Wizard-Based Configuration
Wizard-based configuration helps you automatically configure your SAP NetWeaver CE system directly after the installation. To successfully complete your configuration successfully, you have to take dependencies between configuration tasks into account. This section gives an overview of such dependencies and how to configure SAP NetWeaver CE in relation to its main configuration scenarios.
1. Plan Your Configuration
Wizard-based configuration is conducted in the configuration wizard in SAP NetWeaver Administrator of your SAP NetWeaver CE system. The configuration wizard offers one or multiple configuration tasks for the capabilities that you have installed.
Only execute wizard-based configuration if your system has not been configured before. If you have already modified the system, or if you have upgraded from an older release, do not use the configuration wizard. In this case, use the manual steps as required.
Taking Pre-Existing Installations into Account
It is possible that you have one of the following capabilities already installed in your system landscape. If you continue to use them then they should already be configured in your system landscape and you therefore do not need to configure them on your SAP NetWeaver CE system. Additional information is given in the following table:
Capability |
Alternative
Product |
Recommendations
and Impact |
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If Alternative Product is Installed |
If Alternative Product is Not Installed |
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System Landscape
Directory |
(multiple)
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The SLD is always available after your SAP NetWeaver CE installation because it is part of the Java Application Server. However, SAP recommends that you use a pre-existing SLD in your system landscape. For more detailed recommendations, see SAP Community Network (SDN) at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-sld → Planning Guide – System Landscape Directory |
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When executing the Initial Setup configuration task for the functional unit SLD, choose remote to register the SAP NetWeaver CE system that was just installed with the SLD that was already installed. |
When executing the Initial Setup configuration task for the functional unit SLD choose local to configure the SLD delivered with SAP NetWeaver CE. |
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Enterprise Services Repository |
SAP |
Use ES Repository delivered with SAP NetWeaver PI. Skip configuration task for ES Repository. |
Use the ES Repository and NWDI of SAP NetWeaver CE if the corresponding product is not installed.
Both the configuration of the ES Repository and NWDI require SLD either already installed locally with SAP NetWeaver CE or installed remotely in your system landscape. Choose local or remote as appropriate when executing the ES Repository and NWDI configuration task. |
SAP NetWeaver
Development Infrastructure |
SAP |
If you continue to use NWDI of SAP NetWeaver 7.0, skip the NWDI configuration tasks of your SAP NetWeaver CE system. After configuring your SAP NetWeaver CE system successfully, set up development tracks in your SAP NetWeaver 7.0 system (For more information, see step 2 of section ‘3.Next Steps’). |
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Configuration Tasks of SAP NetWeaver CE
Before starting your configuration, first check to see if you have installed all the capabilities you need for your development with SAP NetWeaver CE.
The following table gives you an overview of which capability a configuration task belongs to:
Configuration Tasks by Installed Capability
Capability |
Description |
Configuration Task(s) |
JavaEE |
Java Application Server |
Initial setup of functional unit SLD Connection Configuration to Central Services Registry Services Registry Destination Creation |
ESR |
Enterprise Services Repository |
Configuration of ESR in CE |
CompPlatform |
Composition Platform |
(No configuration task available) |
Adobe |
Adobe Document Services |
Configuration of ADS on CE (if installed) |
Voice |
Voice |
(No configuration task available) |
NWDSUpdateSite |
NWDS Update Site |
Configuration and Mirroring of local NWDS Update Site |
NWDI |
SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) |
Initial setup of functional unit Development Infrastructure (DI all-in-one) Change Management Service (CMS): Create an Application Skeleton (optional) Change Management Service (CMS): Modify an Software Component (optional) |
BPM |
Business Process Management |
BPM All Configuration Tasks Combined BPM Default Configuration settings for locale and timezone) BPM Mail Server Connectivity BPM Notification Messages Configuration |
GP |
Guided Procedure |
(No configuration task available) |
For the configuration to be successful, it is essential that the configuration tasks are executed in the right order. The configuration wizard does not impose an order itself, ensure the correct sequence manually.
2. Execute the Configuration Tasks in the Right Order
The table below indicates the sequence in which configuration tasks have to be executed for the main configuration scenarios in SAP NetWeaver CE. Note that this sequence is also valid if you do the configuration manually, for example, if the configuration wizard fails.
● MIN: Minimal configuration for pure Java EE development. If you decide later on to enhance your development with additional capabilities of SAP NetWeaver CE, you can still execute the corresponding additional configuration tasks.
● NWDI: Configuration sequence to configure SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure.
● BPM: Configuration sequence to configure Business Process Management.
● SOA: Configuration sequence to configure Services Registry and ES Repository.
The numbers in the table indicate the configuration sequence that is required for each scenario. Note the following:
● You can combine configuration scenarios as long as you keep to the overall configuration sequence that is given in the second column.
● Executing the configuration of tasks marked with (opt) is optional depending on your planned usage of SAP NetWeaver CE.
● The configuration sequence of two configuration tasks is arbitrary if their numbers are the same in a configuration scenario.
● If you execute BPM configuration task BPM All Configuration Tasks Combined then it wraps all existing configuration tasks for BPM. Execute either this or the wrapped configuration tasks in the given sequence (for example, 7a, 7b, 7c).
To carry out the basic configuration steps, call the wizard-based configuration tool (more information: Configuration Wizard). When executing a configuration task, you may have to enter information like server names to complete it. More information about required information is linked in the Configuration Task column. The linked documentation also explains how you can perform the configuration manually, for example, if the configuration wizard fails.
Required Sequences Depending on Configuration Scenarios
Installed |
Overall
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Configuration Task |
Configuration Scenario |
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MIN |
NWDI |
BPM |
SOA |
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JavaEE |
1 |
Initial setup of functional unit SLD |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
2 |
Connection Configuration to Central Services Registry |
2 |
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2 |
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3 (opt) |
Services Registry Destinations Creation |
3 (opt) |
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3 (opt) |
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ESR |
4 |
Configuration of ESR in CE |
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4 |
NWDI |
5 |
Initial setup of functional unit Development Infrastructure (DI all-in-one) |
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2 |
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6 (opt) |
Change Management Service (CMS): Create an Application Skeleton (optional) |
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3 (opt) |
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6 (opt) |
Change Management Service (CMS): Modify an Software Component (optional) |
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3 (opt) |
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BPM |
7 |
BPM All Configuration Tasks Combined (wraps the following BPM tasks) |
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1 |
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7a |
BPM Default Configuration settings for locale and timezone) |
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1a |
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7b |
BPM Mail Server Connectivity |
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1b |
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7c |
BPM Notification Messages Configuration |
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1c |
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Adobe |
8 |
Configuration of ADS on CE (if installed) |
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2 (opt) |
5 (opt) |
The following configuration tasks have no dependencies to other configuration tasks:
Sequence Independent Configuration Tasks
Capability |
Configuration Task |
Adobe |
Configuration of ADS on CE (if installed) |
NWDSUpdateSite |
Configuration and Mirroring of local NWDS Update Site |
3. Next Steps
Once all the required configuration tasks have been executed successfully, proceed as follows:
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1. Check the following documentation to find out whether there are manual configuration steps required to complete your configuration. Note that the different sections include details about wizard-based configuration linked in the table above (which you can skip) but they also provide an overview of additional configuration steps. Your implementation scenarios dictates whether you have to follow these configuration steps.
○ Initial System Configuration
All configuration tasks for the Application Server Java, including the configuration of the Services Registry.
○ Configuration for CE Additional Components
All configuration tasks for the additional capabilities you have installed in your SAP NetWeaver CE system.
2. If you use the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure of SAP NetWeaver 7.0, ensure that you set up development tracks in your SAP NetWeaver 7.0 system for later use in your SAP NetWeaver CE system.
More
information:
Setting Up a Track for Composition Development in
SAP NetWeaver.
3. Get to know SAP NetWeaver CE.
More
information:
Guidelines for
Developing Composite Applications