For the selected application, define its back-end connections. Mobile platform supports one primary endpoint per application ID. However, an administrator can create multiple secondary endpoints for services used by the application; Mobile platform treats secondary endpoints as proxy connections. For applications that access a Web service containing relative URLs, add the relative paths to enable the server to handle requests correctly.
Field | Value |
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Endpoint |
The URL the application uses to access business data on the back-end system or service.
This can be a back-end connection, or a service document. Typical
format:
http://<host>:<port>/gateway/odata/<namespace>/<Connection_or_ServiceName>.../ For a service, the service document URL is the document destination you assigned to the
service in gateway. Include a trailing forward slash to avoid triggering
a redirection of the URL, and losing important HTTP header details. This
is especially important when configuring the application with security,
such as SSOToken and Certificates, and when Rewrite URL in
SMP or Rewrite URL in Backend
System is selected for Rewrite Mode.
Note If you select
to rewrite the URL, it must not include a reserved pattern. See
Endpoint Reserved Patterns.
See URL Rewrite Modes. |
Internal | Whitelist a service that you create in the mobile platform. If you define an endpoint as internal, the host name and port of the back-end URL are ignored, and incoming requests are forwarded to internal services in-process, without another HTTP call to localhost. An example of an internal service is Integration Gateway. |
Use System Proxy | (Optional) Whether to use proxy settings as configured in the system properties to access the back-end system. This setting is typically disabled, because most back-end systems can be accessed within an intranet without a proxy. Enable this setting only when proxy settings are needed to access a remote back-end system outside of the network. When enabled, this particular connection is routed via the settings in the system properties. |
Allow Anonymous Access |
(Optional) Whether to enable anonymous access, which means the user can access the application without entering a user name and password. However, the back-end system still requires login credentials for data access, whether it is a read-only user, or a back-end user who is assigned specific roles.
Note If
you use Allow Anonymous Access for a native OData application, do not also assign
the No
Authentication Challenge security profile to the application; anonymous OData requests
are not sent, and Status code: 401 is reported.
|
Maximum Connections | The number of back-end connections that are available for connection pooling for this
application. The larger the pool, the larger the number of possible parallel
connections to this specific connection. For primary endpoints, the default
and minimum is 500 connections. Factors to consider when resetting this property:
To disable connection pooling, set this value to 0. Disable connection pooling only if the back-end system does not support pooled connections as disabling connection pooling may have a negative impact on processing times. Note For secondary
endpoints, there is no required minimum.
|
Certificate Alias | Optional if the Endpoint URL begins with HTTPS. If the back-end system has a mutual SSL authentication requirement, enter the certificate alias name of the private key and technical user certificate that is used to access the back-end system. The alias is located in smp_keystore; otherwise, leave the entry blank. |
Rewrite Mode | Select one of:
See URL Rewrite Modes. |
Relative Path |
If an application requires data from a back end that uses relative URLs, you must configure those relative URL patterns in Management Cockpit. Server rewrites the relative URLs to include the Connection ID (connection name), enabling access to the back-end data. For example, a Web service application requests an HTML page named abc.html, which contains the relative URLs /sap/bc and /sap/public/bc in its src or href tags. When a request is made, server rewrites the relative URLs contained in the response, so that subsequent requests (to these relative URLs in the response) can be processed correctly. For example, if "webApp" is the connection name and the response contains the relative URLs /sap/bc,/sap/public/bc; mobile platform rewrites these relative URLS to /webApp/sap/bc,/webApp/sap/public/bc. Without the relative URLs, the request cannot be processed. To add relative paths, you can either enter one relative URL per table row (for example,
/sap/bc in one row, and
/sap/public/bc in another); or you can enter a
comma-delimited list of relative URLs in one table row (for example,
/sap/bc,/sap/public/bc), and the URLs are
redistributed to separate rows after you Save.
Note To use the Relative
Path option, you must select Rewrite URL in SMP
option in Rewrite Mode.
|
SSO Mechanisms | You can add one or more SSO
mechanisms, and prioritize them. The runtime calls the first SSO mechanism
for which corresponding user credentials are available. Only one SSO
mechanism is used per connection attempt. If the connection fails, the
server invalidates the client session and requires reauthentication. Note
Click Add, select an SSO mechanism, and enter property values if required. To set the order in which multiple SSO mechanisms are used, click the up or down arrow adjacent to the name. See Single Sign-On Mechanisms. |
Back-End Connections |
To add a secondary back-end connection for the application, click
New, and enter:
For each back-end connection, select or unselect Enabled for Application. |
You can maintain the list of server-level back-end connections (including all the connections in SAP Mobile Platform Server), and of application-specific back-end connections. Application-specific back-end connections are the secondary connections that are enabled for an application; by default, no secondary connections are enabled. You must explicitly enable additional back-end connections for an application. Users who are registered to an application can access only these back-end connections. Users cannot access back-end connections (request-response) that are not enabled for an application.
Select Server-Level Connections to show all available connections for the server. Use the checkbox to enable additional connections for the application.