UME and A to Z about it ..... ??

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can any one help me out what is UME and If I have a scenario like 40 users of portal (ABAP source) has to access ECC through 5 users of ECC what would be the approach. Do I require LDAP server or any other. When we come across usage of LDAP ?

Thanks.

Venkat.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Venkat,

It might help you.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3641e490-0201-0010-c68f-e5122192...

regards

Naresh Garg.

[Former Member]

Hii

UME- User Management Engine

The User Management Engine runs on top of SAP J2EE as a base service

and offers interfaces for user related information retrieval and storage.

It connects to a central repository for user related data. This storage

is referred to as the User Persistence Store (UPS).

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e5/618a3eacd49076e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

The UPS can be a database, a directory server, such as LDAP,

a collection of SAP system users or a text file.

LDAP- Light Weight Access Protocol

Just as a Database Management System (DBMS) from Sybase, Oracle, Informix, or Microsoft is used to process queries and updates to a relational database, an LDAP server is used to process queries and updates to an LDAP information directory. In other words, an LDAP information directory is a type of database, but it's not a relational database. And unlike databases that are designed for processing hundreds or thousands of changes per minute - such as the Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems often used in e-commerce - LDAP directories are heavily optimized for read performance.

Check out the below link to know about LDAP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/7e/a2d475e5384335a2b1b2d80e1a3a20/frameset.htm

The blogs below explain the procedure to configure LDAP in portal

/people/deepa.prabhu/blog/2005/12/30/novell-edirectory-88-as-ume-data-source-for-ep150-part-ii

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Are you aware of any license policies or how should be a licence policy ??

Thanks.

Venkat.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Most of the organizations usually have an LDAP (for various reasons, most common being email). So in order to avoid re-work of creating the users once again in the SAP systems, one would prefer to integrate the SAP systems with the existing LDAP directories.

In the scenario that you have mentioned, I don't see the need of an LDAP directory. You could simply create 40 users in the portal system and through user mapping map them to the 5 users of ECC. but do have a look @ the licensing policy before you go ahead do that, because I am sure something like this would violate the same

Thanks,

GLM