CUA as data source for portal UME

[Former Member]

Hi all

We want to use the CUA system as the data source for our EP6's UME.

Obviously our end users do not login to the CUA system and therefore have no password to this system. It doesn't seem rational to provide them a password to this system, but then again which password will they use?

I'm guessing that this is the case for most of the SAP customers.

Does this mean that we can't use the CUA as the UME data source?

If any of you use the CUA as the UME, we'd be very glad to hear your solution to this situation (we can't use one of the child systems as the UME).

Thanks,

Yeti

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Yeti,

My remarks below will not answer your question but it will help you with some decision on your UME data source.

As far as I know, most Portal use LDAP as their main UME datasource. This is largely due to the fact that LDAP contains ALL the users that are "employee" of the company. As for CUA, it does not contain ALL your users which could pose a problem for you when you want to execute certain Portal functions (or management approval flows) which require users who does not exist in your CUA (but exist in LDAP).

3 presentations which I think its good to have a look and share with....

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d5f57332-0a01-0010-12ab-dd472e87...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c477de90-0201-0010-35ab-ddac4448...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/706065c4-3564-2a10-2382-a52fcbd7...

But there are also setup that uses CUA as their UME. I have linked some of the past threads who use CUA as their UME. I hope they can shine some light to your question. You can do a search here in the forum with "CUA UME portal" and you will also find posts that can help answer your question.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/706d054d-da24-2b10-f18a-fc82faf6...

Something to think about if you consider SSO with CUA as UME.

Something more interesting to read about:

The above are base on my experience and the Portal setup which I have done for the company. But maybe there are better suggestions from other Portal guys,Experts,Gurus out here who will contribute to answer your question.

Hope that helps.

Ray

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ray,

Thank you very much for you detailed answer.

It seems that we can't escape providing the users with passwd to the CUA system but they don't have to be granted with any authorizations. So, what we did is to add the CUA system as a logon system on the "systems" tab without assigning any role/profile to the CUA system.

Have a great weekend,

Yeti.