Adam needs further details about how to connect the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition tenant to the SAP Cloud ALM tenant. Carl explains the data flow between both services.
The SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management, in short SAP Cloud ALM (internal abbreviation: CALM) is designed to monitor your cloud-centric landscapes, including both, cloud solutions as well as selected on-premises solutions.
Hint
The SAP [product name] tenant is sometimes also called SAP [product name] service. For example, SAP Cloud ALM tenant may be called SAP Cloud ALM service.
The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition uses a push mechanism to transfer monitoring metrics on a regular basis to the SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
The collection of different monitoring data is done in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition tenant. In turn, this data is stored in the SAP Cloud ALM using SAP HANA database technology, then prepared and aggregated, and finally processed. As a result, the visualization in the SAP Cloud ALM takes place in the form of metrics and various other graphical output formats using different monitoring applications.
When doing the configuration, you must decide which monitoring metrics are to be sent to the SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
Note
Depending on the number of business tenants you are using in your landscape, and the decision which of those tenants you want to connect to the SAP Cloud ALM tenant, you might have more than one business tenant connected.
After you have requested an SAP Cloud ALM tenant, there are additional mandatory configuration steps that are required to set up SAP Cloud ALM for productive use.
In the Identity Authentication Service (IAS), users have to be on-boarded and specific roles have to be assigned to the respective users. As a follow-up task the Landscape Management has to be configured with a setup procedure.
In order to connect an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition tenant to an SAP Cloud ALM tenant, complete the following steps:
- 1. SAP Cloud ALM: Service Key
To create a communication channel in order to push the system real time data from the public edition of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition tenant to an SAP Cloud ALM tenant, a communication user is formed with a pair of Client ID and Client Secret.
The Client ID and the Client Secret is contained in a system generated Service Key.
* The Service Key usually gets created automatically. Please check if the Service Key is available. If not create it manually.
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More details are presented later in this lesson.
- 2. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Communication Systems
Communication systems are created in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition to enable the communication among different systems. For example, the connection to an SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
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More details are present in this lesson.
- 3. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Communication Arrangements
- Communication Arrangements help customers to configure the electronic data exchange between the system, like SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and a communication partner. For example, an SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
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More details are present in this lesson.
- 4. SAP Cloud ALM: Service Entry in Landscape Management
** Depending on your subscribed service, there are different ways of importing or creating service information in the Landscape Management application in SAP Cloud ALM.
Usually, Cloud Services are imported automatically on a daily basis. If the service entry you are going to use is not available, the following options can be used, depending on the specific service:
Create service entry using function automatic creation by service registration
Create service entry manually
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More details are present in this lesson.