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Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi

Advantage of the new Web based Browser UI for Software Provision Manager SP20

As you may have noticed when starting up the new Software Provisioning Manager SP20, a Web-Browser Window opens instead of the well known STD GUI.

The new Browser based User Interface (or SL Common UI as it is also called) is the default GUI for Software Provisioning Manager as of SP20.

The following questions may arise when facing the new Browser based you:

  • How do I get the parameter list view with the new UI?
  • What is the difference between the “old” SDT GUI and the new Web UI?
  • How does the new Help functionality on field level work?
  • How does the Logfile View and Task View in Web Browser Window work
  • How can I follow an installation with Web Browser from a different machine?
  • How can I start Software Provisioning Manager SP20 with the “old” SDT GUI?

I produced the following small video that demonstrates some nice functionality of the new Browser based UI and gives answers to the above questions:

Video on new Web based UI for Software Provisioning Manager SP20

Screenshot from old SDT GUI:

Screenshot from new Browser based UI:

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      Author's profile photo Rajendran Srinivasan
      Rajendran Srinivasan

       

      Hi Stefan

       

      I happened to use new SP20 and came across the new behavior. Quickly checking for this and came across this note 2480194. I watched the video on this blog. Very crisp and clear that you explained this new feature.

      Thanks

      Raj

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Raj,

       

      Thank you for your positive feedback.

       

      Best Regards

      Stefan Jakobi

      Product Management at CLM

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      How does it work when you're database host runs on Suse Linux and you want to control/start the installation from a Windows client?

       

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello H.,

      the sapinst has to be started on the host where you want to do the installation.

      In a window from sapinst you will see an URL. This URL can be "cut and past" to any browser on any server that is connected to the same network as the host for the installation, no matter if Linux or Windows.

      Then from that browser you can start and continue the installation.

       

      Best regards

      Stefan Jakobi

      Product Management at CLM

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thank you very much!

      Author's profile photo Moustafa Ismail
      Moustafa Ismail

      Hi Stefan,

      I started Software Provision Manager SP20 on a Linux system with sudo rights so it runs as root. I cannot use the root user to access the Web UI as the use of root credentials are restricted.

      I tried to use sidadm credentials but that did not works. is there away around this?

       

      Regards,

      M.Ismail

       

       

       

      Author's profile photo Moustafa Ismail
      Moustafa Ismail

      I was able to find the solution and wanted to share it with anyone else who is facing the same scenario.

      sapinst can be executed as root or with sudo  from the OS level with SAPINST_REMOTE_ACCESS_USER parameter.

      for example: sapinst SAPINST_REMOTE_ACCESS_USER=<Specified_OS_User>

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Moustafa,

      there is a parameter called SAPINST_REMOTE_ACCESS_USER

      So you can start like: >sapinst SAPINST_REMOTE_ACCESS_USER=myUser

      Then for UI credential the specified user (in this example “myUser” and the password for that user) have to be used to logon to WebUI.

       

      Best Regards

      Stefan Jakobi

      Product Management CLM

       

      Author's profile photo Jan Hofmann
      Jan Hofmann

      Hello Stefan,

      Thanks for your video. It is very helpful, but I still have one open question.

      As for SUM we used the HTTP port instead of the HTTPS. Is this also possible for SWPM? I could not find something in this direction in the SWPM guide or in SAP notes.

      Thank you very much and best regards

      Jan Hofmann

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Jan,

      Thank you for this question.

      For Software Provisioning Manager it is regarded as a security feature to allow access only via HTTPS. Therefor it is currently not planned to provide access via HTTP to Software Provisioning Manager.

      Best Regards

      Stefan Jakobi

      Product Management CLM

       

      Author's profile photo Daniel Masaladzic
      Daniel Masaladzic

      Hi there,

      any information on the start parameter SAPINST_SET_STEPSTATE=true with the HTML-GUI? Does it work?

      Regards

      Daniel

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Daniel,

      we think about to release this functionality in a future release.

      Best Regards
      
      Stefan Jakobi
      
      Product Management CLM
      Author's profile photo Ravichandra Samineni
      Ravichandra Samineni

      Hi Stefan,

      I am facing strange issue...while launching swpm on a new server with browser ie version 11....iam not able view arrow marks in the welcome screen..do I need to do any settings in IE and I downloaded latest version of swpm from smp

      Can you please assist on this

      Author's profile photo Stefan Jakobi
      Stefan Jakobi
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Samineni,

      I am not aware of an issue with IE Version 11. However, in the Prerequisite Section of the Installation Guide, we recommend using Google Chrome.

      https://help.sap.com/viewer/3741bfe0345f4892ae190ee7cfc53d4c/CURRENT_VERSION_SWPM20/en-US/1d4bd354b65ced05e10000000a4450e5.html

      If, for some reason you need to use IE, please report an Incident with SAP Support including the logfiles and we will take a closer look.

      Best Regards
      
      Stefan Jakobi
      
      Product Management SAP SE
      Author's profile photo Ravichandra Samineni
      Ravichandra Samineni

      Hi Stephen,

       

      Thanks for the reply...issue has been sorted out, we made settings in the server manager.

       

      Regards

      Chandra