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SUM MailNotifier - Get email notifications when SUM tool is waiting for user input

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Starting with SUM 1.0 SP 18, SAP has delivered a client program MailNotifierApp.jar that connects with the host agent and triggers emails when SUM is waiting for a user input. MailNotifier has to run on a host that can connect to both SUM using HTTP(S) and SMTP mail server. This host can be your PC, Primary Application Server where SUM is running or any host that fulfills these conditions. In order to use MailNotifier Extract SUM tool and go to SUM\ABAP\mailNotifier. Copy MailNotifierApp.jar (application) and MailNotifierApp.props (properties file) to the host which can connect to SUM and SMTP server. Update MailNotifierApp.props file with appropriate parameter values. Start MailNotifier using the following command java –jar MailNotifierApp.jar properties=<path-to-MyMailNotifierApp.props-file> (or) java –jar MailNotifierApp.jar sum.sid=SID sum.user=sidadm You will be prompted to provide passwords The tool will try to connect with SUM and send a test email.

Choosing own schema name with SUM DMO procedure

When performing the DMO procedure with SUM, if you want to change the target schema name, set the following parameter in <path to SUM>/abap/bin/SAPup_add.par /migrate/AskTargetDBUSER=1 SUM will offer you a separate dialog to enter the schema name. The name will not get the suffix SAP.

How to bypass SSL security warning from Chrome - badidea

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If you are hitting something by IP and get a cert warning in Chrome, you can type "badidea" to bypass it quickly.

What is an SAP Instance?

An instance is a unit that can (and has to) be started and stopped as a whole. It is made up of several OS Processes, memory areas used by individual process and shared by all the processes, and files. Primary and Additional Application Servers The business logic is executed in an SAP instance. It can be an ABAP instance (logic is executed by work processes) or Java instance (logic is executed by application threads in a server node) An SAP system can be made up of several such instances. The first instance is called Primary Application Server (it used to be called Central Instance). Instances after PAS, that can execute business logic, are called Additional Application Servers (it used to be called as Dialog Instances) Central Services To keep track of which instance is up and is least loaded, SAP uses a Message Server. So if a logon is made via Message Server, it checks which instance is least used and logs the user on to that server. You can group the type of users, provi