Configuring a Domain 

Use

To give your transport landscape a structure, you first need to create a domain. In this domain, you create the individual tracks for the development of your software components, and then connect them to make a transport landscape.

Prerequisites

●      You have installed a System Landscape Directory (SLD) and entered the required data. The Change Management Service (CMS) user is known to SLD and has write authorizations.

●      In SLD, you have created an entry for a Name Server.

●      In SLD, you have created the software components that you want to develop.

Procedure

In a standard installation, the domain is created automatically by the Configuration Wizard. The system ID (SID) is used as both the CMS name and the domain ID. For more information about naming the domain ID, see Naming Conventions.

If you are working with proxy settings in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, you must enter fully specified URLs in the URL fields of the domain configuration. If you do not do this, the Developer Studio cannot communicate with SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).

To configure the domain, enter the following data:

Parameters for the Domain Configuration

Parameter Name	Meaning
CMS Name	Name of your CMS. The CMS name is user-defined, but must be unique within your transport landscape.
CMS Description	Description of the CMS with which you are working.
CMS URL	HTTP address of the AS Java on which your CMS is installed.
CMS User	User that you use to log on to the individual components (SLD, DTR, CBS) in NWDI. This user must have administration rights in all components.
CMS Password	Password assigned to the CMS user.
Transport Directory	Directory where the transports are processed within this domain. The transport directory must be accessible from all cluster nodes in AS Java.
Domain ID	Technical key of your domain You can choose this key only when you create the domain for the first time. Once you save it, it can not be changed again.
Domain Name	Name of your domain. The domain name must identify the domain uniquely.
Domain Description	Description of the domain.
SLD URL	HTTP address of the AS Java on which the SLD is installed.

Choose Save Domain.

Result

CMS generates a domain and gets the existing software components from SLD.

This action can take several minutes, but is only necessary when you create the domain for the first time. If you modify the domain parameters later, or if you update the software components, the two actions are split from each other.