Installing the CTS Plug-In

   First thing you need is to install the CTS plug-in. You can update plug-in by installing the current Support Packages. As of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP 05, the CTS plug-in is contained in the SAP Solution Manager Support Package stack. You obtain the plug-in automatically by importing the Support Package stack.

Prerequisites:
  1. You must first implement SAP Note 1691028 in your SAP Solution Manager as a prerequisite.
  1. Before you install CTS_PLUG 200, keep in mind that it is not possible to uninstall ABAP add-ons.
  1. Make sure that you have installed the latest SPAM/SAINT update on your system. If a new version is available on SAP Service Marketplace, import the new SPAM/SAINT update.
    • In order to install CTS_PLUG 200 SP06, at least version 47 of the SPAM/SAINT update is required. In order to use all functions of the CTS Plug-In on SAP NetWeaver 7.31 and 7.40, version 49 is required.
  1. Ensure that at least the following versions of tp and R3trans are installed on your SAP Solution Manager/SAP NetWeaver system  AND on any managed ABAP system or communication system, if you are using CTS plug-in functions on managed systems:
    • tp version 380.05.18 or higher (720 kernel)
    • R3trans with a release date of 06.03.12 or later (720 kernel)
  1. Obtain the following notes before you begin the installation:
      • Add-ons: Conditions: 70228
      • Problems with transaction SAINT: 822380
  1. Check that your system meets the following prerequisites: If you have not yet installed these component Support Packages, you can include them in the installation of CTS_PLUG 200. For more information, see Note 83458.
  1. Required Components and Support Packages:
Component
 Release
 Support Package
SAP_BASIS
 740
 SAPKB74002
SAP_BASIS
 731
 SAPKB731001 to SAPKB73106
SAP_BASIS
 702
 SAPKB70206 to SAPKB70213
SAP_BASIS
 701
 SAPKB70107 to SAPKB70113
Note: You can install CTS_PLUG 200 on any SAP NetWeaver system with the above releases, but the functions only work on SAP Solution Manager systems and on SAP NetWeaver systems as of 7.31 SP01. SAP recommends that you install the CTS plug-in only on SAP Solution Manager systems and SAP NetWeaver systems as of 7.31 SP01.
Next steps will be:
  1. Install the CTS plug-in according to SAP Note 1665940. Be sure to have the latest version of this note.
  2. Activate the Services for Plug-In Management Web UI.
    • Activate Service /sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/cts_configuration_plugin_mgnt
    • You can easily find it from the SICF main screen entering SERVICE in field Hierarchy and CTS_CONFIGURATION_PLUGIN_MGNT in field Service Name, and executing the report.

Distributing the CTS Plug-in


There is a Web UI called Plug-In Management that you can use to distribute the plug-ins to the managed systems. For non-ABAP systems, the plug-ins are distributed to the ABAP communication system of the non-ABAP system.

To start the UI, you need the authorization object S_TRANSPRT with field ACTVT and value 03.

  1. Logon to Solution Manager (which is your CTS Server) and run transaction SZENPLUGIN. The CTS Plug-in Management Web UI will start in the browser.

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  1. Select the systems to which you want to distribute the plug-in and validate their status.
Validate the system before distributing the plug-in. The system will verify whether all prerequisites are met. Depending on the result, the system displays a red or a green traffic light icon in the Status column. If the status is red, you can display more information using the link in the Status column.

You can use the Filter button to help you filter the systems you want to see. You can also personalize the list view and add/hide fields

To perform a validation: Your user also needs to exist in the managed systems.

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Press See Details:

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If the system informs you that the import destination is missing, you need to configure the RFC Import destination between the CTS server and the managed system. Depending on the configuration of the CTS server, this connection may be re-used from an existing SAP Solution Manager destination. You only need to create this RFC if the systems asks you to do it during the validation.

  • In SM59, create the RFC according to the following naming convention: TMSIMP@.
  • For non-ABAP systems: Use the communication system of the import target as the Target Host for the destination.
  • For ABAP systems: Use the actual target system as the Target Host for the destination.
  • SAP Recommends to use Trusted system. In exceptional cases, you may also use a specific user and password. SAP also recommends to encrypt communication data using Secure Network Connection (SNC) for RFC communication with managed target systems.
Validate the system again after you configure the Import Destination.

  1. Distribute the plug-in.
Distributing the plug-ins means importing transport requests into the managed systems.
For non-ABAP systems this means importing the transport requests in the ABAP communication system of the non-ABAP system.

To distribute CTS plug-in on the managed systems, your user needs to be assigned the authorization object S_TRANSPRT with field ACTVT and value 03 as well as authorization object S_CTS_ADMI with field CTS_ADMFC and value IMPA.

    • Select the managed system and choose Distribute Plug-In.
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    • In the dialog box, confirm that you want to import the transport request.
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You can click More Information in order to read additional information about Distribution of CTS Service Plug-Ins.

The CTS Service plug-in and the CTS Bootstrapper plug-in are distributed to the managed system. If the managed system is a non-ABAP system the plug-ins are distributed to the ABAP communication system of the non-ABAP system.

Transports imported into the managed system:

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Example of the object list:

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Distributing CTS plug-ins using RFC destination and program


If you cannot update your SAP Solution Manager to at least SL Toolset 1.0 SP07 (CTS Plug-in 2.0 SP06) and don’t have the Plug-in Management Web UI, you can install or update the CTS plug-ins on the managed systems executing program CTS_DISTRIBUTE_PLUGINS on SAP Solution Manager which distributes the plug-ins to the managed systems. You may need to configure the Import destination in this case too.

  1. Run program CTS_DISTRIBUTE_PLUGINS and enter in the selection-screen the System ID and Domain to which you want to distribute plug-ins. Execute it. The execution will take some minutes.
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  1. If the program displays a message that the installation of plug-ins was successful the updated plug-in functions are available in the system and you can skip the next sections.
    Repeat these steps for every system which requires updating.
  2. If the program displays a message that an import destination has to be configured, create the RFC destination as described above in topic Validating. After you have created and tested this destination you can execute program CTS_DISTRIBUTE_PLUGINS again.
Update:

The delivery of the CTS Plug-In is discontinued. It’s no longer delivered via SL Toolset.
As of SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP 10, the enhancements to CTS, CTS+ and central CTS functions are delivered with SAP NetWeaver support packages, and fixes are delivered via SAP Notes. For releases prior to SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP 10, you can still install and use CTS Plug-In.
For SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and 7.2, CTS Plug-In is still a required component and will be installed automatically. Even though SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is based on SAP NetWeaver 7.40 and the CTS plug-in functions are already part of SAP NetWeaver, the CTS plug-in is still required to provide the CTS Service plug-ins that are distributed to the managed systems.

For information about using central CTS with SAP Solution Manager 7.2, check SAP note 2231041

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