Connecting 2 MII Systems

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can you help me with this question? I am apreparing a landscape based on SAP MII Distributed architecture that consist of many local MII systems at each plant and a Corporate MII system that connects to these local MII systems.

How do we connect between two MII systems, Is there any interface that is required?

Regards,

Manesh

[jcgood25 · Accepted solution]

Virtual Servers created at your Corporate MII server will allow you to effectively 'share' the local Data Servers at the distributed plants.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_xmii120/helpdata/en/45/23f10b6fb103c3e10000000a1553f6/content.htm

This way you do not need to attempt to connect from Corporate to all of the local data servers directly, and your performance across the WAN will be better using the raw/binary stream between MII servers instead of a heavier native protocol like JDBC.

Regards,

Jeremy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks. The answer is really helpful. If the user needs to see aggregate data and compare multisite data and have regional or divisonal views of data, wouldn't it be advisable to go for a corporate srevr kind of architecture.

Regards,

Manesh

[jcgood25 · Accepted solution]

Yes, a corporate server in this case is ideal for aggregating data from plant sites. The more alike the plant data sources are the easier it will be to aggregate the report, and individual site drill down reports too. Using a Business Logic Transaction to pull data from multiple sources should be relatively easy.

Aside from optimal bandwidth streaming between MII servers, one additional benefit is that you only need to establish the local data source connections once, and by creating the Virtual Data Server on the corporate server you are using a TCP/IP port like 50000 instead of the native port (1433 for MSSQL and 1521 for Oracle) which works nice for firewalls, etc.

Regards,

Jeremy