In this tutorial you'll learn how-to setup a SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4 Trial Edition on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL).
You need to have an active Amazon Web Services (AWS) account for the Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) module!
Create Account
link in the top-right corner.Define General Properties
) provide a Name
for your account (e.g. "SAP HCP Backend"). Click on Next
.Cloud Provider
. At the time of writing, the only available option is Amazon Web Services
. Please also provide your AWS Access Key
and Secret Key
. Click on Next
.Select Account Users
) you can maintain (additional) users for this account. Your user should be registered by default. Click on Next
.Cost Forecast
. By default, the region us-east-1
is enabled by default. Click on Next
.Solutions
tab and scroll down to the bottom of the list. Activate the entry SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4 on SAP MaxDB - Trial Edition
by clicking on the corresponding Activate
button.Create instance
button of the selected solution and provision it to AWS EC2.Create Instance
wizard you are asked to define the general properties of the to-be created instance. Provide a Name
for your instance (e.g. "NW App Server 7.4 Public".) Your Account
information should be filled in already as well as the default Region
to be used. The most important setting is the Access From
value, which can either be Public
or Corporate Network
(VPN). Within the scope of this tutorial we'll stick t the default (public) access level. Proceed by clicking Next
.Virtual Machine Size
as is as well as the other settings. (We will go back to this page later on and make some required changes, but let's take it step-by-step). Click on Next
.Next
.Next
.Finish
. (When you do this for the first time it may take up to 35 min to setup the solution.)Create instance
wizard dialog the selected solution will be provisioned to your AWS EC2 account and from that moment on you are generating costs!Instances
tab. If you click on the link in the Instance Name
column you can open up a pop-up window to take a look at (and edit) the individual settings. One of the most important information being displayed is the IP address of your instance.192.168.0.1
as an example. You need to replace this with the real IP address of your AWS system! Similarly, we refer to the key certificate issued to connect to the system as NW AppServer 7.4.pem
. If you have chosen a different name, please substitute it respectively in the command line scripts below.ssh -i "NW AppServer 7.4.pem" root@192.168.0.1
rpm
package manager):scp -i "NW AppServer 7.4.pem" sapcc-2.2.0-linux-x64.zip root@192.168.0.1:/root
unzip sapcc-2.2.0-linux-x64.zip
rpm -i com.sap.scc-ui-0.7.0-1.noarch.rpm
8443
. However, this port is not yet exposed to the outside world, hence we need it as a 'custom port' to the virtual machine of our instance.Instance tab
. This will open up a pop-up window.VIRTUAL MACHINE
tab and click on the Edit
button in the lower rigth corner.Access Point
mapped to Service '
HTTP' and Port '
8443'. Click on Add
.Save
. The settings are instantly applied.http://192.168.0.1:8443
. The default username/password combination is Administrator/manage
.For further information about how-to configure the cloud connector for your respective scenario please consult the official documentation:
SAP HANA Cloud Platform - Initial Configuration of Cloud Connector
You may want to access your ABAP instance via SAP Gui. If not (or if you are already familiar with using the SAP Gui) then you can safely skip this last section.
The simplest way to get access to the SAP Gui is by copying it from the AWS instance:
scp -i "NW App Server 7.4 Public.pem" ↩
root@192.168.0.1://sapmnt/NPL/custom/SAP_GUI_FOR_JAVA_730.zip ↩
SAP_GUI_FOR_JAVA_730.zip
Simply extract the ZIP file and run the installation script as explained section 4.1.1 in the following guide: Getting Started with SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.4 SPS02 on SAP MaxDB - Trial
Once installed the last remaining set is to setup a corresponding connection configuration. On a MAC the respective configuration file is located in the following file: /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/SAP/connections
.
The configuration file may look as follows:
############################################################
#
# file : /Users/neo/Library/Preferences/SAP/connections
# created : 11.04.2014 16:15:52 CEST
# encoding: UTF-8
#
############################################################
NPL:conn=/H/192.168.0.1/S/3200 # Amazon
Although SAP offers trial editions for free your will still have to cover the costs for running these trial editions on AWS!
SFlight sample application showing how to extend an on-premise ABAP system using JCo/RFC
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