XI Interfaces

[Former Member]

How to look at interface and determine the source and target system?

I mean, where do you look for such info in XI? Is it in Integration Directory or in Integration Builder? What objects do I need to look at and what information to note?

Thanks for help

[Former Member]

Closing this thread as answered. Thanks to all who helped in getting the answers.

[Former Member]

Hi Sangita,

As Bhavesh had said, go through any previous scenario already existing in your directory. See as to how the interface has been configured in the communication channels, reciever and interface determinations, and the sender and reciever agreements.

cheers,

Prashanth

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[Former Member]

Got the funda?

cheers,

Prashanth

[Former Member]

Hi Prashant:

I didn't want to create an interface, I want to see what an existing interface does.

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Sangita,

Open any configuration Scnerio in your Integration Directory.

1. Look at the Communication Channels under Business Systems.Check what type of comm channels are the sender and the receiver.

2. Look at the Sender Agreemenet. You will get the details like Sender Interface and Communication Channel.

3. Next, look at the Receiver Determiantion. You will see that for Sender of step 2 , a particular Receiver has been mentioned.

4. Next, the Interface Determiantion. This will let you know , what the Inboudn Interface is and the Mapping that is being used.

After getting a flow on your Interface, open the Inetgration Repository and look into each of these Interfaces , mapping etc to see how the data is being transformed.

Regards,

Bhavesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

The best way to do this is to check the message mapping.

This would tell you the messages that are involved in the scenario.

After this, try figuring out the objects in the configuration.

1.Start with Sender agreement. You would understand, who the sender is and which communication channel is being used.

2. Receiver determination: This tells you who the receiver should be and the receiver service being used.

3. Interface determination: This tells you which are the two interfaces involved in the scenario. We also get to know about the Interface mapping and message mappings that are used in this scenario.

4. Receiver agreement: Talks about who the receiver is and which communication channel it is using.

Regards,

Smitha.

[Former Member]

Thank you, Smitha & Bhavesh for the valuable info. I can start looking into the details.

[Former Member]

Your sending and recieving systems are configured in your Integration directory.This is your configuration tool. You will have to import the business system created in the SLD here. Then go on to create your Integration scenario.

cheers,

Prashanth

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[Former Member]

Hi Sangita,

The blog actually does not show you the creation of business systems. These are configurations that you need to do on your System Landscape Directory(SLD). The SLD is where you create your business systems/tech.systems for your scenarios.

cheers,

Prashanth

[Former Member]

Hi Sangita,

Try this one, for starters..

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

cheers,

Prashanth

[Former Member]

Thanks, Prashant.

The blog you referred shows the steps to create an interface but how do you determine the sending and receiving system of existing interface without creating a scenario? There may be hundreds of interfaces, we cannot possibly test or create scenario for every interface. How do you inventory the interfaces?

[Former Member]

The best way to do that would be to work out a sample scenario :-).Try working on a simple File-XI-File scenario to get you started.

SDN is the best source for you to learn XI. If you have any doubts, please keep posting in the forums, and you will always find people to help you out.

cheers,

Prashanth

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[Former Member]

Hi Sangita,

You do mappings between the source and target system in the XI repository( Integration Builder)

First, U have to create a datatype for your source and target, and then create a message type from the data type. Then create the respective message interfaces for them.

Then, u map your source and target structures, before going on to configure objects in your Integration Directory.

Are you new to XI? I have posted some links below that would surely be of help to you.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Further, this thread deals with everything that is needed for a starter on XI. Do check them out,

/message/527697#527697 [original link is broken]

And after you are done with the documentation probably you can go through this scenario,

Also check the following threads which might help you a little more,

Also for more info related to XI go through these links:

XI -Starter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e1/8e51341a06084de10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm

SAP XI - Where to Find Information

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/sap%20xi%20-%20...

All the information you need in XI :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

To understand the architecture of XI, Please go through this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

You can also go through the url for Elearning :

https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/elearning.sdn

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sdnpilot/elearning

Following is the link for 'how to guides', A step by step guide to create scenarios:

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/nw-howtoguides

XI is all about configuration of Adapters, to learn more please go through this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

One of the most powerful feature of XI, Business Process Management:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/frameset.htm

How the messages are delivered through XI:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/17/50d440e14f8431e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Once you go through these links and are a bit aware what all XI objects do, you can try a simple "File to File Scenario" which would help you to understand XI objects in a much better manner.

For help on this scenario go through this blog it is in two parts thus I am providing both links below:

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

XI Cerification

/thread/25311 [original link is broken]

For XI in General:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/e60138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

cheers,

Prashanth

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[Former Member]

Wow, What a super-fast response. I truly appreciate the quick response with so much information. I am new to XI and am a QA analyst. I am trying to look at an existing interface and determine the sending and receiving systems and find out what that interface does.