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You use the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) virtual server connectors to query data on another SAP MII instance without configuring a direct connection to the data source. A virtual server allows SAP MII instances to pass data to each other as if each was directly connected to the other server's data source. You use virtual servers when you are spanning large distances across a network. They limit the load on the network since data is transferred using an efficient binary protocol.

Features

A virtual server provides the same capabilities as the underlying connector; however, the virtual server uses a data server on another SAP MII instance as the data source. The capabilities are dependent on the underlying connector.

The following table describes properties of an SAP MII virtual server:

Property

Description

Connector

Virtual server connectors include the following:

  • VirtualAlarm

  • VirtualIDBC

  • VirtualOLAP

  • VirtualTAG

  • VirtualXML

  • VirtualXacute

  • VirtualPCoConnector

  • VirtualCatalogConnector

Connector Type

The connector type is based on the virtual server type.

Connector types include the following:

  • SQL

  • Tag

  • Alarm

  • XML

  • XCT

  • OLP

Description

Information only.

Enabled

Indicator used to activate the server.

IP

IP address of the remote server; the machine name in most networks.

LegacyURL

Indicator for using an 11.x server in the URL. If selected, the URL includes /Lighthammer/ and not /XMII/.

Port

Port number on which the remote SAP MII server is listening.

Protocol

Http is the default setting.

If you are using a secure socket layer (SSL), you can enter https.

RemoteLoginName

Name used to log on to the remote server and access data when a query is executed against it.

The local user account is not used at the remote server. The name must have proper permissions at the remote server or the queries are not executed.

RemoteLoginPassword

Password for the RemoteLoginName.

RemoteLoginServer

Data source, or server name, in the remote SAP MII server configuration.

RemoteServerName

Virtual server at the local SAP MII server.

ServerPackage

An internal system setting that cannot be edited.

TZOffset (time zone offset)

Used to correct time differences (in minutes) between the local SAP MII server and the remote server. See an example below.

The time zone offset only works with applets.

Example Example

You are working on a server in Michigan (TimeZone = EST, GMT-5) and want to retrieve data from a server in California (TimeZone = PST, GMT-8).

You want to know the California data from the Michigan first shift time period. If you set the TZOffset to -180 (three hours later), you use local time period = FirstShift in your query. The FirstShift time period is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST (GMT-5). The query runs in California from 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM and the resulting data are returned to the Michigan server.

If you want the data from the first shift in California, set the TZOffsetvalue to zero.

End of the example.