Management Services

Use

The management services provide various services for configuring PCo, for starting and stopping agent instances, and for accessing the log. They are required for connecting PCo to SAP MII and for the Remote Client. (See also: Remote Client.)

Procedure

Choose a suitable free port number for the services and select the Activecheckbox.
In the Host Name field, enter the name of the server on which you have installed PCo. We recommend that you use the fully qualified server name here. You can generate this automatically by choosing Generate Fully Qualified Host Name (to the right of the Host Name field).
Note

The name that you define here for the server is also used as the host name for the following PCo applications:
- As host name for the WebSocket server
- As internal host name for the socket connections to SAP MII
Usage of the same host name increases the reliability of the data connections and creates the prerequisite for using PCo in high availability data clusters. Furthermore, PCo configurations can be exchanged more easily between installations because the dependency of the configuration on the host name is no longer a factor.
If you want to set up a secure connection using TLS, select the Use TLS for Connections checkbox and select a server certificate with a private key in the Certificate field. The server certificate must be suitable for server and client authentication and should ideally have been issued by your organization's intermediate certificate authority.

Note

When the configuration is saved, PCo assigns the selected certificate to the configured port using the command netsh http add sslcert. If you deactivate TLS, PCo executes the command netsh http delete sslcert in the background to remove the certificate from the port. The system displays the details of the executed command and the resulting output in an information message.
PCo generates the URL required for Web service access from the server name and port. The URL is static and is formatted as follows: http://<server>:<port>/PCoManagement. If you have enabled TLS for a secure connection, the URL starts with https.

By choosing the Copy WSDL URL to Clipboard pushbutton, you can copy the WSDL URL for Plant Connectivity to the clipboard and from there enter it into the address row of a browser or another configuration dialog.
If you choose the Open WSDL URL in Internet Browser pushbutton, you can open the WSDL URL, which is provided by the Management Host, in the browser.