Mapping Indicators with an External System

You perform this activity to retrieve the indicator values of your equipment from an external system of type SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things for the Cloud Foundry Environment or SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things for the Neo Environment. When you have equipment data or machine data existing in an external system, you can retrieve that data by mapping your equipment with the external system.

Prerequisites

The external system in question is already configured with SAP Asset Intelligence Network. For more information, see Configuring External Systems.
Your user ID either belongs to the group ORG_ADMIN or ORG_DATA_EXPERT, or has the roles EQUIPMENT_DELETE or EQUIPMENT_EDIT assigned.

For more information, see Roles for SAP Cloud Platform - Neo Environment
You have created an item of equipment. Equipment must be in Fully Operational or Partially Operational phase. For more information, see Creating a Piece of Equipment
You have created indicators from the Templates app, and the equipment in question has inherited this template. For more information, see Adding Indicator Groups and Indicators.

Context

In this procedure, you map indicators of equipment between an external system and SAP system.

Procedure

Launch the Equipment application.
Open the item of equipment in question.
In the Monitoring tab, go to Indicators section.
Select the relevant indicator and click Map Indicators.

In the Map Indicators window, enter the following:

Field	Description
System Name	Choose the name of the external system. For example: PdMS
Equipment	The corresponding equipment name in the external system.

Under the Indicators section, select an indicator and choose the corresponding indicator from the listed equipment indicators (external system) by choosing Map.
Choose Save.

You see that the new indicator values appear on the Equipment object page.

Note
In order to unmap an indicator go to,Monitoring Indicators Map Indicators select the indicator form the indicator list, and choose the corresponding delete/close icon.