Connecting Reporting and Analytics to Inventory Management

  1. Log in to the M organization in Reporting and Analytics.
  2. Navigate to System, and then click Organization.
  3. Select your organization, click Edit, select Enable Inventory, enter the Inventory Management web service URL and administrator login credentials, and then click Save.

    The web service URL is typically https://hostname:port/myinventoryWebService/HTNGListener.asmx

  4. Select the MICROS organization, click Edit, enter the Inventory Management database login credentials in the myInventory DB Password field, and then click Save.
  5. On the Reporting and Analytics application server:
    1. Open the Microsoft Windows hosts file in a text editor and add the following two entries:

      IP address of Inventory Management Web Application Server customer name

      IP address of Inventory Management Web Application Server myinventory.customer name

    2. Navigate to installation path\MyMicros\myPortal\, open microsconfig.properties in a text editor, and then set the following lines:

      inventoryURL=http://hostname:port/inventory_subdomain

      myInventory.version=version

    3. Restart the Reporting and Analytics web services.
  6. On the Inventory Management application server, navigate to https://localhost:8000/myInventory in a web browser, and then log in to the Admin organization.
  7. Click Organizations, and then click Web Services.
  8. Set up the default Reporting and Analytics web service:
    1. In the Host field, enter https://Reporting and Analytics hostname/htng/services/HTNGListenerSoap
    2. Enter administrator login credentials.
    3. Select Override Custom Definitions to override custom web service configurations for each organization.
  9. Set up the default Inventory Management web service:
    1. In the Host field, enter https://Inventory Management hostname:port/myinventoryWebService/HTNGListener.asmx
    2. Enter administrator login credentials.
    3. Select Override Custom Definitions to override custom web service configurations for each organization.
  10. If you are not overriding custom web service definitions, you can configure the web service settings for a specific organization:
    1. Log in to your organization in Inventory Management.
    2. Click Organizations, and then click Edit.
    3. Configure the Reporting and Analytics Web Service and the Inventory Management Web Service. Select Use default to use the default web service configuration.
  11. You can now configure the Inventory Management portlet in Reporting and Analytics.

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