CUA(Central User Administration) configuration step by step

  This document will help you to configure CUA in multiple client/systems in your sap landscape.

Preparation:

1.       SAP Landscape/single system with multiple clients

2.       Access to SAP and tcodes SU01, BD54, BD64, SCC4, SCUA, SCUM, SM59

3.       Create system users in central system and child systems

4.       Create RFC connections between systems

5.       Create logical system

6.       Assign logical system to corresponding clients

7.       Create model view

8.       Add BAPI to model view

9.       Generate partner profiles and distribute model view

10.   Create CUA and distribution model

11.   Maintain parameters between central and child systems

All the above steps required to configure CUA in your SAP landscape

In this tutorial we are going to look at CUA between two clients

Let’s see CUA configuration step by step.

 1.       SAP Landscape/single system with multiple clients: 

We have a sap system called EC3 with two clients.

I am going to use 400 as central client and 410 as child client.

2.       Access to SAP and tcodes SU01, BD54, BD64, SCC4, SCUA, SCUM, SM59:

I Have access to SAP system EC3 and all the above tcodes.

3.       Create system users in central system and child systems:

These system users required for RFC configuration between two clients

Client 1:    400	User : CUA_EC400
Client 2:    410	User : CUA_EC410

 

               Above are the usernames created in client 400 and 410 respectively with below roles.

User CUA_EC400 with below roles

SAP_BC_USR_CUA_CENTRAL

SAP_BC_USR_CUA_CENTRAL_BDIST

SAP_BC_USR_CUA_CENTRAL_EXTERN

User CUA_EC410with below roles

SAP_BC_USR_CUA_CLIENT

SAP_BC_USR_CUA_SETUP_CLIENT

4.       Create RFC connections between system:

 

I have created RFC connection between these two clients and is R/3(ABAP) connections.

Please refer  RFC configuration between systems in the earlier post in our blog RFC Connections

5.       Create logical system:

You need to create logical system for each client/ system and make sure it shouldn’t defer from RFC connections respectively

Go to BD54 tcode and setup logical systems.

6.       Assign logical system to corresponding clients:

Go to tcode SCC4 and assign the logical systems to each client/system respectively.

7.       Create model view:

 

Now we are all set to go for model view creation.

Go to tcode BD64 and click change button

And then click create model view button and enter the model  view

Enter a short description and technical name as shown in the below and hit ok button

 8.       Add BAPI to model view:

Select the model view and click “Add BAPI”.

You need to enter model view, sender/client, receiver/server object name/interface and method

As said initially I used 400 client as sender/central system and 410 client as receiver/child systems

Enter the “object name and Method” as per above figure and click ok button.

9.       Generate partner profiles and distribute Model View:

 

We are done with model view creation and BAPI.

Now we need to generate partner profiles go to Environment and click generate partner profiles.

You will get a message saying partner profiles are generated newly if your generating 1^st time or you will get a system message like below figure.

Come back to the BD64 screen and select the model view and go to Edit ModelView --> select Distribute

This will distribute your model view to child systems and you will get message like below

So now we are done with model view creation and distribution.

10.   Create CUA and distribution model:

Go to tcode SCUA and create distribution model

Enter the model view name which is created in BD64 earlier and click create button as shown in below figure.

Now you will get a screen like below and select the child systems in the pop up screen

Once you selected the system name and click save.

You will get a screen like below if you are done everything correctly which means your CUA configuration is done successfully.

So we are done with CUA configuration successfully.

11.   Maintain parameter between central  and child systems:

Once we are good with CUA configuration there are parameter setup needs to be done from central system like which all are maintained in central and child systems

Go to SCUM tcode àclick to change mode for parameter maintenance

It will give you broad idea about what are the parameters should be maintained centrally and which can be maintained child system as well as globally.

Ex. Role addition should be done from central system and password reset and  defaults can be maintained from both centrally and local

Please let me know if you have any suggestions and comments so I can improve the future post.

I will post video tutorial on this topic in upcoming days which will help you to learn much more easily.

Regards,

Radhakrishnan R