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Connect to SAP
Prepare your SAP system, connect it to SAP BTP through Cloud Connector, and expose and secure its APIs in SAP API Management.
Configure API Management in SAP BTP
Set up API providers and proxies, secure consumer access, and publish APIs for registered applications.
Verify Prerequisites
Check the BTP subaccount, Cloud Connector connection, and API Management services needed before creating proxies.

Title and Copyright
Find the guide's release and publication details, copyright notices, and terms of use.
Preface
Identify the guide's audience, text conventions, related products, and documentation contacts.
Introduction
Control network access, connect iMaintenance to SAP or Maximo, and initialize iMaintenance data and services.
Control Network Access to iMaintenance
Coordinate Innovapptive-managed inbound IP restrictions and customer-managed outbound domain access.
Connect to SAP
Prepare your SAP system, connect it to SAP BTP through Cloud Connector, and expose and secure its APIs in SAP API Management.
- Install Supporting Systems and iCWP Integration Suite
  Prepare SAP prerequisites, install the iCWP Integration Suite add-ons, and enable Gateway and OData services.
- Configure SAP iMaintenance Roles and Authorizations
  Prepare the SAP roles and authorizations used to access maintenance data and integration services.
- SAP BTP and On-Premise Integration via Cloud Connector
  Connect SAP BTP to your SAP backend through Cloud Connector and expose the required OData paths.
- Configure API Management in SAP BTP
  Set up API providers and proxies, secure consumer access, and publish APIs for registered applications.
  - Verify Prerequisites
    Check the BTP subaccount, Cloud Connector connection, and API Management services needed before creating proxies.
  - Required SAP BTP API Management Roles
    Identify the BTP and API Management roles used to administer providers, proxies, products, and applications.
  - Configure API Provider
    Define the Cloud Connector connection and catalog settings used by API Management to discover SAP OData services.
  - Create an API Proxy
    Create and deploy an API proxy for the iCWP Integration Suite OData service.
  - Secure API Proxies with Policy-Based Authentication
    Authenticate external API consumers with an API key or OAuth token and use stored service credentials for backend access.
  - Configure the Access Control Policy
    Apply IP access restrictions to an API proxy with SAP API Management's Access Control policy.
- Configure OAuth 2.0 Authentication
  Configure token generation and verification so external consumers can call protected integration APIs.
- Handle CSRF Tokens in API Management
  Fetch a backend CSRF token and pass it with the response cookies on applicable write requests.
Connect to Maximo
Configure IBM Maximo Application Suite 9 to publish asset, location, and work order changes to iMaintenance through Kafka.
Initialize iMaintenance
Initialize iMaintenance data, run backend data ingestion and field mapping, and prepare application services and scheduled jobs.
Troubleshoot Deployment Issues
Resolve the documented SAP OData metadata issue and trace missing Shift Handover Alerts and IMES data.

Verify Prerequisites

Check the BTP subaccount, Cloud Connector connection, and API Management services needed before creating proxies.

A subaccount created in SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry environment)
SAP Cloud Connector already set up and connected to your subaccount
The following services subscribed under your subaccount:
- API Management, API Portal
- Cloud Connector (if exposing on-premise APIs)