Services

A service executes jobs, and creates job files. A service can be started and stopped independently of other services. When a process server is stopped, all services are stopped. When a process server is started, all of its services are also started. Most services are related to job definition types; when you assign a job definition type to a process server, the required service is automatically assigned to the process server.

In some circumstances, you might want to assign a service but no job definition type to a process server, for example, when the process server is only used for file events.

Process servers are part of the Environment section in the navigation bar. The following standard process servers are provided with SAP CPS:

Actions

Process servers support the following actions:

It is not possible to delete a process server when it is in status Running. You must first stop the process server.

Process server parameters have two values, a Current value that is being used by the process server right now and a Desired value, which is the one that will be used after a restart of the process server. These will be different if you edit the parameters on a running process server but do not restart it. The Desired value reflects this change and makes it clear that a change has been made, but is not yet being used. Before you restart a process server in a production environment, it is recommended to check the Desired values of the parameters.

Errors and Operator Messages

Process servers raise operator messages in the central 'Operator Messages' system when they encounter warnings and errors. You should check the operator message log if a process server appears not to be behaving correctly, after changing a process server (or the related SAP System), or if a process server does not start.

Deleting Process Servers

You can only delete process servers when no other objects relate to them. For example, if there are still jobs that ran on the process server, then it cannot be deleted until all jobs have been deleted. You can see all jobs that relate to the process server in the Related Objects in the lower detail pane and on the show page.

Security

You can grant privileges on two levels, Access and Admin; a privilege granted on Admin level allows the grantee to grant the privilege to other users. These privileges can be granted system-wide, per partition or isolation group.

If you have the security module, which requires the Module.Security license key, you have an additional Security tab on the process server. It allows you to specify which users can access, edit, and delete the process server.