Use the Service Maintenance function in the Service Builder to register and maintain each service in an SAP Gateway system. This function also enables you to maintain services created and redefined directly in the Service Builder (in an SAP Business Suite back-end system) as opposed to navigating to another system such as an SAP Gateway hub system. The Service Maintenance offers the following functions:
Register the service in an SAP Gateway system.
View all the SAP Gateway systems in which the service is registered.
Navigating to SAP Gateway Client from Service Builder
View the error log of the service in the registered SAP Gateway systems.
View the service document.
View the service activation status of the service in the registered SAP Gateway systems.
Prerequisites
The SAP Gateway systems in which you want to register the service must be configured under the following path:
.To maintain a service in the Service Builder, proceed as follows:
Log onto the SAP Gateway system.
Open transaction SEGW.
The SAP Gateway Service Builder opens.
Create a new project. See Getting Started with the Service Builder for more information.
Generate the service if the service it is not already generated. See How to Generate Services for information about generating services.
Expand the Service Maintenance folder in the tree view to view the list of configured SAP Gateway hub systems.
Double-click the Service Maintenance folder to view the configured systems in the mass maintenance view.
The mass maintenance view displays the following details:
System |
These systems are the SAP Gateway hub systems configured in |
Client |
The client of the SAP Gateway hub system. |
RFC Destination |
The RFC destination of the SAP Gateway hub system. |
Registration Status |
Indicator that represents the registration status of the service in the selected system. The statuses are as follows:
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Right click the system in which you would like to register the service and select Register.
Alternatively, you can select the system and click Register in the mass maintenance view.
A message displays notifying that for Register, Maintain and viewing Error Logs you will be redirected to the selected systems.
The Select System Alias window displays.
The System Alias window displays only if there is more than one system that points to the system from which you are trying to register the service. If only one system applies, the System Alias window is not displayed since this system is selected as default.
Select the system by using the input help available for this field.
Click Continue. Add Service window displays. The details about the selected window is displayed in this window.
Enter valid package details in Package field.
Click Continue.
The service is registered and the registration status turns green in the selected system.
In the mass maintenance view, click on SAP Gateway Client to launch SAP Gateway Client.
For project of type Annotation Model for Referenced Service after registering the service, in the mass maintenance view, click Maintain Service and then click SAP Gateway Client to launch SAP Gateway.
SAP Gateway Client is open with a pre-filled request Request URI.
Request URI example for project type Service with SAP Annotations and Service with Vocabulary-Based Annotations:
/sap/opu/odata/sap/<service name>/
Request URI example for project type Annotation Model for Referenced Service :
/sap/opu/odata/iwfnd/catalogservice/Annotations(TechnicalName='<MDL_NAME>',Version='<Version>')/$value
You can also perform the following functions in the mass maintenance view:
Choose Maintain to open the Maintain Services window. See Activate and Maintain Services for more information.
Select a system, and click the Error Log button to view the error log for the service in the selected system.
Error logs for the current service are displayed for all users on the current date.