Technical Settings

Depending on the connection type, you can make various basic settings on this tab page for the target system and the gateway or HTTP proxy.

Make the following settings:

Connection types: ABAP, R/2, Internal, Logical, CMC, TCP/IP, ABAP Driver (3, 2, I, L, M, T, X)

• Load Balancing (Type 3 only)

  If you choose load balancing, you must specify the following information:

  • Target system (For a list of available servers, log on to the target system and choose  Administration  System Administration  Monitor  System Monitoring  Server - Transaction SM51 ).

  • Message server (log on to the target system and choose  Control/Monitoring  Control Panel (transaction RZ03)  from the CCMS main menu. The message server is the server that offers service M.

  • Group (SAP Logon Group of Servers)

  If you choose load balancing, you must specify the following information (only type 3, I and L):

  • Target host

    The name of a server host of the target system that you want to use as a port to the system.

  • System Number

    Communications service used with the target system. To obtain it, choose  Administration  System Administration  Monitor  System Monitoring  Server (transaction SM51 ).

    Note

    For connection type L, do not enter the target host and system number. Instead, enter the alias for the corresponding destination

    For connection type X, enter the ABAP driver program instead of the target host.

• Gateway options

  • Gateway host

    Specify the gateway host that you want to use to establish the connection.

  • Gateway service

    Enter the relevant gateway service.

Connection types HTTP/External and HTTP/ABAP (G, H)

• Target host

  The name of a server host of the target system that you want to use as a port to the system.

• Service number

  Specifies the communication service used in the target system. To obtain it, choose  Administration  System Administration  Monitor  System Monitoring  Server .

• Path prefix

  You can use this path to select and call the HTTP Request Handler.

  Note

  The path specification corresponds to the corresponding service path in transaction SICF.

• HTTP Proxy Options

  Here you can define various data for the proxy host:

  • Name

  • Service

  • Users

  • Password

  Note

  You can perform the general HTTP proxy configuration in main screen for the transaction by choosing  Extras  HTTP Proxy Configuration .