Activation of web service for tia® Viewer Core
- Armin Franke
The web service tia_viewer on SAP system is setup with the transport imported before:
It listens to the port set up for HTTP protocol in SAP profiles.
Its URL is: https://<sap-system>:<port>/tia/tia_viewer
For setup of tia Viewer Core instances to this created web service in SAP, look for parameters sap.url, sap.user, sap.password in Reference of instance settings .
To active the web service tia_viewer, follow these steps:
Execute transaction
SICFand press Execute button
In the Virtual Hosts / Services tree view find
tia>tia_viewer
Right-Click tia_viewer and select Activate Service of the context menu.
When being asked Do you want to activate service /default_host/tia/tia_viewer? , select Yes.
Now the web service is activated and listening.
Right-Click
tia_vieweragain and select Test Service of the context menu.
The browser opens and shows following browser will open and will show the following result:
When JSON document above is returned, the connection test is successful, although the property success in the response is false. This is because the test request did not contain a JSON-formatted POST document expected by tia_viewer web service.