
The Developer Garage atTechEd Las Vegas and Barcelona is the place where we help you to get SAP development tools and environments running on your own laptop. In the list of topics you will find 3 sessions where you can benefit from a Developer Edition in SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL):
You can deploy the backend systems for these setups via SAP CAL Console into your Amazon Web Service or Azure account and run the developer tools installed on your laptop against them. For AWS accounts we offer $50 vouchers at the Developer Garage at TechEd.
This blog is intended to help everyone who is interested in getting one or all three scenarios running at TechEd. It is also good as a preparation as you might expect some latency in account approval if you don’t have an AWS or Azure account yet.
For supporting material see the Video and e-Learning section in this SCN space.
We will take three simple steps:
You will create a Cloud account, create a group, a user and assign the policies that are needed for CAL:
Note:The micro instance that is offered in the free account is not sufficient to run the SAP solutions we have in CAL. Using larger instances will raise costs (about 30 cents per hour / HANA native; $ 1,20 for ABAP/BW on HANA + storage )
With the AWS 50$ voucher offered at SAP TechEd Developer Garage you can add credits to your account which will make the initial use of your solution covered by the voucher credits.
Now you need to generate a key pair of access key + secret access key for your user. You will need it for registering your AWS account in SAP CAL.
Refer to CAL FAQ – Specific questions for Amazon Web Services for more details.
How to set up an account with Azure is described in CAL FAQ - Specific questions for Microsoft Azure
As an SCN user you are already registered with SAP ID service and can logon to SAP CAL (http://cal.sap.com) with SCN credentials. As a new user register yourself in SAP CAL login dialogue.
Note: the links here in the blog behind the solution names above will take you to a shortened set up with AWS accounts. Set up is faster with default values but any configuration (instance scheduling etc.) must be applied afterwards.
The develoment tools are provided on https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/
If you want to be prepared for each of the 3 scenarios – ABAP, BW and HANA native – we recommend to install eclipse/Luna.
Note: for SAP HANA native Development we now recommend that you work with the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench. You can access your HANA server by entering http://IP into your browser address bar, port 8000 will take you to the Development overview page (e.g. http://52.29.16.nn:8000).
To access the backend system in eclipse you need to configure the hosts file on your laptop and to refer to the backend system in SAP Logon before starting your project in eclipse.
Configure hosts file:
Windows: Open file hosts in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc as an administrator (choose administrator option in Notepad) and enter the IP address and host name
MAC: open terminal and enter: sudo vi /etc/hosts
sample entry: 52.23.207.198 abapci abapci.dummy.nodomain
Open SAP logon and create a new system entry using the following details:
IP address | See instance details in SAP CAL (backend) |
Application Server | abapci |
SID | A4H |
Instance number | 00 |
Password | Master Password |
User Names | Client 000: DDIC, SAP* Client 001: DDIC, SAP*, DEVELOPER; BWDEVELOPER |
Detailed information including all users etc is provided in the Getting Started Guide of the solution, which is attached in SAP CAL.
In eclipse choose the ABAP perspective by going to Window > Open perspective > Other.
Create a new ABAP Project and choose the System you have created in SAP Logon.
Your environment is now ready to use. For a procedure on how to go on with setting up your eclipse project refer to the Code Jam Guide.
Supporting material:
Guides and Tutorials for the Developer Edition of AS ABAP incl. BW on SAP HANA
SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse (BW-MT)
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