Creating Systems

Use

You create a system in order to connect to a specific back-end application.

Features

· There are three methods for creating a new system:

¡ Use the XML profile in a deployed PARfile. For information see Running the System Landscape Wizard.

The new system inherits all the global properties defined in the PAR file component. It inherits property names, meta attributes and any default property values.

¡ Use an existing template. For information, see Running the System Landscape Wizard.

If the template was created directly from the PAR file, the new system is identical to the one generated by the first method. If the template has undergone changes, the system inherits the changes made to the property attributes in the template.

It is important that the PAR .xml contain descriptions of all properties, since the Property Editor does not support adding properties, only editing them. The properties do not all need to have default values.

At present, the way to add properties to a system is to create a new system with additional properties. For information, see SAP note 640330.

¡ Copy an existing system.

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i. In the Portal Catalog, right-click the name of the system you want to copy and choose Copy.

ii. Right-click the name of the folder to which you want to copy the system and choose <paste method>. For information about the two paste methods, see Copies and Delta Links.

A system alias cannot be copied. If you create a new system through the copy/paste method, you need to define a new system alias for it. For information, see System Aliases.

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· The procedure you use to create a system is not application-sensitive.

You run the same wizard for creating the system for any of the applications to which the portal provides connectors, or for which you have created and deployed a PAR file. The differences reside in the XML profiles, whose properties are determined by the application being defined, as each application has some unique connectivity requirements. This makes the stage of editing the system significant.