s4h24 – Unit 1 Exercises

s4h24 openSAP: Unit 01: Introduction to the course and our SAP Cloud Appliance Library solutions

Exercise 1: Access the SAP CAL and find the required solutions

Exercise 2: Create your own SAP CAL instance

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents BEFORE YOU START ...................................................................................................... 3

Prerequisites for this exercise ........................................................................................ 3

Exercise 1: Access the SAP CAL and find the required solutions ........................................ 4

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 4

Objective ................................................................................................................... 4

Exercise Description ................................................................................................... 5

Exercise 2: Create your own SAP CAL instance ................................................................. 6

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 6

Objective ................................................................................................................... 6

Exercise Description ................................................................................................... 6

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BEFORE YOU START

Prerequisites for this exercise

You must have a cloud provider account with either Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.

You must have an SAP Community registration and user id, which you can create for free while performing the first exercise.

We have prepared two SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) solutions for you, which are at different preparation and configuration stages during a system conversion

from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA. Using our two SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) solutions is free of charge with a

trial license for 30 days each. Plan to complete all units and exercises within the allocated duration of the trial systems.

Please note that your cloud provider will charge you when creating and activating the SAP CAL solutions for using their infrastructure. Always make sure that you suspend or terminate the instances when you no longer need them as per instructions in our

openSAP course exercises. This is very important to avoid unnecessary cost.

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Exercise 1: Access the SAP CAL and find the

required solutions

Overview

Estimated time: 5 mins

Objective You want to get an overview about the two SAP CAL solutions and find out where you can find them in SAP CAL.

The course requires two SAP CAL solution instances to perform all exercises. In exercise two of this unit you will create them and learn

how to connect, log on etc. Each unit exercise document describes which CAL solution instance is to be used. Since the course is targeted at experts focusing on customer, vendor, and business

partner master data, all technical configuration such as having run the SAP Software Update Manager (SUM) to get the system in a status after system conversion has been pre-configured for you in

the SAP CAL solution. The two needed SAP CAL solutions are called:

• “1: SAP ERP source system” - https://cal.sap.com/subscription?sguid=1a3556c0-0ee1-4a4c-8a5a-db08173df293 Use this one for units 2-7.

• “3: SAP S/4HANA target system after technical conversion before additional config” - https://cal.sap.com/subscription?sguid=4336a3fb-2fc9-4a93-9500-c65101ffc9d7 Use this one for unit 8.

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Exercise Description Perform the following tasks:

A) Log on to SAP CAL B) Find both SAP CAL solutions

What to Do What You Will See

1. Open https://cal.sap.com and click on “Log on” Enter your SAP Community user id and password. In case you don’t have such a user id, click on “Register” and create one.

2. Click on the Search field. Enter one of the following solution names each: “SAP ERP source system” “SAP S/4HANA target system after technical conversion before additional config”

Please note that we can’t provide a screenshot showing your required solutions as they will only be made available shortly before course start. Simply look them up with the names as described on the left or best follow the URL links on page 4.

3. You will subsequently see the corresponding SAP CAL solution.

Results:

• You have found all required two SAP CAL solutions and are ready to create your own instances in the next exercise.

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Exercise 2: Create your own SAP CAL instance

Overview

Estimated time: 60 mins

Objective Now that you have found the required SAP CAL solutions, let’s create your own instance. This procedure will have to be done for each of these SAP CAL solutions:

• “1: SAP ERP source system” - https://cal.sap.com/subscription?sguid=1a3556c0-0ee1-4a4c-8a5a-db08173df293

• “3: SAP S/4HANA target system after technical conversion before additional config” - https://cal.sap.com/subscription?sguid=4336a3fb-2fc9-4a93-9500-c65101ffc9d7

For both SAP CAL solutions the steps are the same, so we haven’t listed them twice. You just need to replace names related to SAP CAL solution “1: SAP ERP source system” accordingly when running through the subsequent exercise steps for SAP CAL solution 3. Additional Information Creating an instance can take up to 1 hour. Please be patient. When creating an instance your 30 days free trial period will start running. In this exercise you will start with creating an instance out of the first required SAP CAL solution. Do NOT create the other instances yet, only do so when you will be asked for it in the subsequent units’ exercises, so that you can fully leverage the 30 days trial period each. After creation of the instance do not activate it yet as more cost will be occurred then, do only activate it when being asked in the subsequent units’ exercises. Whenever being asked to suspend or terminate an exercise, do so to save cost. Terminating an instance will permanently delete it, so in case you still want to work with it, obviously do not terminate it yet.

Exercise Description

Perform the following tasks:

• Create your first SAP CAL instance

• Connect to your SAP CAL instance’s Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop

• Connect to your SAP CAL instance’s SAP Business Client (SAPGUI)

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What to Do What You Will See

1.

Go to “SAP ERP source

system” -

https://cal.sap.com/subscript

ion?sguid=1a3556c0-0ee1-

4a4c-8a5a-db08173df293

and click on Create

Instance.

2. Choose your cloud

provider account or

alternatively create a new

account first.

Provide the following name

for the instance:

“1: SAP ERP source

system”

Choose your master

password and enter it twice

into Password and Retype

Password.

You must remember this

password as you will require

it later on to log on to your

SAP CAL instance’s

Microsoft Windows Remote

Desktop and SAP Business

Client.

Click on Create.

3. You will be prompted

about either storing the

private key in your SAP CAL

solution instance or to

download it.

As this is a training system

without any productive data,

choose the simple option

Store. Once you see the

green text “The private key

has been stored.” Click on

Close.

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4. Initial startup of the SAP

CAL solution instance takes

approximately 60 minutes.

The instance status is

complete when the status is

shown as “Active”. If you are

not directly continuing to use

this instance, suspend it

directly to save cost.

5. In order to start your

instance after suspension

again, simply click on

Activate.

Please note that it will take

up to 15 minutes to bring up

your instance.

6. Click on the instance

name, which will take you

the instance details.

7. Click on Connect, which

will take you to another

dialog where you can

choose to log on to either

RDP (Windows Remote

Desktop) or SAP Business

Client (SAPGUI). Let’s first

connect to SAPGUI.

8. In the popup window

choose client 100 and click

on Connect.

This will trigger downloading

an SAP Business Client

shortcut. Click on the

shortcut.

SAPGUI for Java will open.

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9. In case you are prompted

for assigning a Trust Level

Classification for ABA,

accept the trust level by

clicking on „OK“.

In case you are getting an

SAP GUI Security prompt,

click on Allow.

10. In the subsequent

prompt enter 10steps2s4 as

user id or whatever other

user id you are being asked

to enter in the subsequent

units’ exercises.

The password is the master

password as you had

entered it during the SAP

CAL instance creation.

Afterwards you will be

logged on into SAPGUI and

can start working with the

system.

Should you encounter

issues with the procedure

from steps 7. to 10., please

follow the steps 11. to 15.

alternatively.

11. In order to connect to

the remote desktop click on

Connect.

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12. If you are an Apple

macOS user, you must

download and install the

Microsoft Remote Desktop

app first and then click on

Connect. You can download

it from:

https://apps.apple.com/mv/a

pp/microsoft-remote-

desktop/id1295203466?mt=

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If you are a Microsoft

Windows user, simply click

on Connect.

13. You will either directly

the following connection

prompts, depending on

whether you are using

Microsoft Windows or Apple

Mac. You might first have to

click the shortcut that would

have been downloaded.

Whether you will have to

click a shortcut or not,

depends on your local

system configuration.

In case this prompt appears,

click Connect respectively

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14. User is Administrator

and the password is your

master password, which you

decided upon SAP CAL

instance creation.

Windows:

macOS:

15. Confirm the following

security prompt with Yes.

Windows:

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macOS:

16. Subsequently your

remote Microsoft Windows

desktop will open. Click on

Welcome to get some

additional information.

Follow all instructions as

provided in the subsequent

units’ exercises.

17. To save costs you

should suspend your SAP

CAL solution instances

when not working with them.

To suspend your instance,

click on Suspend.

18. Do NOT perform the

following step unless you

are requested to do so in the

subsequent units’ exercises.

This will terminate your

instance and it will be

irrevocably gone.

In order to terminate your

instance, click on the three

dots and choose Terminate.

Confirming the following

dialog with OK will terminate

your instance irrevocably.

Please note that an instance

termination cannot be

revoked, and you would be

losing any configuration that

you have done in that

instance.

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19. Follow all instructions as

provided in the subsequent

units’ exercises. As

mentioned previously, make

sure to suspend the

instances when you are not

using them to save cost.

Results:

• You understand which SAP CAL solutions are available for this openSAP course.

• You know how to create your own SAP CAL solution instances.

• You understand that there is cost involved from your preferred cloud provider when creating SAP CAL solution instances.

• You know that you should suspend your SAP CAL solution instances when not working with them to save cost.

• You understand that you should terminate your SAP CAL instance when you no longer need it as instructed in the subsequent units’ exercises.

• You know how to connect to SAPGUI and Remote Desktop, which will be required for the subsequent units’ exercises.

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