Central CTS Configuration Web UI - Layout 
The Central Change and Transport System (central CTS) Configuration Web UI provides an overview of all systems and system clusters that belong to your transport landscape. It displays the configuration status of systems and clusters with respect to central CTS.
You can use the Central CTS Configuration Web UI to perform all tasks that are necessary for configuring the systems for central CTS.
For some screen elements, quick help is available. Quick help provides additional explanation of the screen elements, mainly for inexperienced users. A green line below the text indicates that quick help is available. To enable quick help, right-click anywhere on the screen and choose Display Quick Help. If you have installed the documentation for the CTS plug-in, you can call the SAP Library documentation using 
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Features
Layout
The Central CTS Configuration Web UI is divided into a Search Criteria area in the top half of the screen and a Search Result and Work Area (Work Area) in the lower half.
The search area allows you to search for system clusters or systems according to specific criteria. This enables you to reduce the number of systems displayed in the work area. The search area is hidden by default.
At the left side of the Work Area, a small black triangle is displayed. Clicking on the triangle opens a small box that contains Related Links to important functions that you may need to configure central CTS, such as RFC Destination Maintenance. Clicking on a link in the box opens the corresponding function using SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) for HTML.
Work Area
The work area displays all systems and system clusters of your transport landscape that have been found according to the search criteria you specified in the search area. The work area allows you to perform the actual tasks that are required for configuring the systems for central CTS.
Validating the systems is the starting point in the Central CTS Configuration Web UI. The validation evaluates whether the systems can be configured for use with central CTS. The results of the validation are displayed using traffic light icons in the Status column and by using text messages. If actions need to be performed, the text is displayed as a link that either leads to additional explanation or allows you to perform the required action.
The Status column gives an overall status of the results of the validation for the system or cluster.
The following functions are available in the toolbar:
Function | Description | More information |
|---|---|---|
Validate | Starts a validation for the selected systems and system clusters | |
| Allows you to create system clusters and/or assign systems to existing clusters, as well as delete existing clusters | |
Distribute Configuration | Allows you to distribute the TMS configuration to all systems in the transport domain | |
Display as: | Allows you to switch the layout of the work area between Hierarchical List and Flat List. | |
Filter | Allows you to filter the elements displayed in the work area according to different criteria. | |
Refresh | Refreshes the data of all elements displayed in the work area. | Central CTS Configuration Web UI - Searching and Refreshing Data |
Personalize | Allows you to personalize the layout of the work area according to your needs. This includes setting the number of visible rows and changing the order of the columns in the table as well as hiding columns that you do not need. |
The following traffic light icons exist:
Status | Tooltip Text | Description |
|---|---|---|
Green light | Configuration is up-to-date | The system has been configured for central CTS. It can be used with central CTS. |
Red light | See details - Validation completed with errors | Some configuration steps are missing for the system to be used with central CTS or the system cannot be used at all with central CTS. For example, if the release or Support Package level of the system is not supported, it cannot be used with central CTS. |
Yellow light | Cannot be validated | This status is for clusters that do not contain any systems. |
Grey light | Not yet validated | The system has not yet been validated since you have started the Central CTS Configuration Web UI. |
The following tasks have to be performed on request if the system displays a related error message:
Task | Description | More information |
|---|---|---|
Setting TMS parameters | To be able to use central CTS, the system requires specific TMS parameters. If these are not set correctly, you must set them. A detailed description is provided on how to set them. | |
Creating RFC connections | To be able to communicate with the managed systems, specific RFC connections between the central CTS server and the managed systems are required. If the RFC connections have not been created, you must do this. A detailed description is provided on how to create them. | |
Updating plug-ins | To be able to use the up-to-date functions of central CTS in the managed systems, the current version of the CTS Service and CTS Bootstrapper plug-ins must exist there. You can update them by clicking on the corresponding link. |
More Information
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