ARIBA Adapter Installation - Not appearing in Communication Channel

[sherin_jose4]

Hi,

We are working on an Integration project to connect ARIBA with SAP ECC having SAP PI as the middleware.

As part of the initial installation, our Basis person has communicated to me that he has installed the ITK adapter (ARIBA) in our Development system. However, i am not able to see the same when i load the list of adapters when creating a communication channel.

Is there any specific steps required to be done to populate the Adapter details in the Communcation Channel (Adapter Type) ?

[sherin_jose4 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just now had a discussion with the ARIBA consultants and looks like the requirement is not to connect to the ARIBA cloud system but it is about connection using ITK toolkit, which is more of connection using the Jobs in Jobs scheduler. Ideally it will mostly be a file based connection to the ARIBA system.

Now my doubt is that is it efficient in every way to schedule the file transfers using Java Jobs or by creating an interface itself.

[former_member184720 · Accepted solution]

>>Now my doubt is that is it efficient in every way to schedule the file transfers using Java Jobs or by creating an interface itself.

I believe that is the standard process recommended by Ariba/SAP to transfer master data and most customers implemented the same approach. There is no need to apply any transformation as the files might have been generated by Ariba ERP add-on. So processing files using batch jobs shouldn't be an issue.

[arunneerolil · Accepted solution]

Hi Sherin,

Ariba ITK can communicate with SAP ERP directly. You can bypass PI if required.

It can take care of the scheduling as well.

Regards,

Arun

[arunneerolil]

check if you have imported the Software Component for Ariba Adapter

Adapter metadata is in the above namespace. Make sure that you can see this in the ESR

regards,

Arun

[sherin_jose4]

Hi Arun,

Thanks for your reply.

I did not see this software component (TPZ) provided to me and i also tried to look this in the SLD and was not able to find this.

Should this be provided to us by ARIBA consultants ?

[former_member184720]

You can download it by yourself.

Refer to download and installation section in the below blog,

[Former Member]

Hi Arun,

We are facing the same problem "Ariba adapter not showing in monitor" after deploying the AribaNetworkAdapterSAPNetweaver_SapAddOn.tpz on PO7.5 server. Is there any metadata file to be placed on the server ?

We are using CI6 version of Ariba adapter as shown in the above screenshot.

Regards

Varun   

[Former Member]

Thanks, issue was resolved with basis team reinstalling the adapter again and also the metadata files

[Muniyappan]

is adapter metadata available in ESR? Did you import .tpz file into ESR?