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1 How to design and execute Guided Procedures Overview Guided Procedure Authoring Demo Guided Procedure Execution Demo

required managed system functions Automatic steps Logging of every activity Central documentation of operational

2 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 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2

3 Guided Procedures possible use cases 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 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 3

6 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 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 6

Technical Administratio n Work Center Start Guided

8 Start the Guided Procedures Applications The Guided Procedure authoring & runtime are part of the Technical Administratio n Work Center Start Guided Procedures Application 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 8

9 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 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 9

10 Enter description and Change Request Enter Name and Description Enter number of steps (can be changed later) Create change request or select existing Select Create 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 10

Maintain step title and description Enter

11 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 for a descriptionof the other possibilities 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 11

Add activity Enter activity name Add a new activity It is possible to

Add activity Add Navigation Link Press new Add

In this example we add a navigation link to

Define the next steps Define next steps in a similar

Activate guided procedure Activate guided

would like it to be transported to QA for

22 Start the Guided Procedures Applications The Guided Procedure application is part of the Technical Administration Work Center Select the managed system for which you would like to execute the daily system health check Start Guided Procedures Application 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 22

Execute the guided procedure Optional: Add a

Execute the guided procedure Continue with

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The certification test Application Associate - Financial Accounting (FI) with verifies fundamental knowledge and proven skills in SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting (FI) Course Code: TFIN52 The certification test "Application Associate - Financial Accounting (FI) with verifies fundamental knowledge and proven