how to design and execute guided procedures

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


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

…………………………………..

Guided Procedures – possible use cases


Guided Procedure Framework Overview

Guided Procedure Browser

Guided Procedure

Authoring Environment

Guided Procedure

Runtime


Guided Procedure Browser

List of

available

Guided

Procedures

Create new

Guided

Procedure

Change

Guided

Procedure

Execute

Guided

Procedure


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


Prerequisites for Authoring

Required roles: SAP_TECHNICAL_ADMIN_COMP

ABAP package for documents is available


Start the Guided Procedures Applications

The Guided

Procedure

authoring &

runtime are

part of the

Technical

Administratio

n Work

Center

Start Guided

Procedures

Application


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.


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


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


Maintain help text

Add a help text for

the step . You can

also add pictures,

mime objects, links


The help text needs to be assigned to a package

Choose correct package


Add activity

Add a new activity

It is possible to add

several activities to

one step

Enter activity

name


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


Add activity – help text

Add an activity help text


Define the next steps

Check system log

Define next steps in a similar way


Activate guided procedure

Activate guided procedure after

design is finished and you would

like it to be transported to QA for

testing


Result : A new guided procedure exists


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

https://wiki.wdf.sap.corp/wiki/display/wikismssi/Guided+Procedure+Authoring


Guided Procedure Execution - Demo

IT Operator executes the “Daily System Health Check” as part of his daily routine

tasks.


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


Start Guided Procedure

Select the

guided

procedure to be

executed

Select execute


Start Guided Procedure

Alternatively

the guided

procedure

could be

started directly

via a URL


Execute the guided procedure

Read the help

text



Start the

relevant

application in

the managed

system



Execute

activities in the

managed

system



Optional: Add a

comment



Set the

execution

status of the

activity



Traffic Light is

updated

automatically

according to the

execution

status of the

messages

Log is updated

automatically



Continue with

next steps

Thank You!

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