Registering Your Consumer Portal 

Applicable to: remote role assignment, remote delta link, WSRP application sharing

Use

To be able to consume and run content exposed by a producer portal, your consumer must be registered with the producer.

You use the Producer Registration tool to register your consumer portal with a producer portal.

Some producers may also require that you configure certain parameters as part of the registration process. The Producer Registration tool displays these parameters and allows you to enter the requested information before you register.

Registration with the Producer Registration tool is not the same as the formal WSRP-based registration that some non-SAP producer portals require. Nevertheless, when you register your portal with a consumer using this tool, formal WSRP-based registration is performed if the producer requires it.

You can use an XML script instead the Producer Registration tool in the portal to register your portal. For more information, see Using XML to Automate Federated Portal Network Tasks.

Prerequisites

●      You have access to the federated portal administration tools in the standard System Admin role on your portal.

●      You have added the producer to your portal (see Adding Producers).

●      You have been assigned at least administrator read-write permission to the producer object.

The producer may inherit the permission assigned to its parent folder in the Portal Catalog. For example, NetWeaver Content Producers or WSRP Content Producers.

●      If required by the producer, you have received the registration password. See Configuring Your Registration Password.

●      You know the P4 connection type, security protocol, host name, and port number of your consumer portal (required for remote delta link mode only).

To find the P4 port on a SAP NetWeaver 7.0 portal, use the Visual Admin to access the property sheet of the P4 Provider service (see P4 Provider Service). The P4 port number is the value displayed in the port property. For information about the properties available in the service, see P4 Provider Service. For information about accessing services in Visual Admin, see Accessing Components.

To obtain parameters for a SAP Message Server, open the Runtime tab in the Message Info service in the Visual Administrator (see Message Info Service).

●      Before registering, we recommend you check the connection to the producer using the System Connection Tests tool. See Testing the Connection to a Producer.

Procedure

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       1.      Open the producer object in the Producer Registration tool (see Registering and Unregistering Your Consumer Portal).

       2.      In the Your Consumer Name box, enter a name that identifies your portal. This name is sent to the producer upon registration. NetWeaver producers see this name in their View My Consumers screen.

To register with the producer portal, your consumer name must be a unique name on the producer. If the consumer name you entered is already in use by a different consumer portal registered with the producer, the registration fails and you will be requested to enter a different name.

       3.      In the HTTP / HTTPS Communication section, enter the protocol, host name, and port of your consumer portal. This is required by the producer portal to channel information back to your portal when fulfilling a runtime request.

If you enter the incorrect parameters, registration with the producer will still succeed. You will receive an error only at runtime when your portal attempts to retrieve and display remote content from the producer portal.

In the event you are using one or more reverse proxies in your landscape, note the following:

■       If a reverse proxy is located between the consumer and the producer, enter the protocol, host name, and port of the reverse proxy.

■       If there is no reverse proxy located between the consumer and the producer, enter the protocol, host name, and port of the consumer portal.

■       Additional configuration steps are needed when using a reverse proxy in a federated portal network landscape. For more information, see How to Set Up the Landscape for a Federated Portal Network, available on SAP Developer Network at sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/howtoguides ® SAP NetWeaver 7.0 ® User Productivity Enablement ® Running an Enterprise Portal.

       4.      (Optional) If you are consuming content as remote delta links, in the P4 Communication section, enter the P4 properties of your consumer portal, including the type of connection, security protocol, host name, and port.

Communication between the consumer and producer portals through remote delta link usage requires using the P4 port of both portals.

○       In the P4 Connection dropdown menu, choose your load balancing configuration in relation to the P4 port. Choose Load-balanced via SAP Message Server if your connection is through the SAP Message Server of your AS Java, or choose Connection String or Single Server if your connection is to a specific dispatcher node of a dedicated application server or if you are connecting to an external load balancer that is located between the two servers.

○       The Producer Registration tool does not let you enter the P4 properties of the producer portal. You do so when creating or editing the producer instance.

       5.      A producer may require that you provide additional information to register, such as a password. If so, the parameters are listed in the Registration Parameters table; enter any requested information in the table to continue.

The default registration password for NetWeaver producers is: password

       6.      Click Register.

Result

You registration status is displayed in a message on the screen. You can also view your status in the View My Producers screen (see Viewing Your Producers).

When you have registered successfully with a NetWeaver producer, you are listed in the View My Consumers screen on the producer portal.

When your consumer is registered on a producer, you can no longer change its properties, including the WSDL file path, in the Producer Editor. The editor opens in read-only mode; you are able to still change permissions, test connections, and unregister. See Editing Connection Properties to Producers.

When you reregister after unregistering an existing registration scope, the runtime functionality of any remote-based content generated beforehand on the consumer portal is restored.

If you are consuming content as remote delta links from a producer portal running on SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1, an administrator on the producer portal must use the SAP NetWeaver Administrator tool to enter your consumer P4 port in the ProducerInformationService service. For more information, see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/45/e9276c27c106f6e10000000a155369/frameset.htm.

Use this link only if you are certain that your software version matches the documentation version on the SAP Help Portal, since SAP Library documentation on SAP Help Portal always reflects the latest SAP NetWeaver support package stack (SPS) released to customers.