Creating a Connector Instance
The data displayed on the BPO dashboards is read from data sources.
The logical link between the BPO dashboards infrastructure and a data source is established by a connector. The connector is instantiated once before usage for a connector type and the associated data source, by creating a connector instance. Later, during the configuration of BPO dashboards, analytical key figure instances are assigned to such a connector instance to get their data from the associated data source, so for every data source that BPO dashboards use, there must be at least one active connector instance.
The following SAP Solution Manager applications can provide data for Business Process Operations dashboards:
SAP Business Process Analytics uses the following data sources:
Analytics cube
Detail list
SAP Business Process Monitoring uses the following data sources:
Alert table
Detail list
Alert cube (if activated)
For more information about data sources, see Define Data Sources.
Procedure
To define the connector instances in the connector directory:
To navigate to the data source manager, on the launchpad, choose
Business Process Operations
. In theRelated Links
screen area, chooseMaintain BPO Reporting Infrastructure
. TheBPO Reporting Infrastructure Maintenance
screen appears.On the
Data Source Manager
tab, you can add, change, activate, or deactivate a connector instance.To create or change a connector instance, choose the corresponding connector in the upper part of the screen, and choose the connector instance in the table below.
To add, change, activate or deactivate a connector instance, choose
Change Mode
.
The system creates the following connector instances:
BPM_TwinCube_default
for the Analytics TwinCubes connector (BPM_TwinCube
)Analytics_DL_default
for the detail list connector (BPM_Detail_List
)
To activate the connector instances for use by BPO dashboards:
Choose
Change Mode
, and in theApplications
field, enter the additional entry DASHBOARD.Choose
(De)Activate
and save your entries.
If the system does not automatically create the connector instance associated with the data source for the BPO dashboards, create the connector instance manually, as follows:
Choose
Add
.For the new connector instance, enter the following information:
Name
: technical name of the connector instanceDescription
: description of the connector instancesRFC Destination
: RFC connection to SAP Solution Manager from which data is extracted for the analytical key figures in BPO dashboards. The only possible entry for this field is NONE, because a remote scenario (extracting data from a remote SAP Solution Manager) is not supported for the BPO dashboards.System
: description of the SAP Solution Manager system from which the data is extracted via RFC destination, with this connector instance. Enter the local SAP Solution Manager system.Applications
: Enter the applications that use the connector instance:To use the connector instance for dashboards, choose DASHBOARD. This entry is required for BPO dashboards.
To use the connector instance for analytics, choose ANALYTICS. This entry is required if you also want to use this connector instance for the Business Process Analytics data source (recommended).
Managed Systems
(optional): To limit the retrieval of data on certain managed systems or clients, enter the SID and client of the managed system. If no system or client is entered, data from all systems is used.
Save your entries and activate the connector instance.
Change to display mode.
Note
If you have created or changed a connector instance, refresh the browser window so that the changes take effect, before you create analytical key figures.
Note
Make sure that there is only one active connector instance per data source (connector). To avoid having more than one active connector instance, create only one connector instance per data source.
For more information about how to configure and edit connector instances, see SAP Note 1819313
.