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Procedure documentationUsing the CTS Plug-In Management Web UI

 

The Change and Transport System - Plug-in Management Web UI allows you to distribute the CTS Service and CTS Bootstrapper plug-ins from the CTS server to the managed systems in your transport landscape. For non-ABAP systems, the plug-ins are distributed to the ABAP communication system of the non-ABAP system.

The CTS Service plug-ins contain analysis functions for downgrading and overtaker requests based on object overlaps. The CTS Bootstrapper plug-in is required for activation.

The functions of the CTS Service plug-in may be required for downgrade protection functions in Change Control Management. Use the Plug-in Management Web UI to distribute the plug-ins if the system tells you to do so.

For more information on the CTS plug-in and the distribution of the CTS Service plug-ins, see Technical Details on the CTS Plug-In.

For more information on the downgrade protection functions, see Downgrade Protection.

Note Note

If you use Change Request Management with the central CTS infrastructure you do not require the CTS Plug-In Management Web UI to distribute CTS plug-ins. Instead, you can use the Central CTS Configuration Web UI which is also used to configure central CTS. For more information on central CTS, see Central Change and Transport System.

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Prerequisites

  • The CTS plug-in (software component CTS_PLUG) is installed on your SAP Solution Manager. This is done automatically as part of the SAP Solution Manager installation. For more information see SAP Note 1665940Information published on SAP site.

  • A specific RFC destination is required between the CTS server (SAP Solution Manager) and the managed systems to which you want to distribute the plug-ins, the import destination. For this, a SAP Solution Manager destination is re-used which was created during Managed Systems Configuration in SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP). If the Plug-In Management Web UI tells you that the import destination is missing, check that the RFC destinations in your SAP Solution Manager configuration are correctly configured.

  • If the managed systems are not part of the SAP Solution Manager transport domain or if they are not linked to the SAP Solution Manager domain with a domain link, you must initially import the CTS Bootstrapper plug-in manually in the managed systems. Afterwards, you can automatically distribute the CTS plug-ins.

    For more information, see SAP Note 1688276Information published on SAP site.

  • You have the correct authorizations.

    For more information, see Plug-In Management Web UI - Authorizations.

Procedure

  1. Start the Plug-in Management Web UI in your CTS server (SAP Solution Manager).

    For more information, see Starting the Plug-in Management Web UI and Plug-In Management Web UI - Layout.

  2. Select the systems to which you want to distribute the plug-in and validate their status.

    Before you distribute the CTS Service and CTS Bootstrapper plug-ins, validate the system to find out whether all prerequisites are met to distribute the plug-ins. The system displays the overall result using a traffic light icon in the Status column. You can display more information using the link in the Status column. The dialog box displays a list of status messages. If you select a status message in the upper area of the dialog box, the long text of the message is displayed in the lower area of the dialog box.

  3. Distribute the plug-ins.

    If the system has found that the plug-ins are not up-to-date you must distribute them. Distributing the plug-ins means importing transport requests into the managed systems. For non-ABAP systems this means importing the transport requests in the ABAP communication system of the non-ABAP system.

    For more information, see Plug-In Management Web UI - Distributing CTS Plug-Ins.

More Information

Technical Details on the CTS Plug-In