Welcome to the F5 - SAP Usage Type Process Integration (PI) Deployment Guide. By taking advantage of this Application Ready infrastructure for SAP Usage Type PI (formerly known as Usage Type XI) deployments, organization can achieve a secure, fast and available network infrastructure that reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. This guide gives you step-by-step procedures on how to configure the BIG-IP LTM system for SAP Usage Type PI deployments.

With SAP Usage Type PI customers can connect systems and applications together to achieve common business-to-business tasks. Both internal company and cross-company application integration is possible with PI. During the configuration phase of designing the collaboration process and setting up the system landscape it’s helpful to create Web Application servers that are redundant for high availability.

Unlike software load balancers, BIG-IP LTM deployed in a high-availability pair will not itself be a single point of failure and therefore no additional configuration is required on BIG-IP itself. To configure SAP NetWeaver Usage Type PI for a high availability, configuration changes may need to be made to the Local System Landscape Directory, the Exchange Profile, the User Management Engine, the Integration Server, the Central Adapter Engine, the Central Monitoring Server and the Dialog Instance, depending on your particular setup of SAP. This guide covers the configuration of all of these steps, although several of them may be optional in your landscape. During the configuration of your SAP Landscape, primarily the local host name and port are replaced with virtual host name and port. For further instructions, please consult SAP Note 951910. This guide is intended to show all of the locations within SAP where changes may be necessary, however it is up to each individual administrator to analyze and decide whether the change applies to their SAP landscape.

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