SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Executing Post-Copy Automation Standalone

You execute post-copy automation (PCA) standalone to carry out several configuration steps on a system that was not provisioned by SAP Landscape Management.

Prerequisites

Context

You can use post-copy automation for the following use cases:

Use Case

Description

Task List Execution

After the homogeneous or heterogeneous system copy has finished, you have to carry out several cleanup and configuration steps on the target system. The data cleanup is required to delete the content of tables that contain source system information in the target system. This prevents the target system from interfering with the source system and other connected systems. You can use post-copy automation to run the required cleanup and configuration steps automatically.

Export

The system refresh is done to overwrite an already existing target system with the latest data from a source system while keeping the configuration. To prevent overwriting the target system configuration, you need to export the target system tables that contain configuration information before you start the system copy. You can use post-copy automation to run the required export steps automatically.

Import

The system refresh is done to overwrite an already existing target system with the latest data from a source system while keeping the configuration. To prevent overwriting the target system configuration, you need to export the configuration information before the system copy export and import it again into the target system after the system copy has finished. You can use post-copy automation to run the required import steps automatically.

Procedure

  1. Choose Provisioning.
  2. Choose Systems from the tabs.

    The system displays the following:

    • Systems enabled for cloning, copying, and renaming

    • Systems enabled for SAP HANA system replication configuration

    • Cloned and copied systems

    • Systems enabled for application server (un-)installation

    • Systems enabled for Diagnostics Agent (un-)installation

  3. From the Provisioning dropdown for the system on which you want to execute PCA, choose Standalone PCA.
  4. Navigate through the workflow by following the instructions on the screen.
    • If one of the following steps, sections, or fields is not applicable, it is not displayed or not eligible for selection in the roadmap.

    • If the validation generated one or more warnings, the navigation to a following step is canceled. To ignore warnings, choose the Ignore warnings for this step button and choose Next to proceed with the following steps.

    • To validate the data entered in one of the workflow steps without triggering a navigation, choose the Validate Step button.

    • To reset one of the workflow steps to its default values, choose the Reset Step button.

  5. Choose Execute.

Results

The monitoring screen appears, where you can view the log of all tasks involved in the process.