11.3. Create and Test an SAP Server Connection
Overview
The JBoss Fuse SAP Tools Suite provides an SAP Connections view, which enables you to create and manage SAP destination connections and SAP server connections. This section describes how to create and test an SAP server connection in the SAP Connections view.
Procedure
To create and test an SAP server connection, perform the following steps:
- If you have not already added the view to your perspective, select
to open the dialog. Select and click . The view opens on the left of your perspective (under ). - In the view, right-click on Server Data Store and select New Server, to open the Create Server dialog.
- Enter a name for the server connection in the New Server Name field and click OK.
- Select the newly created server connection in the Server Data Store tree, so that its properties show up in the Properties view.
- In the Properties view, click on the Mandatory tab to configure the basic properties required for an SAP server connection. In this tab, fill in the following property fields to configure the connection:
- Gateway Host
- Gateway Port
- Program ID
- Repository Destination
- Connection Count
In the Repository Destination field, you can fill in one of the destination names from the Destination Data Store tree (see Section 11.2, “Create and Test an SAP Destination Connection”). An SAP server endpoint uses this destination to retrieve meta-data from a remotely hosted meta-data repository.The other properties are standard SAP server connection properties. Please consult the SAP documentation for more information. - You are now ready to test the server connection. In the SAP Connection view, right-click on the server connection name and select Test.
- The Test Server Connection dialog opens. Click Server.
- The dialog uses the current server configuration settings to start up a server endpoint and connect to the gateway host. If the test is successful, you will see the following messages in the status area:
Server state: STARTED Server state: ALIVE
If the test fails, the server status is reported asDEAD. - Click Stop, to shut down the test server.
- Click Close, to close the Test Server Connection dialog.
