Workflow: Remote Role Assignment

Use

Content usage mode: remote role assignment

Applies to: producers, consumers

Note

If your portal is running SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment without usage type EP Core - Application Portal (EPC), ignore this topic and read Workflow: Remote Role Assignment instead.

This topic describes the activities that must be performed by administrators on a producer and consumer portal to enable remote role assignment from a consumer portal.

For more information about this content usage mode, see 'Remote Role Assignment' Mode .

Prerequisites

You have completed the post-installation and basic configuration steps on each portal. The portals must be fully operational.
You have fulfilled the minimal prerequisites for implementing FPN in your landscape. For more information, see Prerequisites .
The user bases of the portals adhere to the requirements described in User Persistence .

Process

The following table lists the sequence of activities performed by administrators on the producer and consumer portals.

Some activities need to be performed by the producer before the consumer can proceed and vice versa. Steps marked with the same number in both columns indicate that the steps can be performed by the producer and the consumer in any order or in parallel.

Note

It is assumed that both portals are running the same SAP NetWeaver release.

If you are connecting your SAP NetWeaver Portal to an SAP NetWeaver Portal running a different release, do not use the respective documentation links provided in the table below. Instead, refer to the FPN documentation for that release on SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com .

For example, you can find documentation for implementing a federated portal network in an SAP NetWeaver 7.0 environment with SAP enhancement package 1 at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/5b/9f2d4293825333e10000000a155106/frameset.htm. Remember that the SAP Library documentation on SAP Help Portal always reflects the latest SAP NetWeaver support package stack that has been released to customers.

Tasks on the Producer Portal	Tasks on the Consumer Portal
1. Configure proxy settings	1. Configure proxy settings
2. Set up trust with consumer (using SSO wizard) Note This step can be performed later, but must be completed before the consumer can consume remote roles from the producer. Alternatively, you can use the FPN Trust tool in the portal. More information: Setting Up Trust Using the FPN Trust Editor	2. Set up trust with producer (using SSO wizard) Note This step can be performed later, but must be completed before the consumer can consume remote roles from the producer. Alternatively, you can use the FPN Trust tool in the portal. More information: Setting Up Trust Using the FPN Trust Editor
3. Configure your registration password (optional)
4. Set user permissions and UME actions to local portal roles
	5. Create an FPN connection, test the connection, configure trust, and register with remote producer Note The producer portal can also create the FPN connection, configure trust (if not configured already), and register the systems.
	6. Assign administrator permissions to FPN connection (optional)
	7. Test integrity of remote role assignment configuration (optional)
	8. Assign local users to remote roles
	9. Assign end-user permission to FPN content
10. Assign end-user permissions to business users
	11. Optimize your caching configuration
	12. Optimize your consumer profile
13. Map users on producer (optional)
	14. (Optional) Enabling remote roles as portal search suggestions