAP application servers. Does not just use round robin approach. |
Import / Export SAP CPS objects | No | Yes | Migrate processes from DEV to QA to production. |
Automate Operating System jobs | No | Yes | Schedule non-SAP processes across your entire data center. Requires relevant OS platform agent on each managed server (Windows, Linux, UNIX, and HP OpenVMS). |
Process Server (Platform Agent) based load balancing | No | Yes | Uses Redwood monitoring tree to determine where to run workload (CPU, paging rate etc). Requires more than one Platform Agent. |
Manage non-SAP application jobs | No | Yes | Using suitable interface for application (typically CLI). |
Manage file events | No | Yes | Detect incoming files and trigger workload. |
Manage non-SAP events | No | Yes | Detect and respond to events external to SAP (for example job status change). |
RedwoodScript | No | Yes | Allows programming access to SAP CPS using Java. |
Send email | No | Yes | Job definition to send an email directly from SAP CPS |
Send SNMP trap | No | Yes | Job definition to send an SNMP trap directly from SAP CPS |
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What does SAP CPS Redwood do?
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SAP CPS is an event-driven process automation and scheduling tool.
It provides the following facilities:
- Event-driven process automation.
- Asynchronous workload management.
- Complex process flows.
- Business driven schedules.
- Workload routing and load balancing.
- Monitoring and managing present and future workload.
- History, logging, and auditing of previously executed work.
SAP Redwood License Screens
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How to generate SAP Redwood License Key
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