Wednesday, 6 March 2013

INSTALLATION OF GUI & GUI INITIALIZATION


Installation of GUI:
1. Double click SapGuiSetup.exe and install as normal software.
2. Give the instance entries by click on new entry button and specify application host name, Instance number and SID of the server.
3. If there are more number of entries was present, and then copies the file Saplogon.ini on already existing desktop.

GUI initialization: GUI is initialized by the following INI files.
1. saplogon.ini
2. sapmsg.ini
3. saproute.ini
4. sapdoccd.ini

1. saplogon.ini:- This file consists of the system details like name of the server, SID and instance umber. When we click on new tab in SAP GUI to enter description of the new server after saving it will be entered into this file. Without this file we cannot logon into the system and there will be no entries to logon from SAPGUI.

2. sapmsg.ini:- This file is used to identify least loaded server in the logon group, if logon load balance is configured. This file consists of message server details. (it contains sid &message server host)

3. saproute.ini:-This file is used to communicate with SAP systems over the sap router.
(it contains router host & router port 99)


 
4. sapdoccd.ini:- This file is initialized when the library is accessed.
(It contains the path of library)
Not used as the library is available on the inter net. These are located in windows driver (c:\windows)
In the recent micro soft desktops it is stored in
C:\users\DATA CENTER(user name)\Application data\roaming\SAP



PROCESS OF ACTIVATING WEB GUI


PROCESS OF ACTIVATING WEB GUI
@ It is inbuilt since WAS 640.
@ Internal ITS (Internet transaction server) provides the webgui for html without any additional installation. It is available by default since WAS 640.
@ The transaction to check whether it is available/active is SITS PMON Ensure that the parameter itsp/enable is set to 1.
@ SAP provided internet communication frame work with various services releated to web gui, crm, srm, xi, bw, solution manager. Etc these services need to be activated based on requirement and displayed component.
Execute transaction SICF ->select the services right click ->active.
default-host/sap/public/bc/its/mimes sap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui.

@ Execute SE80 to publish the services ->select the internet service->select system ->right click ->publish complete services ->select inter net service->select web gui -> right click ->publish complete service make sure that besides the internet service to be used also the two internet services system and web gui(also known as SAP GUI for HTML) have been published to site INTERNAL because object of these services may also be used by other services.

@ SMICM -> Internet communication manager is a new services provided in web requests. It is monitored by using SMICM

@ The webgui is accessed by using URL
https://<icman-host>;<icman-port>/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui
icman-host->name of the application server/instance
icman-port(http)->port number of the server(8000+instance number)
icman-host(https)->port number of the server(44300+instance number)
http://xyz02:8000/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui

@ define the ICMAN host using parameter ICM/host-name-full.
you can use this parameter to specify the fully qualified host name.
(FQHN) of the server on which the ICM is running and is available for requests. for example xyz02
xyz.co.in instated of xyz02.