SAP WorkManager 6.0 on SMP2.3 SSO

[Former Member]

Hi there,

We are in a process of implementing SAP WorkManager6.0 on SMP2.3 and the users (Read Field Technicians ) need to provide SAP user and password to authenticate. Since we have deployed SNC&SPNEGO across the SAP environment and the passwords are initials ( end users do not know the passwords ) , i was wondering if there is a way to implement some kind of SSO between WM Mobile APP and SAP.

Appreciate any information, pointers.

Thanks,

Suhas

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[MattHarding]

Hi Suhas,

My understanding is this will be a feature that comes out of the next release of Work Manager/Agentry that runs on top of SMP 3.x. I thought this would have been at least released in ramp-up by now, but I haven't heard any more about this release since SMP 3.0 first came out.

Would be interested if you did ever find a way to do this, as there was no way of doing this with SMP 2.3 when I previously investigated this.

Cheers,

Matt

[bill_froelich]

Work Manger 6.1 which is built on the SMP 3.0 plaform is targeted for release in late June.  Of course this is dependant on SMP 3.0 moving out of Ramp Up and also a number of other factors so dates may change.

Keep in mind that users will still need to login to the Work Manager / Agentry client using a username / password (windows user/pwd) but my understanding is that then the actual connection to SAP can authenticate back via SSO.

--Bill

[MattHarding]

Thanks Bill!

[MattHarding]

Hi Bill,

Further to this, I've just been advised that SMP 2.3 already allows you to point your Agentry/SMP service at a Portal or similar (via the JAVABE.ini file) for authentication and if the Portal is set-up for kerberos authentication against AD, then it can use that to get a logon ticket to talk to ERP meaning that users can use their AD credentials and not need an ERP password.

Oddly enough, I was previously advised this was not possible on SMP 2.3 with Work Manager 5.3 but happy this is not the case (though I haven't proven this yet).

Does that ring true with you Bill?

Cheers,

Matt

[Former Member]

It isn't the Agentry part of SMP 2.3 that works ticket portal, but the SAP Work Manager 6 (built on SMP 2.3) application that the Java Code was modified to be able to.

And you are correct Work Manager 5.3 will work on SMP 2.3 and also SMP 3.  I have used it with both systems.

[MattHarding]

Thanks Steve - So just to clarify, is it the Agentry 6.x code running on SMP 2.3 that allows a Portal to be used for authentication, hence allowing both WM 5.3 and WM 6 to work with Portal authentication? 

[Former Member]

SMP 2.3 has Agentry 6.1 build into it.  (SMP 3 has Agentry 7).  It is not the Agentry code that is set up to uses the portal, but the SAP-Commons jar that is released with Work Manager 6.

As WM 5.3 was not built to use this set of code that was was put into the common file that might need to be some other changes to get it to work.   Work Manager 6 was build and tested with the the new commons jar verion

[MattHarding]

Thanks Steve. That makes it clear. Would be great if the commons content was backported to 5.3, but understand there's only 6 months left of support on 5.3 and 6.1 coming out imminently so guess it's not going to be.

Cheers,

Matt

[Former Member]

you might be able to use the new commons with the 5.3, but you would need to update your javabe.ini to the 6.0's version.  Also, I suggest you do testing all all your application to make sure.

Sorry, the SAP apps are not my strong point, the underline Agentry is.

Stephen