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SAP Cloud ALM: Activate SAP Build Process Automation Monitoring

Beginner
10 min.
SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build Process Automation, Beginner, SAP Build, Tutorial
This tutorial describes how to activate SAP Build Process Automation Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM.
You will learn
  • How to connect your SAP Build Process Automation tenant to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
  • How to activate the monitoring of your SAP Build Process Automation with SAP Cloud ALM.
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Prerequisites

  • You need a user with the “Destination Administrator” authorizations in the SAP BTP sub-account in which SAP Build Process Automation is subscribed.
  • You need to obtain the SAP Cloud ALM Service Key to connect to the SAP Cloud ALM system.
  • An instance for SAP Cloud ALM API has been created. Find more information here.
  • You must have “Space Developer” access for the space in which the instance was created in your SAP Cloud ALM sub-account in the SAP Business Technology Platform.

Introduction

SAP Build Process Automation

SAP Build Process Automation enables everyone no matter the skill level to automate processes and tasks with drag-and-drop simplicity: https://community.sap.com/topics/process-automation.

SAP Build Process Automation is a citizen developer solution to adapt, improve, and innovate business processes with no-code workflow management and robotic process automation capabilities.

SAP Build Process Automation brings together in one platform a workflow management and a robotic process automation capabilities.

SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Cloud ALM helps you to implement and operate intelligent cloud and hybrid business solutions: https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm.html.

You benefit from an out-of-the-box, native cloud solution, designed as the central entry point to manage your SAP landscape with content-driven guided implementation and highly automated operations.

SAP Cloud ALM is included in your cloud subscription and in SAP Enterprise Support.

  • Step 1

    You need to obtain the SAP Cloud ALM Service Key to connect to the SAP Cloud ALM system.

    1. Log on to the SAP BTP cockpit.
    2. Click on your SAP Cloud ALM global account, then on your SAP Cloud ALM sub-account.
    3. In the navigation panel, choose Services > Instances and Subscriptions.
    4. Under Instances click on the relevant instance of the service SAP Cloud ALM API
    5. In the area that opens, choose Service Keys.
    6. You see your service key in JSON format. The key includes the application URL (**endpoints.Api**), token URL (**uaa.url**), client ID, and client secret.

    Check the support portal for more information

  • Step 2

    To enable SAP Build Process Automation to send monitoring data to SAP Cloud ALM, you need to create a BTP destination to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant in the SAP BTP sub-account in which SAP Build Process Automation is subscribed.

    The SAP BTP Destination should be named: sap_process_automation_cloud_alm.

    1. Log on to SAP BTP Cockpit and navigate to the sub-account for your SAP Build Process Automation.
      Go to Connectivity > Destinations.
    2. Click on New Destination.
    • Name: Enter a name for the destination as sap_process_automation_cloud_alm,
    • Type: HTTP,
    • URL: SAP Cloud ALM service key parameter endpoints.Api without api (make sure to keep the / at the end),
    • Authentication: Select OAuth2ClientCredentials,
    • Client ID: SAP Cloud ALM service key parameter clientid,
    • Client Secret: SAP Cloud ALM service key parameter clientsecret
    • Token Service URL: SAP Cloud ALM service key parameter uaa.url url + /oauth/token.
    1. Save the destination.
      BTP

    Check the support portal for more information on how to set SAP Build Process Automation monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM.

  • Step 3
    1. Connect to the SAP Build Process Automation lobby.
    2. Navigate to the Setting tab
    3. Goto Backend Configuration and select SAP Cloud ALM:
      SPA Config
    4. Register your SAP Build Process Automation service into your SAP Cloud ALM:
    • Enter a service name and a service description
      SPA
    • Click Register
    1. Activate the data collection for the following use-cases:
      • Jobs Monitoring
      • Health Monitoring
    2. Save the configuration.
  • Step 4

    After setting up the monitoring data push to SAP Cloud ALM in your SAP Build Process Automation service, the data collection for the use-cases will be activated automatically with the default monitoring configurations.

    You can adjust the monitoring setup within the monitoring application:
    - Jobs Monitoring,
    - Health Monitoring.

    Find more information on the configuration on the Setup & Configuration pages for each application.

  • Step 5

    The Jobs and Automation Monitoring application reports the jobs activities of your SAP Build Process Automation tenant. 

    ![Sap Cloud ALM](spa5.png)

    The details view gives you access to the status of single jobs triggered by your workflows instances.

    ![Sap Cloud ALM](spa3.png)

    Finally, each single jobs instances can also be controlled with the possibility to trigger alerts.

    ![Sap Cloud ALM](spa4.png)

    In the next tutorial, we will create a SAP Cloud ALM subscription for SAP Build Process Automation.

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