How to use SAP Smart Business Service (CF env.) with SAP Cloud Platform IoT Application Enablement – the setup
Introducing
In this 3rd Blog of our Story:
| 1 | How to combine SAP Leonardo IoT Foundation and SAP CEC – an PoC |
| 2 | Connect the Excavator to SAP Cloud Platform IoT Service (CF env.) and Build the Digital Twin |
| 3 | How to us SAP Smart Business Service (CF env.) with SAP Cloud Platform IoT Application Enablement – the setup (this blog) |
| 4 | Create an “IoT Freestyle” app including “Embedded Analytics” |
| 5 | SAP Cloud Platform Integration as keyplayer to interact with other applications (Cloud and non Cloud) |
It´s now time to make use of SAP Smart Business Service (CF) on top of SAP Cloud Platform IoT Application Enablement.
In Detail we want cover the following:
- Prerequisite and configuration
- Access the Smart Business Modeler Apps. and define the IoT Discovery
- Create your first Evaluation to validate the setup
Prerequisite and configuration
As always nothing works with a bit of configuration.
The first thing what we have to define are some destinations in the SAP Cloud Platform Neo Environment:
| Name | ssbruntime |
| Type | HTTP |
| Description | Smart Business Runtime UI Application |
| URL | https://sapsmartbusiness-<SCP Neo Acc. ID>.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com |
| Proxy Type | Internet |
| Authentification | AppToAppSSO |
| Name | ssbruntime_cf |
| Type | HTTP |
| Description | Smart Business UI control target |
| URL | https://sap-smartbusiness-service-ui-runtime.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/sap/smartbusiness/ui |
| Proxy Type | Internet |
| Authentification | NoAuthentication |
| WebIDEEnabled | true |
| WebIDEUsage | plugin_repository |
| Name | ssbservice |
| Type | HTTP |
| Description | Smart Business CF |
| URL | https://sap-smartbusiness-service-hcp-cf.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com |
| Proxy Type | Internet |
| Authentification | OAuth2SAMLBearerAssertion |
| Audience | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Client Key | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service URL | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service User | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service Password | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| TLSVersion | TLSv1.2 |
| WebIDEEnabled | True |
| WebIDEUsage | odata_gen |
And finally the system which alows us to connecting with the analytics OData service from SAP CP IoT (AE)
| Name | BusinessSystem01 |
| Type | HTTP |
| Description | Backend system to consume data in smartbusiness |
| URL | https://analytics-thing-sap.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com |
| Proxy Type | Internet |
| Authentification | OAuth2SAMLBearerAssertion |
| Audience | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Client Key | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service URL | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service User | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| Token Service Password | <part of SAP IoT AE onboarding mail> |
| TLSVersion | TLSv1.2 |
| WebIDEEnabled | True |
| WebIDEUsage | plugin_repository |
Access the Smart Business Modeler Apps.
To get access to the Smart Business Modere apps. u get noticed about the FLP URL.
In my case, the process works after an OSS Ticket and some days later i got the right URL provided.
Whyever in my case i got now an addition URL as my initila SAP CP IoT AE Launchpad!?
FLP #1: SCP IoT AE Apps. (CF env.):
FLP #2: Smart BusinesS Apps. (CF env.):
Configure the Business System
After we enter the corresponding tile we need to select:
| Source System: | BusinessSystem01 |
Afterwards u do not change anything, only click on the Service Discovery Type link and select “IoT Service Discovery”:
The final configuration should look like this:
….a first test
If we now validate our config, we can try to define a new Evaluation by accessing the “Create Evaluation” tile:
If we now 1st select our “Business System”:
And the then the Discovery Service:
We got now the expected result by selecting the “Thing Type(s)”:
Conclusion
Hopefully u can see how u config your system to make use of KPI´s and Evaluations in SAP CP IoT Enablement.
If u are interested in the analytics part, pls this blog about the usage from SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP CP IoT AE: https://blogs.sap.com/2018/03/29/how-to-connect-sap-analytics-cloud-to-sap-cloud-platform-iot-application-enablement-part-2/
In the next blog we will go in detail trough the previous step and finally we create an SAP UI5 IoT Freestyle application where we include our new SAP Smart Business Service “Evaluations and KPI’s.
cheers,
fabian
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Hi thanks for this informative blog.
I notice that the ssbservice and the BusinessSystem01 destination is configured differently from the SAP documentation I was reading. This uses the OAuth2SAMLBearerAssertion authentication. You also indicate that the details will be in the AE initiation email. Is there a way we can extract these keys in the SAP cloud platform cockpit.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Regards
Craig van der Walt
Hi Fabian, I’m trying to setup SSB CF as well, but for me the required steps are not clear. In the Online help there is part to deploy an approuter application, which you didn’t mention. Could you please help to figure that out.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Rainer