The topic explains the discovery caching process as well as how to modify the filter for discovery, and generate a discovery cache file.
Discovery
There are differences in the BAPIs amongst different versions of SAP. In addition, each SAP implementation may have a different set of BAPIs exposed through RFC. Also, each SAP implementation may include customized BAPIs. The ERP MA does not assume that a certain set of BAPIs are available. Instead, the ERP MA Configuration Tool utilizes a discovery process to obtain a list of available BAPIs. The first time you connect to a SAP environment through the ERP MA Configuration Tool, the discovery process is launched. Discovery retrieves the set of available BAPIs and caches them for future use.
Starting the discovery process
You can trigger a new discovery cache file to be generated one of three ways:
- (Default) The first time you connect to a
SAP/R3 server one will be generated.
- By selecting the settings for the ERP
Configuration Tool to build a new cache. In this case, the next
time the ERP MA Configuration tool connects to a SAP R3 server, the
cache will be rebuilt.
- By manually deleting the cache data file from
the ERP Configuration Tool install folder. The cache file is named
BapiCache_[SAP/R3 hostname].mdb. In this case, the next time the
ERP MA Configuration tool connects to a SAP R3 server, the cache
will be rebuilt.
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To begin, start the ERP Configuration Tool. This will bring you to the main window. Click the connect button to connect to your SAP server.
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Click the connect button to connect to your SAP server. When prompted, enter valid credential information.
- Connect To - a formatted connection
string to your SAP server (you may need to contact your SAP
administrator for this information). You can use the same
connection string as the SAP GUI.
- username - a valid username which can
remotely log onto to SAP
- password - a valid password for the
username
- Connect To - a formatted connection
string to your SAP server (you may need to contact your SAP
administrator for this information). You can use the same
connection string as the SAP GUI.
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To begin, start the ERP Configuration Tool. This will bring you to the main window. Select Server Settings and then select File from the main menu. Then click the Discovery tab. The Add Edit Server Properties dialog box will be displayed.
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(optional) You may change the filter used to search for BAPIs functions. The default filter will discover user and employee management BAPIs for an out-of-box SAP/R3 install.
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Check the Rebuild Discovery cache on next restart.
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The BAPI search criteria is a semi-colon delimited list of function names (patterns). |