SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Adding Parameters

You specify your own parameters for custom operations on instances, custom operations on hosts, custom hooks, custom processes, or system provisioning replacements.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation pathAutomation Studio Next navigation step Provider DefinitionsEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Choose the provider definition for which you want to specify your own parameters.
  3. On the Parameters tab, choose Add Parameter.
  4. Enter an identifying and unique name for the parameter.

    SAP Landscape Management passes the name with the prefix PARAM-

  5. Optional: Specify a display name to be displayed on the user interface, other than the one specified for the parameter.
  6. Choose the parameter type.
  7. Enter the values that are valid during execution.

    You can enter Java regular expressions specifying the permitted input values.

  8. Optional: To supply the parameter for execution, select the Mandatory checkbox.
  9. To hide the values from the SAP Landscape Management logs, select the Secure checkbox.

    All secure parameters are passed together in one single parameter named LVM_SEC_PARAMS as PARAM- <Name>= <value> .

    Each parameter is contained in a new line along with the secure customer properties of the instance.

  10. Optional: Enter a meaningful description for the parameter.
  11. To enter or select multiple values, select the Accepts Multiple Values checkbox.

    You separate multiple values using #.

    The parameters specified are presented to and prompted from the user executing the custom operation, custom process, or provisioning process.

  12. Choose Save Parameter.