List of actively addressed adapters for Adapter Engine

[george_hamilton]

There are two different types of adapter for sending data from a sender application

system to the Integration Server:

• Adapters that can be actively addressed, for example the ABAP proxy adapter, the plain HTTP adapter, the IDoc adapter

• Polling adapters, for example the file/FTP adapter and the mail adapter

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Can anyone specify which adapters can be actively addressed? I'm using XI scaling and need to know which adapters I have to point to the adapter engine, versus polling adapters.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George!

By "actively addressed" adapters, it means adapters that send data to XI actively and does not require XI to be monitoring a specified resource

For Actively addressed (sender), you have:

- ABAP Proxy

- Plain HTTP

- SAP BC (via http)

- IDOC

- RFC

- SOAP

- XI

Polling:

- FTP/File (poll interval for checking folder / ftp account directory)

- JDBC (poll interval for executing select query in source database)

- MAIL (poll interval for checking mail account: pop3, imap, etc.)

- JMS (uses user/pass to access queue)

here is a list of adapters:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/content.htm

Regards,

Matias

[george_hamilton · Accepted solution]

Thanks! I'm doing XI Scaling and it seems that every actively addressed adapter has to be reconded with.

Connects to message server:

IDOC - Use load balancing via Central Instance logon load balancing

RFC - load balancing on Central Instance

ABAP Proxy (XI protocol or SOAP - so still HTTP)

HTTP

SAP BC (HTTP)

SOAP (HTTP)

XI (http)

So I can see how the web dispatcher will balance the load for the http type adapters, and the ABAP stack takes the IDOC/rfc directly, but I don't understand how the JDBC adapter would be load balanced.

Does the above sound right?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George !

It sounds ok.

Here are some links that might be useful:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e10b4b78-0801-0010-aaba-fb0a5f9c...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/56/1e5d427213d142e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Regards,

Matias.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Mistaken post.

Message was edited by:

Thomas Stockli

[george_hamilton · Accepted solution]

So I guess the JDBC adapter would be load balanced (pointed to) the web dispatcher also.

Here's a dumb question: Every communication into the XI System comes through the Integration Server URL --> http://<hostname>:8000/sap/xi/engine?type=entry