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Introduction
This blog acts as an easy reference point for documentation and other blogs related to the use of SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) Automation Studio. See the list at the bottom of this page.
What is Automation Studio? This is a functionality within SAP LaMa that allows customers to easily extend, customize, modify, or even replace existing workflows within the solution. You can also easily integrate other tools with LaMa using Automation Studio.
The table below lists some of the customization types that are supported with automation studio:
| Extension | Description |
| Custom hooks | Custom specific functionalities to extend predefined actions, for example, run cleanipc each time you stop a system. |
| Custom operations | Custom specific action buttons to define your own operations, for example, create restart HostAgent operation. |
| Custom notifications | Custom specific definitions, when you want to receive a notification, for example, receive message for failed activities. |
| Custom processes | Custom specific process chains, to combine operations, for example, change profile parameter and re-start the instance. |
| Custom provisioning processes | Custom specific process for system provisioning, for example, backup/restore via script. |
| Custom tabs | Custom specific tabs to access further tools and home pages within LaMa, for example, including SAP help into LaMa. |
| Custom links | Custom specific external applications can be called via custom links, for example, call NWA from LaMa. |
| Custom properties | Custom specific properties like username of custom instances, for example, username. |
| Custom instances | Custom specific non-SAP applications can be added, for example, add mail server to LaMa. |
| Custom dependencies | Custom specific dependencies between systems, for example, start system x before system y. |
Example of Automation Studio Visual Editor.
The Provider Definitions available in LaMa as of SP25 are:
| Provider Type | Description |
| Script Registered with Host Agent | A script that is registered on and executed by SAP Host Agent. |
| REST (added in SP25) | A REST API that is called by SAP Landscape Management |
| HTTP POST | A servlet or similar that is called directly by SAP Landscape Management. |
| Web Service | A web service (server-side) that implements the WSDL defined by SAP Landscape Management. |
| Remote Function Call | An ABAP function module that is called and executed by SAP Landscape Management. |
| Confirm Action | A text that appears for user confirmation. |
Use Cases
The use cases are numerous but here are a few that our customers have implemented (or are in the process) with Automation Studio.
- Stop/Start for OS patching
- Custom Provisioning
- SAP Profile Parameter Change
- nZDM Process
- Scheduled Automation (e.g. End-to-End Refresh)
- Automated OS Patching
- Mass OS level password changes (sapadm, <sid>adm etc.)
- SAP Host Agent Updates
- OS version upgrades
- Automated suspend of cloud instances (e.g. application servers)
- Integrate HA clustering software with SAP LaMa (cluster commands executed part of LaMa operations)
List of Documentation/Blogs
As more blogs and documentation becomes available, they will be added to the above list.
Note: We also have a GitHub site where sample scripts for Automation Studio are available.
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