E2E System Refresh Automation

Owned by Claudia Yanez
Last updated: Oct 17, 2022 by Linh Nguyen
3 min read

E2E System Refresh Automation with IT-Conductor simplifies the process of performing SAP system refresh including the database refresh and PCA (Post-copy Automation). Most SAP customers need to refresh their Quality or Test system on a regular basis to enhance the quality assurance process for the project team. However, this is a complex and long process which typically has to be adapted to each customer’s technology environment and project needs, thus many customers struggle to achieve successful and regular system refresh. IT-Conductor’s end-to-end (E2E) System Refresh Automation reduces time and efforts by up to 80% while minimizing manual processes, errors and dependency on technical personnel.

Product Description

E2E System Refresh Automation is an automation-as-a-service solution created to automate the entire system refresh process from preparation and checks to the actual database refresh, followed by the post-copy automation to restore the quality system’s technical configuration.

Benefits:

  • Time-reduced in performing SAP system refreshes

  • Minimize dependency on scarce SAP technical resources as the process is digitized into intelligent workflows

  • Get notified when a scheduled system refresh starts, ends, or when an error occurs.

  • Flexibility to run system refresh, regardless of your system environment components.

  • Auditable traces of when and how the system refresh were automated

  • Affordable automation-as-a-service solution which is easily supported remotely 24x7

Approach:

The stages for SID-Refresh are the following:

  • Provisioning - infrastructure and system provisioning via ITC automation (if non-existent)

  • Assessment - discovery and distillation of resources

  • Architecture - design and development stage

  • Deployment - implementation of design

 

Workflow:

 

Figure 1: Workflow for SID-Refresh

 

Architecture for SID-Refresh Automation:

Figure 2: SAP Landscape for SID-Refresh

IT-Conductor SID-Refresh Automation Workflow:

Below is an overview of the implementation, which will be configured and tested by the IT-Conductor team in collaboration with the customer’s technical SME (Subject Matter Experts).

The first step is to initialize the process definition with the pre-defined set-up for the source and target system in IT-Conductor.

 

For some steps, there are one or more process that need to be execute as shown in the picture below.

For ‘Source preparation Step’, the process will first take a Backup from the Source Tenant Database. Once completed the process starts ‘Target Preparation Step’, stopping the SAP Application from target system and export the configuration of our target system, for this example we are using the QAS System.

 

Once the export is completed, the next step ‘DB Restore’ starts by copying the backup root key from the filesystem from source to target system, then the process STOP Database Tenant from target and restore the database.

The process will automatically start the next step once the previous steps are completed and in green. For the ‘Post Copy Step', the process will first Import back the QA Configuration and Start the SAP APP from target system.

 

 

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