Preparing the System Landscape Directory
(SLD)
Use
This is a configuration steps that you have to take to manually configure SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI), only in case the automatic configuration fails.
This section only describes the necessary setup steps of an SLD server and clients used by the NWDI. In principle, this steps is performed using the SLD post installation and configuration wizard.
The SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) uses the System Landscape Directory (SLD) as the central information provider for system landscape data (such as the location of the CMS server). If an SLD server does not already exist in the system landscape, an SLD server must be installed before you can use the NWDI.
Although the technical entity of an SLD server is installed with every Application Server (AS) Java installation, it has to be activated explicitly on the appropriate Web Application Server which carries out the SLD functionalities in the system landscape.
This section only describes the necessary setup steps of an SLD server and clients used by the NWDI.
Prerequisites
The SLD is up and running.
For more
information, see
Configuring Server
Parameters.
Procedure
Perform the following steps to manually configure the SLD which is automatically performed as a configuration step.
1. Import the SAP Master Component Information
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1. On the SLD initial page, choose Administration and in the section Content → Import.
2. Choose Import Selected Content (this switch appears only before the content import has been executed once. By default, this is a step during installation).
The SLD server starts the import of the SAP Master Component Information. This process can take some time.
For the productive use of NWDI, you must also import the current updates of the SAP Master Component Information. More information: SAP Note 669669.
For more
information, see
Performing Initial
Data Import.
2. Configure the SLD Data Supplier Bridge
By default, this step is executed during installation.
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1. On the SLD initial page, choose Administration and in the section Server → Data Suppliers.
2. On the page Configure data supplier targets, set the parameter sld/active to true.
3. Set up of the Data Suppliers (Java)
The data suppliers are client-side components residing in each SAP system that are able to report actual system information of the relevant systems to the SLD server.
To fulfill the purpose of the SLD, you have to set up data suppliers for all SAP systems (this includes ABAP and Java) in the system landscape. This section only covers the configuration of the data supplier of a Java system.
To activate a Java Data Supplier (executed by default during installation):
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1. Specify the connection and logon data for the SLD server of your system landscape – if required – and save your entries.
For more
information, see
Configuring the SLD
Data Supplier and
Configuring the SLD
Client.
For security reasons, do not use any user accounts that own more permissions than DataSupplierLD for the Java data supplier. Use the J2EE role DataSupplierLD to set up a dedicated user.
2.
Trigger a data
transfer to your SLD server for test purposes. For more information, see
Connecting Other
SAP Systems to the SLD.