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How to activate Cloud Integration Automation Service on Cloud Foundry
Since end of May 2021 Cloud Integration Automation Service is now live on Cloud Foundry (CF) environment on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
This changes the way how to activate the Scenario workflow creation. In fact it simplifies the way to generate a workflow for your scenario integration.
The following steps need to be done by an BTP Administrator once in order to enable the Cloud Integration Automation Service to himself or other users.
Subscribe to Cloud Integration Automation Service in the cockpit of your CF BTP account
- Select Service Marketplace in the BTP Services area
- Select Cloud Integration Automation Service below Integration Suite
- Press Create
- Enter Basic Information and press Create
Cloud Integration Automation Service should now be visible as Subscribed:
Assign roles to users for your Cloud Integration Automation Service
Before you can start to use the service, you need to assign users to the predefined roles. The following roles are available under Security / Role Collection:
Integration Monitor (Role Collection: CIASIntegrationMonitor)
Privileges:
- Read-only access to Scenario Execution Monitoring application
- Work on assigned tasks
Integration Expert (Role Collection: CIASIntegrationExpert)
Privileges:
- Access to My Inbox application
- Work on assigned tasks
Integration Administrator (Role Collection: CIASIntegrationAdministrator)
Privileges:
- Access to My Inbox application
- Access to Plan for Integration
- Access to Scenario Execution Monitoring
- Review the workflow execution plan like confirm landscape, role assignment, and scope selection
- Monitor the workflow execution and terminate a scenario
- Plan a new integration scenario
- Select the role you want to assign yourself or other users
- Click on the small arrow on the right
- Select Users
- Enter the ID and the E-Mail address from the desired users
- Press Save
Go to the Cloud Integration Automation Service Application
Under Service Marketplace, Cloud Integration Automation Service in the 3 dots on the right side, you will find Go to Application.
Using the Cloud Integration Automation Service
In the overview of the Cloud Integration Service Cockpit you will find 3 options (depending on the roles assigned to the user):
My Inbox: Here you will see tasks from workflows that are assigned to your user
Scenario Monitoring: Here you can monitor the status of all workflows that were created in this account
Plan for Integration: Here you can start to plan a new scenario integration workflow
Now you can start with the integration of your first scenario using the Cloud Integration Automation Service workflows!
See this Blog on how to start a workflow and then how to perform the tasks.
More information can be found on the Help Portal for CIAS:
Best Regards Stefan Jakobi Product Management CLM
Hi Stefan
When will the CIAS be available for CF EU20 on Azure?
Thanks for a great presentation on the subject at #Teched2021 🙂
/Tobbe
Hello Torbjörn,
Thanks for the question.
Cloud Integration Automation Service is available on AWS in Australia (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (VA).
Currently it is not planned to release on CF EU20 on Azure but if we see a high demand we will reconsider to release on different Cloud Providers and in different locations.
Hi Stefan
Would be of benefit as some of the customers have eg "Azure First" as Deployment platform instead of eg AWS.
I am Supporting 2 of them in the Nordics, and everytime Service is not available in Azure I have to take the political discussion with the IT Management who rely on their statement "Azure First"
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the detailed blog on activating CIAS in BTP.
I am facing issue in creating the subscription to CIAS in BTP. When I create the instance of CIAS, creation fails with following error:
Service instance CIAS: Service broker error: Service broker ciasbroker responded with invalid JSON: 404 Not Found: Requested route ('cias-broker.cfapps.sap.hana.ondemand.com') does not exist.
Any idea on this ?
Thank you,
Roopa H.
Hello Roopa,
thanks for your question.
The problem could be in different places. I would therefor ask you to please open an SAP Support Ticket on this component: BC-INS-CIT-RT
The colleagues from our development organization will take a look and give guidance on how to proceed.
We are planning to migrate from ECC BASIS 750 to BTP's ABAP Environment. We are following your blog for Custom Code Analysis and intend to use CIAS to set up the Custom Code Migration App. Although we have a trial account in BTP with a Subaccount Region of US East (VA), we are unable to locate CIAS in the Service Marketplace. Can you please help!
Hi,
unfortunately Cloud Integration Automation Service is not available in the BTP Trial Account.
However, you could generate the workflow in a productive BTP account and use it in another environment.