SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Editing Custom Operations

You edit custom operations for example to choose another button group, provide dynamic captions, or enable synchronous execution.

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation pathAutomation Studio Next navigation step Custom OperationsEnd of the navigation path.
  2. In the Actions column of the custom operation you want to edit, choose Edit Custom Operation.
  3. Optional: Adapt the name for the custom operation.
  4. Choose the name of the corresponding provider definition.
  5. Choose the entity type for which this custom operation can be executed.
  6. Optional: To check whether a specific target entity state is reached after executing the custom operation, select the Operation Changes Entity State checkbox and choose the expected target entity state. You can choose one the following target entity states:
    Entity State
    Instance Running
    Instance Initial
    Instance Not running
    Host Unreachable
    Host Available

    When you have chosen a target entity state, SAP Landscape Management creates an additional activity during execution of the custom operation that checks if the target entity state is reached. The default timeout for this activity is set to one hour.

  7. Optional: Select a default value supplier configured if you want to use generated defaults.
  8. Optional: Define the group for the custom operation. You have the following options:
    • Choose an existing group.
    • Enter a name, to create a new group.
  9. Optional: Enter a dynamic caption that you want to display on the Activities and Logs tabs.
  10. Choose the permission required by the user to perform custom operations on the entities:

    • None

    • Normal

    • Forced

    • Critical

  11. Optional: To perform the custom operation on more than one entity, select the Valid for Mass Operations checkbox.
  12. Optional: To lock the particular instance or host to prevent it from being used by another user, select the Locks Instance or Host checkbox.
  13. Optional: To execute the custom operation synchronously, select the Synchronous Execution checkbox.
  14. Optional: To use this custom operation only for validation purposes, select the Validation Operation checkbox.
  15. Optional: To receive the mount data of the instance in a temporary XML file, select the Use Mount Data XML checkbox.

    The path to the XML file is passed as parameter MOUNT_XML_PATH.

  16. Optional: To prevent a standalone execution of this custom operation, select the Not applicable for Standalone Execution checkbox.

    In order to execute custom operations that are not applicable for standalone execution, you have to add these custom operations for example to a custom process.

  17. Choose Save Operation.

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