App Setup Page

Determine which of the options below should be selected:

• Defaults Selection: Sets the following default options… 

  • Default TimeRange: Select the time range that is used as the default for most dashboards in the app. 

  • Default Span: Select the time span that is used as the default for span inputs across the app. 

  • SAP Data Indexes: Indicate which indexes are used for SAP data. This populates one of the macros used for searches across the app. 

  • SAP Metric Indexes: Indicate which indexes are used for SAP metrics. This populates another macro used for searches across the app. This feature is currently in limited implementation. 

• SAP Product Selection 

  • Database Selection: Allows you to check the database types used by your SAP implementation. This will ensure that only the required database dashboards are visible in the app. 

  • SAP Cloud Selection: Allows you to check the SAP Cloud products used by your SAP implementation. This will ensure that only the required SAP Cloud dashboards are visible in the app. 

  • SAP Fiori Selection: Allows you to indicate whether your SAP implementation includes SAP Fiori. This will ensure that the SAP Fiori dashboards are visible in the app. 

• Application Setup Status: Please ensure this is checked in order to record the configuration status of the app. 

After configuration, click “Save” to apply the changes and the page will redirect to the next view where you can populate system lookups.

Welcome

The Welcome page introduces the setup process and performs preliminary checks to ensure that the current user has the capabilities necessary to run setup. If the conditions are met, the Next button will appear.

Configure Data Ingest

As part of the Splunk app setup, users will need to create HTTP Endpoint Collectors and Indexes for SAP data. The Next button will appear when the user indicates that these requirements are met by checking the box.

Select Indexes

This page configures the base search macros for event and metric SAP data indexes. The user selects indexes from available lists. With each input, the following controls are present:

• Scan for Data: Scan available indexes for existing SAP data. This is useful if your Splunk instance is already ingesting data from SAP systems.

• Reset Selection: Removes current selections.

Select SAP Products

Configure the SAP products monitored by PowerConnect on this page. these selections will control what dashboards are visible in the navigation menu, including:

• Database types

• SAP Cloud Products

• Other SAP Products

Set Dashboard Defaults

Set the default time range for Splunk dashboards as well as the default span for time-based charting in applicable Splunk dashboards.

Confirm Setup

Review the setup options before clicking “Finish” to save the app configuration. If the application saves successfully, you will be redirected to the next page for populating lookups used in the PowerConnect Splunk app.