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Creating Trial account for Cloud Platform Integration on Cloud Foundry Environment, Creating User Credentials and Connection Test
SAP Cloud Platform Integration(CPI) is a cloud-based integration middleware tool hosted on SAP Cloud Platform for integrating Cloud applications and on-premise systems. There are standard integration content delivered by SAP in discover, you can design your own custom integrations as per client requirement in design and Monitor the Iflows, Deploy User Credentials,Test the connections in Operations View.
This Documents covers the creating Trial account for Cloud Platform Integration on Cloud Foundry Environment, Adding User Credentials and different Connection Test with trail CPI account.
Below are the Steps to create an New SAP account:
- Create an account in Register at SAP.
2. After successfully registered, an email will be sent from Sap (notification@sapnetworkmail.com) to registered mail id to activate the account.
Below are the Steps to create the Trail CPI account:
- Click on the Sap cockpit
Log On with your registered E-Mail and password
- After successfully log on, we can see the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit screen (as below screenshot) and Click on “Cloud Foundry Trail”.
- Before access the Cloud Foundry Trail, its mandatory to verify your phone number.
4. You will get the SMS alert notification to your registered phone number, give that SMS Code and click on Continue.
5. Once you verify with the phone number, then select the Region as Europe (Frankfurt) AWS
Below are Steps to create New Subaccount:
- Click on the New Subaccount and give the mandatory fields like below (Environment: Cloud Foundry, Provider: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Region: Europe (Frankfurt)) and then click on Create.
- After successfully creating the sub account, you can see the below screenshot then select “Enable Cloud Foundry”.
- Once Cloud Foundry enabled, you would see Origination and API Endpoint on Cloud Foundry as shown below.
Below are the steps to Subscribe the Process integration
- After enabling the Cloud Foundry on the subaccount, you need to subscribe to the Process Integration SaaS Application to provision a CPI tenant on the subaccount. The procedure to subscribe is shown below.
Go to Subscriptions and select the Process integration
- Once click on the Process integration, we will get the below screen and Click on the Subscribe.
- Once Subscribing completed, it shows as Subscribed in Green
Below are the steps to create New Role Collections:
- Click on Role collections under Security as shown below screen shot and click on the New Role Collections.
2. After selecting the New Role Collection and give the Name and Save.
3. And assign the Roles as below.
4. After all the roles are assigned, you can see the below screen.
Below are the steps to Configure the Trust Configuration:
- Select the trust Configuration and click on the SAP ID Service.
- Once you click on the SAP ID Services, it will ask the E-Mail Address, you need to give the registered E-mail and Click on Assign Role Collection.
- After Assigning the E-mail, you will get the screen as below and click on Add User
- After Assigning the Roles, you can see the assigned roles as below screenshot
5. Finally, to get the CPI URL
Go to Subscriptions, Select the Process Integration and Click on Go to Application.
- After clicking on “Go to Application” in Process Integration, you can see the below screenshot and provide the registered Email and Password.
7. After successfully Log on, you can see SAP Cloud Platform Integration screen and click on Provision.
8. Once click on Provision, you can see the below screenshot, it will take few seconds to complete the progress.
9. Once progress completed now finally Tenant has been created successfully, then you can use Tenant URL to log on the CPI.
Below are the steps, how to create User Credentials and Deploy.
- Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —>Security Material
2. Add —>User Credentials
3. In the Add User Credentials, there are 3 different types of Credentials:
- User Credentials
- OpenConnectors
- SuccessFactors
User Credentials: Here you can store the User and Password for SFTP, Mail, S4 Hana….., and this name used in the Communication channel.
Open Connectors: Here you can store the User, Organization, Element for Open Connector system and this name is used in the Communication Channel.
SuccessFactors: Here you can store the User, Password and Company Id of SuccessFactors system, this name used in the Communication channel.
Below is the example, how to add SFTP User Credentials:
- Go to monitoring —>Manage Security —> Security Material —> Add —> User credentials
>Name: SFTP_Credentials (Same name you need to use in the SFTP adapter)
>Type: User Credentials
>User and Password
Click on Deploy
- Once click on deploy, your credentials are deployed as below screenshot.
Below are the steps, how to do Connectivity Tests:
Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —> Connectivity Tests
SFTP Connection steps with Authentication as None
Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —> Connectivity Tests, Select SSH for SFTP server connection.
Provide your Host, Port (By default 22) and Authentication as None and Click on Send. You will see the Response message from SFTP server as Successfully reached host, and it will generate Host Key.
SFTP Connection steps with Authentication as User Credentials
Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —> Connectivity Tests, Select SSH for SFTP server connection.
Provide your Host, Port (By default it’s 22) and Authentication as User Credentials and Click on Send. You will see the Response message from SFTP server, and it will generate Host Key.
Below are the steps for Gmail Connection test with Authentication as None
Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —> Connectivity Tests, Select SMTP for Gmail server connection.
Provide Host: smtp.gmail.com, Port : 587 and Authentication as None and Click on Send. You will see the Response message from Mail server as Successfully reached, and it will generate Certificates.
Below are the steps for SuccessFactors Connection test
Go to Monitoring —> Manage Security —> Connectivity Tests, Select TLS for SuccessFactors connection.
Provide your Host, Port: 443 and Click on Send. You will see the Response message from SuccessFactors as Successfully reached host, and it will generate Certificates.
Conclusion:
CPI is a cloud-based integration tool hosted on SAP Cloud Platform for integrating Cloud applications and on-premise systems.
1. standard Pre packed integration content delivered by SAP in discover.
2. Design your own custom integrations as per client requirement in design
3. Monitor the Iflows, Deploy User Credentials and Test the connections in Operations View.
Now all above features are available in SAP Cloud Platform Integration on Cloud Foundry environment.
Reference links:
https://blogs.sap.com/2019/06/19/sap-cloud-platform-integration-is-now-available-on-cloud-foundry-cf-environment/
https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hcp-create-trial-account.html
https://blogs.sap.com/2013/10/22/sap-hana-cloud-integration-test-and-learn-more-about-sap-s-cloud-based-integration-solution/
Good overview about creating trail account for Cloud Platform Integration on Cloud Foundry Environment??
Thanks Hari Kishan.
Good Information Suresh, people who are missing trial tenants on Neo can be happy to use this on Foundry.
Thanks Vikas
Hello Suresh Kumar,
thank you for this very interesting blog. So for my understanding: this is full blown CPI environment that I can "play around" on. Is that correct?
It will be a while before my employer will make CPI available, so this would be a great opportunity for me to learn about it.
Best regards, Peter
Thanks Peter, Yes you can you do the POC’s.
Best regards,
Suresh.
Thank you Suresh, I will get going soon.
Hey Suresh,
Very informative blog. It has helped me to create my own CPI test tenant.
I am a little worried about the 29 day limit on the Cloud Foundry trial. If I start developing integrations in the CPI trial, what will happen to them after 29 days?
Thanks
Kriba
Hi Kriba,
I think this will help https://answers.sap.com/questions/436760/trial-expiration.html
Best regards, Peter
Nice Blog with detailed Information!!
Hi Gabriel,
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Suresh.
Dear Suresh,
Nice Blog, Keep Posting...!!!
Thanks Pradeep.
Regards,
Suresh.
Thanks Suresh.
The Cloud Foundry registration steps seem to have changed. Also, the process for adding Role/User is showing different options.
It would be great if you could validate the steps again. Thanks.
Hello Suresh
I have register on SAP and open CPI by using tenant link but Discover and Design part not appear
Please Help
Dear Suresh,
Please do needful on this issue, I'm unable to find discover and design part.
HI Anil,
Please assign all the roles mentioned by suresh in the screenshot.
Dear Suresh,
I have followed the above steps But i am facing an issue when i click on "Provision" - Trust Configuration .
Please do needful on this issue
Regards,
Krishna
Hi Rama,
Could you please a create a new sub account and try.
Regards,
Suresh.
Hello,
I am getting this error while trying to get the Tenant URL -
Hello Suresh,
A very helpful blog.
A follow up question, Currently I do not see this Process Integration in other region but only in Europe (Frankfurt). Will this be available in other regions also?
Best regards,
Ashok
Hi,
I know that this is an old blog. I tried activating PI on my trial account but got this error
Any idea how to resolve it?
Regards,
Jing
Hello,
If you have S id then kindly raise an incident you will get an response under valid SLA response time.
If you don't have S id and using an P id then drop mail on sso@sap.com with your account details (mail and id) and screen shot or error, login url and steps followed.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Suresh.
nice blog. It has helped me to create my own CPI test tenant.
Regards
Ram
Hello,
I followed the steps however I got an error rather SAP CPI url
1] Below are the steps to Configure the Trust Configuration:
Go to Subscriptions, Select the Process Integration and Click on Go to Application.
Also, Please find snip of the Roles and Trust Configuration.
And I don’t see SAP ID , sap.default is reflected by default.
Subaccount – I am using the default US (AWS) one. I had no option to select Europe during first time login.
Update 12th June - Along with posting it here, I mailed to sso@sap.com with all the details twice.
Not sure, what happened over-night but on doing an browser refresh in morning. I had the option of tenant provisioning. (Yes, I am guilty of putting laptop in sleep mode 🙂 to resume everything in morning )
Also, Came across this blog which talks about this error is related to authorization.
https://abusinesstech.com/learn-sap-cpi-using-free-trial-license-setup.html
there is no Process integration in the Subsriptions anymore, and when i choose integration suite, i cannot access the application
Hi,
Even I used Integration Suite, But It is showing 20 minutes time to install Provisioning capabilities. I waited for 90 Minutes, still there is no progress in the installation. Do you have any idea what could be the reason.
Regards,
Kiran