Configuring Job Control

To be able to use job control, you must configure the following:

RFC destinations for RFC connections
SAP systems communicate with each other via RFC connections.

The SAP systems communicate in both directions during the job control. The managed system receives the information to call the Web Dynpro application for job control from the SAP Solution Manager system. In SAP Solution Manager, the WD application receives the job and user information for job control from the managed system.

The following RFC connections are required in job control for these communication paths:
- An RFC connection from the SAP Solution Manager system to your managed system
- An RFC connection from your managed system back to the SAP Solution Manager
For RFC connections to work, you must specify RFC destinations. For more information about RFC destinations, see Managing RFC Connections for ABAP Technical Systems.
User-specific assignment of business partners
To authorize users of your managed systems to create job requests, you must assign business partners to them from the SAP Solution Manager system.
User-specific activation or deactivation of job control
To specify the users for whom job control is active, you must specify criteria profiles in the Criteria Manager.

Prerequisites

You have activated the WD application of Job Scheduling Management (for example, the WD applications Job request and Job Management Work Center) in Customizing of SAP Solution Manager under Capabilities (Optional) .
The user who accesses the SAP Solution Manager from the managed system (backwards RFC connection) is authorized for Job Scheduling Management (role SAP_SM_SCHEDULER_EXE).
The user who accesses the managed system from the SAP Solution Manager (forward RFC connection) is authorized to access job data (role SAP_BC_REDWOOD_COMMUNICATION).
You have integrated SAP Note 1383398 (Integration of Job Request in Transactions SM36 and SM37)

Procedure

Create and set up RFC connections to the managed system

To create an RFC connection to the managed system from the SAP Solution Manager system, set up RFC destinations for your systems.

For more information, see Managing RFC Connections for ABAP Technical Systems.

Set up RFC connections to the SAP Solution Manager

To be able to set up RFC connections to the SAP Solution Manager, you must already have created a (backwards) RFC connection to the SAP Solution Manager.

Note Note

You set up (backwards) RFC connections to the SAP Solution Manager, in Customizing for SAP Solution Manager, under Basic Settings .

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To be able to specify a (backwards) RFC connection to the SAP Solution Manager system from the managed system, later, set-up RFC BACK destinations as follows:

Open the Job Management work center.
Choose the Administration view.
To check whether an RFC BACK destination is set up for a managed system, proceeds as follows:
1. Under Back Destination, click Check Back Destination.
  A dialog box appears.
2. Choose the managed system in the dialog box. You can also specify the client.
3. Confirm with OK.
  A message at the top of the Administration view shows whether an RFC BACK destination is already set up.
To set up a new RFC BACK destination, proceed as follows:
1. Under Back Destination, click on the link Define Back Destination.
  A dialog box appears.
2. Choose the managed system in the dialog box. You can also specify the client.
3. Specify a name for the RFC BACK destination in the dialog box, under Destination.
  
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  You specify the names of the RFC BACK destinations in your SAP Solution Manager system landscape (transaction SMSY).
  
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4. Confirm with OK.
  An RFC destination for a communication connection from the managed system to the currently open system, the SAP Solution Manager system, is specified, and can now be used by the transactions SM36 and SM37 for communication with the SAP Solution Manager.

Assign business partners to users

To authorize users of your managed systems to create job requests, assign business partners to them from the SAP Solution Manager system as follows.

In Customizing for the SAP Solution Manager, under Cross-Scenario Settings perform the customizing activity Business Partner (transaction BP).
To create a new business partner, choose Person.
Choose the entry for the business partner, in the Create in GP Role field.
Enter the following, in the tab:
1. Enter at least the following data in the Address tab:
  - Title, First Name, and Last Name
  - Country
  - E-Mail Address
    
    Note
    The user can then receive E-Mails from the SAP Solution Manager system.
    
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2. To assign the the managed systems, enter the system identification data, e.g. the ID number, in the Identification tab.
  
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  Example: Building up the ID number:
  
  ID type = “CRM001”
  
  ID number = “SAP 0123456789 001 SAPUSER”
  
  Format: <system ID> <number> <client> <user>
  
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  The data in this tab is used to assign a user from a client in a managed system, to the business partner to be created. If you do not specify system identification data in this tab, this user will not be able to select a system or request a job, in the Job Control Web Dynpro application.
  
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3. Save.
To assign the business partner to an SAP Solution Manager user, choose the entry Employee in the Create GP Role field.
Enter the following on the tabs:
1. To connect the business partner to a user in a managed system, enter the personal and employee data of the user, in the Identification tab.
2. Save.

Activate or deactivate job control for users

Note Note

Prerequisite for activating or deactivating job control for users is:

You have set up RFC BACK destinations (see Set Up RFC BACK Destinations).
You have assigned a business partner (and optimally also a user) to each user of your managed systems, in the SAP Solution Manager system (see Assign Business Partners to Users).

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To specify for which users job control is to be active, set up criteria profiles in the Criteria Management application as follows (for your managed systems), and assign users to these criteria profiles:

Note Note

Criteria Management can only be called by background processing administrators (S_BTCH_ADM role).

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Open the Job Management work center.
Choose the Administration view.
In Criteria Management, click Manage Criteria Profiles and Manage Users.
A dialog box appears.
Choose the managed system in the dialog box. You can also specify the client.
Confirm with OK.

Note
If no RFC BACK destination is set up for the selected managed system, you go to a dialog box, and the procedure is cancelled.

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The ABAP Program Execution application starts.
Call the transaction for Criteria Management (CRIT).
You branch to the Criteria Management dialog box.
To create a new profile, choose the Criteria Profile and then the symbol with the quick info Add.
A dialog box appears.
Select the criteria type for creating (or requesting) jobs using SAP Solution Manager and enter an meaningful name for the profile, for exampleJob Control Activation.
Confirm with OK.
The criteria profile is created, and appears in the list.
Double-click on the entry for the new criteria profile, in the list.
The criteria for the criteria profile are displayed at the right-hand side of the screen.
To assign clients and users to the criteria profile, choose the symbol with the quick iInfo Add.
A dialog box appears.
Enter a description for the criterion, in the dialog box. Choose the client, and specify the users to whom the criteria profile is to apply.

Note
To add several users, or all users, to a criteria profile, put an asterisk (*) in the User field.

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Confirm with OK.
The criterion is created for the criteria profile.

Note
If you wish to create further profiles with the same criteria type, repeat steps 7 to 13. In this way you can create several profiles for the same criteria type for different clients or user groups.

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To activate the profiles created for job control, select the profiles in the list, and choose the symbol with the quick info Activate.
Job control is active for all users assigned to the active profile. When these users call the transaction SM36, they are automatically forwarded to the SAP Solution Manager system job control.

The job control is inactive for all other users.

More Information

For further information on job control, see SAP Note 1383398.