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SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide

Uday Rao

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SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrators Guide
- Table of Contents
- SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
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- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. MDM Scenarios and Fundamentals
  - Master Data Management
    - Benefits of Master Data Management
  - MDM scenarios
    - IT scenarios
      - Master Data Consolidation
        
        Components required for implementing Master Data Consolidation
        
        How this scenario integrates with other scenarios?
      - Master Data Harmonization
        
        Components required for implementing Master Data Harmonization
        
        How this scenario integrates with other scenarios
      - Central Master Data Management
        
        Components required for implementing Central Master Data Management
        
        How this scenario integrates with other scenarios
    - Business scenarios
      - Rich Product-Content Management
        
        Process flow
        
        Importing product data
        
        Re-categorizing and enriching product data
        
        Providing catalog content
        
        Enabling print publishing
      - Global Data Synchronization
      - Customer-Data Integration
  - MDM Server know how
    - What is an MDM Server?
      - MDM auxiliary servers
    - What is an MDM repository?
      - What makes a database a master data repository?
      - MDM repository structure
      - Other key capabilities of an MDM repository
        
        Taxonomies
        
        Attributes
        
        Qualified tables and qualifiers
        
        Product family
        
        Product masks
        
        Data groups
        
        Validations and validation groups
  - Summary
- 2. Getting to Know the MDM Console
  - Launching the MDM Console
    - MDM Console Settings file
      - Loading the MDM Console Settings file
        
        Using the Console main menu
        
        Using the Console desktop shortcut
        
        Using the command line
  - MDM Console main window
    - Hierarchy pane
    - Objects pane
    - Object detail pane
    - Functions tab
    - Tables and Fields tab
    - Status bar
  - Configuration parameters
    - MDM Console settings
    - MDM server settings
    - MDM auxiliary server settings
    - Repository settings
    - DBMS settings
  - Keyboard shortcuts
  - Summary
- 3. Accessing the MDM System
  - Accessing the MDM servers
    - Mounting and unmounting an MDM server
    - Starting and stopping an MDM server
  - MDM repository properties
    - DBMS server
    - Repository port numbers
  - Accessing the MDM repository
    - Mounting and unmounting an MDM repository
    - Connecting to and disconnecting from an MDM repository
    - Loading and unloading an MDM repository
  - Summary
- 4. MDM Repository Maintenance
  - Working with MDM repositories
    - Creating an MDM repository
      - Creating a default repository
      - Creating a repository from an archive
      - Repository creation options
    - Deleting an MDM repository
  - Working with tables and fields
    - Table properties
    - Adding tables
    - Editing tables
      - Display Fields
      - Unique Fields
    - Deleting tables
    - Field properties
    - Adding fields
    - Editing fields
      - Reordering fields
    - Deleting fields
  - Working with tuples
    - Tuple properties
    - Adding or deleting tuples
    - Working with tuple member fields
      - Adding tuple member fields
      - Deleting tuple member fields
  - Summary
- 5. MDM Repository Administration
  - Appropriating an MDM repository
  - Updating an MDM repository
  - Verifying an MDM repository
  - Duplicating an MDM repository
  - Maintaining a master/slave repository
    - Benefits and limitations of master/slave concepts
    - Master/slave landscape strategies
    - Publication slave
    - Master/slave repository in the Console
      - Identifying master and slave repositories in the Console
      - Creating a master and slave repository
      - Synchronizing a slave repository
      - Normalizing a slave repository
    - Broken master/slave repository
  - Repository archive and unarchive
    - Archiving
    - Archive Options
    - Unarchiving
    - Publication model archive and unarchive
  - MDM schema transportation
    - Exporting schemas
    - Importing schemas
    - CTS+
    - Schema migration vs. CTS+
  - Summary
- 6. Server Administration
  - Accessing MDM servers
    - Monitoring MDM server activity
    - Optimizing MDM's performance
    - Import slices and import sleep time
  - Logs, traces, and reports
    - Logs
    - Traces
    - Reports
  - MDS configuration
    - Server-level configuration
    - Repository-level configuration
  - DBMS settings
    - DBMS initialization
    - MDM on multiple DBMS instances
    - DBMS servers list
  - Summary
- 7. Import Server Administration
  - Master Data Import Server
    - Difference between the MDIS and the Import Manager
  - MDIS's Ports
    - File types supported by the MDIS
    - MDIS's support for text files
    - MDIS's support for XML files
    - Working with other XML types
  - Virtual Extended Records
    - Structural Transformation phase
    - Value Transformation phase
    - Import phase
  - Using the MDIS
  - Exception handling
    - Structural Exceptions
    - Value and Import Exceptions
    - Block on Structural Exceptions
  - The MDIS configuration
    - Global MDIS parameters
    - Repository specific MDIS.ini parameters
    - Configuring the MDIS from the MDM Console
    - Configuring optimal performance
  - Troubleshooting
    - Import files are not being processed by the MDIS
    - Port has exceptions
    - Source fields or values not being imported
    - Source file is too large to open in the Import Manager
    - Enabling tracing and audit trails in the Import log
  - Summary
- 8. Syndication Server Administration
  - Master Data Syndication Server
    - Difference between MDSS and the Syndicator
    - MDSS Ports
      - Automated
      - Scheduled
      - Manual
  - Using MDSS
    - Monitoring MDSS activities
  - MDSS configuration
    - Global MDSS Parameters
    - Repository specific MDSS parameters
      - MDSS - Auxiliary Servers node in the MDM Console
  - Troubleshooting
    - Problem 1: No syndications are executed
      - Server and repository status
      - Outbound port settings
      - Map properties
      - MDSS configuration errors
    - Problem 2: Syndications are not executed as per scheduled time
    - Problem 3: Unchanged records are not suppressed
    - Problem 4: Changed records are not syndicated
  - Syndication tips
    - Tip 1: Syndicating large files
    - Tip 2: Avoid changes to master data during syndication
  - Summary
- 9. MDM System Administration
  - MDM security: at a glance
  - Managing MDM users, roles, and privileges
    - Managing MDM users
    - Managing MDM roles
      - Functions tab
      - Tables and Fields
  - Trusted connections
  - Additional system tables
    - Connections
    - Change tracking
    - Links
    - XML schemas
  - Summary
- 10. Security
  - Users, roles, and authentication
    - Password protecting the MDM servers
    - Password protecting the MDM repositories
    - Changing password on login
    - Password expiration
    - Avoiding weak passwords
    - Minimal password length
    - Deactivation due to inactivity
    - Resetting the admin password
  - Network and communication security
    - SSL support for securing the communication channel
  - MDM server configuration
  - Authorization concepts and management
  - Auditing
  - Content security
  - MDM file locations and file system security
  - Summary
- 11. MDM Integration Scenarios
  - MDM BI integration
    - Pre-requisites
      - Integrating BI and MDM
  - MDM XI/PI integration
    - Communication
    - Implementation
    - Configuration of the Adapter
    - Monitoring the MDM Adapter
  - MDM Portal integration
    - MDM Portal integration prerequisites
    - Before working with SAP Enterprise Portal
    - Integrating SAP NetWeaver MDM with Enterprise Portal
  - Summary
- A. Getting Started with MDM
  - MDM concept
  - MDM functional components
  - Key capabilities
  - Setup and installation of MDM 7.1
- Index

Title: SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide
Author: Uday Rao
Original title: SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide.
ISBN: 9781849682152, 9781849682152
Date of issue: 2011-09-21
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3cvw
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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