Basis and others: Configuring Web Services in SOA Manager

Concept

You can use SOA Manager for the complete configuration of service providers and consumer proxies for a local system. The following task areas are described:

Technical Configuration

Initial setup of SOA Manager
Semantic Addressing Using Identifiable Business Contexts (IBCs)

Addressing is handled on the basis business application entities that are represented as Identifiable Business Contexts (IBCs).
Configuring Service Providers and Consumers

Configuration that is specific to each server or business scenario.
Publishing Services

Setting up the connection to the Services Registry, configuring publication rules, publishing service definitions.
Accessing and Testing a Service

Check that a service is functioning correctly and find the URL of the configured service.
Logs and Traces

Manage and configure logs and traces for Web service provider and consumer calls.
Monitoring

Check for errors in the message exchange between a service provider and a service consumer.

Prerequisites

You have Administrator authorization.

More information: Checking Roles
In transaction SICF, you have activated the following nodes:
- /sap/bc/srt (including sub nodes)
- /sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/appl_soap_management
You may have to activate the general Web Dynpro ICF services to ensure that the ABAP Web Dynpro runtime environment works. For more information, see Active Services in SICF.
The service and proxy definitions that you want to configure are available as development objects in the back-end system.

More information: Migrating Web Service Configurations
If you want to work with SOA Manager in a system landscape, you need to configure communication between ABAP systems.

More information: Setting Up the SOA Manager

Procedure

To start SOA Manager:

Use the transaction code SOAMANAGER.

Alternatively; you can start SOA Manager in an Internet browser using the following link:

http://<host>:<port>/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/appl_soap_management?sap-language=<logon language>

The main screen is displayed, with tabs for the function groups. The main function groups are:

Service Administration	Functionality to set up configuration to support business processes with Web services. This functionality is intended for business administrators who manage business processes across systems in a system landscape.
Technical Administration	This functionality is intended for technical system administrators who set up connections between systems and who manage the security settings in a system landscape.