how to design and execute guided procedures
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How to design and execute Guided
Procedures
• Overview
• Guided Procedure Authoring Demo
•Guided Procedure Execution Demo
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IT Operations powered by Guided Procedures
Guided Procedures support the IT operator during the execution
of his daily operational activities through:
Step-by-step execution
Detailed activity description
Central access to required managed system functions
Automatic steps
Logging of every activity
Central documentation of operational expertise
Result:
Central - Guided - Reproducible
execution of day-to-day operational activities
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The following operational activities could be maintained as Guided Procedures:
Periodic routine operations like system health check, archiving
Repetitive system changes like creation of user – creation of RFC destination
Complex IT Services like provisioning of a test system or client copy
Disaster recovery procedures
Exception handling and alert resolution
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Guided Procedures – possible use cases
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Guided Procedure Framework Overview
Guided Procedure Browser
Guided Procedure
Authoring Environment
Guided Procedure
Runtime
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Guided Procedure Browser
List of
available
Guided
Procedures
Create new
Guided
Procedure
Change
Guided
Procedure
Execute
Guided
Procedure
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Guided Procedure Authoring - Demo
IT Operations Manager decides that a manual system health check for all ABAP
systems has to be executed daily .
A Guided Procedure is created to ensure that this task can be executed in a
standardized and guided way.
The following demo shows how to create a simple Guided Procedure for a system
health check
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Prerequisites for Authoring
Required roles: SAP_TECHNICAL_ADMIN_COMP
ABAP package for documents is available
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Start the Guided Procedures Applications
The Guided
Procedure
authoring &
runtime are
part of the
Technical
Administratio
n Work
Center
Start Guided
Procedures
Application
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Start the Authoring Environment
Select Attributes for the
Guided Procedure (In this
case we would like to
create a guided procedure
which is relevant for all
ABAP systems)
SELECT Apply
Select Create.
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Enter Name and
Description
Enter number of steps (can
be changed later)
Create change request or
select existing
Select
Create
Enter description and Change Request
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Maintain step title and description
Enter Name and
Description of the
step
Select step type - in our example we
select a manual step .
Please refer to SAP Note 1697805 for
a descriptionof the other possibilities
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Maintain help text
Add a help text for
the step . You can
also add pictures,
mime objects, links
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The help text needs to be assigned to a package
Choose correct package
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Add activity
Add a new activity
It is possible to add
several activities to
one step
Enter activity
name
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Add activity – Add Navigation Link
Press new
Add a navigation link.
In this example we add a
navigation link to transaction
SM66 in the managed system
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Add activity – help text
Add an activity help text
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Define the next steps
Check system log
Define next steps in a similar way
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Activate guided procedure
Activate guided procedure after
design is finished and you would
like it to be transported to QA for
testing
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Result : A new guided procedure exists
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Additional information on the authoring environment
See SAP Note 1697805 for detailed Information about Guided Procedure Authoring
See https://wiki.wdf.sap.corp/wiki/display/wikismssi/Guided+Procedure+Authoring
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Guided Procedure Execution - Demo
IT Operator executes the “Daily System Health Check” as part of his daily routine
tasks.
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Start the Guided Procedures Applications
The Guided
Procedure
application is
part of the
Technical
Administration
Work Center
Start Guided
Procedures
Application
Select the
managed system
for which you
would like to
execute the daily
system health
check
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Start Guided Procedure
Select the
guided
procedure to be
executed
Select execute
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Start Guided Procedure
Alternatively
the guided
procedure
could be
started directly
via a URL
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Execute the guided procedure
Read the help
text
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Execute the guided procedure
Start the
relevant
application in
the managed
system
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Execute the guided procedure
Execute
activities in the
managed
system
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Execute the guided procedure
Optional: Add a
comment
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Execute the guided procedure
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Execute the guided procedure
Set the
execution
status of the
activity
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Execute the guided procedure
Traffic Light is
updated
automatically
according to the
execution
status of the
messages
Log is updated
automatically
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Execute the guided procedure
Continue with
next steps
Thank You!