Hi, my name is Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
You are watching a video tutorial that is part of a series about the SAP Business Technology
Platform, SAP Integration Suite certification.
covering Provisioning Open Connectors This video was recorded in March 2022.
For the latest tutorials on the topic, please check the playlist.
In the previous video, we covered how to create a subscription for
the Integration Suite launchpad and deployment apps with the corresponding role collections.
In this video, we are going to add the Open Connectors capability.
Navigate to the Integration Suite launchpad
You can access the app from the BTP Cockpit or bookmark the app for easy access.
Selecting add capabilities starts the provisioning app.
Select Extend non-SAP connectivity
Open Connectors is mentioned in the description.
Click Next
and Activate
Activation takes about 30 seconds
and then the Status will be active
and we have a URL to connect to the Open Connectors app
A close look to the URL indicates a single sign on (sso) call is made
enabling us to connect
There is a cookie message with a link to a privacy policy
but when we select this, it is not pointing to SAP, as you might expect, but the Cloud
Elements website.
Now, you won’t get any questions about this, just your information,
but Open Connectors is “powered” as the term goes, by a partner and this explains
some of the differences we will see between Open Connectors and the other capabilities
of the suite.
You can look this up on Wikipedia
and there are also some articles on the SAP Community.
Again, for your information, no questions.
Back to the integration suite launchpad.
Notice that a tile has been added with the description of the capability: extend non-SAP
connectivity
and we can access Open Connectors from here, or as mentioned, use bookmarks
Quick look at the BTP cockpit, role collections
a new role collection has been added for the role open connectors user (using the same
name) and note that this is not an admin role).
It is not assigned to any user nor does this seem required as we can access the app using
the URL.
Quick tour of the app,
Color scheme is the same of the BTP cockpit and the integration suite apps but with some
slight differences in the user interface
The Connectors menu lists the available pre-configured connectors, if needed you can build your own
To start working with connectors, we first need to create an instance, we will cover
this in a subsequent video, but this is where the instances will be listed
Common resources and formulas are out of the scope of the exam, you can ignore this
Activity, Security
and the gear icon, the settings
with the organization and user secrets needed when using Open Connectors in API Management,
for example, we will see this in action as well.
To learn more about Open Connectors, visit the SAP Help Portal, SAP Integration Suite
Here you can find a link to the Open Connectors documentation
Getting started,
take a tour
but again, apart from creating an open connector instance, this will be beyond the scope of
the Integration Suite certification, That’s it, provisioning open connectors.
This video tutorial was recorded by Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
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