How to Create a Group Component

Groups are created for the purpose of organizing hosts that work with the same SAP application.

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Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click Create.

3. Click Run.

4. In the Plan Parameters table, select the variable settings for the Group component.

   • If the variable settings have been created for this component, select the appropriate settings from the drop-down menu.

   • If the variable settings are not available from the drop-down menu:

     1. Click Select From List.

        The Select Variable Settings From List window displays.

        • To create a new variable settings set, click Create Set and type a Set Name.

          The following list provides commonly updated variables for the Group component. To create a value for the component variable, click the check box in the component variable's row.

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          Note –

          For information about component variables ending in UserExit, see User Exits.

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          groupName

          This is a required field.

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          Note –

          In the Sun Cluster environment, the groupName must equal the Sun Cluster resource group name.

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          groupDescription

          A description of the group.

          envType

          Identifies whether this component will be deployed to a Default, Sun Cluster, or SAP AC environment. Value can be either ac, sc, or default.

          createdBy

          Identifies the installer of the component.

     2. Click Save.

   • To use component variables from another component, click Import Set.

     For more information about importing variable sets, see How to Run a Plan in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide.

5. Select the target host or target host set.

6. Provide the plan variable.

   List of nodes on which this group can run

   This is a list of the nodes on which it has been pre-determined that the resources in the group will run. This list can be one or more nodes delimited by a comma. If left blank, the default is the target host value.

7. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.