FIREFIGHTER

Mona Katiyar

Agenda
FF Overview/Introduction FF Roles/Users Table Administration User Based Interface Using Firefighter Dashboard

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FIRE FIGHTER OVERVIEW

Responsibility for tasks outside once normal job function Performing tasks in emergency situation Its an ABAP- based and Web- based Application

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Logging Information
Firefighter gathers logging information from the following: Statistical Records/User Activities (STAT) The SAP Systems log activities categorized by transaction and user in statistical records. Change Documents (CDHDR) Change documents, are captured in this table. Transactions All transactions that are successfully entered are reported (whether any updates were made or not). Programs Executed If transactions SA38 or SE38 are executed and a program is run, the program name will be reported.
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Fire Fighter Roles/Users

Firefighter Roles:
There are three types of Firefighter roles: Administrator Owner Firefighter

Firefighter Users:
Administrators Owner Firefighters Controllers

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FireFighter IDs
Its a user ID with specific roles that allow FireFighter to perform required tasks. FireFighter IDs are assigned to FireFighters to enable FireFighters to perform the tasks for which they are not usually authorized to.

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Creation & Assigning Roles

Creating a Firefighter ID run transaction su01 Type: Service Profile: Sap_New Creating a Firefighter User run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_FIREFIGHTER Creating a Firefighter Owner run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ID_OWNER
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Creating a Firefighter Controller run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ID_OWNER

Creating a Firefighter Administrator run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ADMINISTRATOR

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FireFighter Interface -USER BASED FF Tables

Owners Firefighters Controllers Reason Code Security Configuration Critical Tcodes

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FireFighter Dashboard- User Based

Its the entry point for firefighters

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FF Table Administration
Assigning Firefighter IDs to Owners Table used: Owners

Firefighter ID Owners act as managers of Firefighter IDs.

There can be only one Owner for each Firefighter ID(5.2) / 5.3 we have multiple owners. Owners can be assigned multiple Firefighter IDs. Firefighter ID Owners can assign their Firefighter IDs to Firefighters and Controllers

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Assigning Firefighter IDs to Firefighters Table used: Firefighters

Steps:
Click Firefighters table on the Firefighter toolbar Click New Entries. Enter/Select the Firefighter ID Enter/Select the Firefighter Enter the date range to keep the Firefighters account active. Click the Save button
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Assigning Firefighter IDs to Controllers Table used: Controllers

Controllers can have Log Reports emailed as attachments each time the /VIRSA/ ZVFATBAK background job is run. A Controller can be responsible for more than one Firefighter ID. A Firefighter ID can be assigned to multiple Controllers. Two emails are generated by Firefighter, Login Notification and Log report in the persons

inbox whose email address is mentioned while creating..

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Assigning Firefighter ID Passwords Table used: Security

Steps:
Click Security table on the Firefighter toolbar Click New Entries. Enter/Select the Firefighter ID Enter the password in the Password column. Click the Save button

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Creating Reason Code Categories Table used: Reason Code

Steps:
Click Reason Code table on the Firefighter toolbar Click New Entries. Enter the Reason Code Use the description field to describe the Reason Code. Click the Save button

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Using Configuration Table

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Its Parameters
Remote Function Call Retrieve Change Log Critical Transaction Table from Compliance Calibrator (VRAT) Default Role Expiration (In Days) Firefighter Owner Additional Authorization Firefighter Controller Additional Authorization Send Log Report with Critical Transactions Only

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Parameters Ctd..

Send Log Report Execution Notification Send Log Report Execution Notification Immediately Send FirefightId Login Notification .Send Firefighter Login Notification Immediately Assign FF Roles Instead of FF IDs

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Configuring the Critical Tcodes table Table used: Critical Tcodes

Steps: Click New entries. Enter the transaction code in the Transaction Code column. Enter a description in the Transaction Text column. Click the Save button.

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Tool Box Reports-User based

There are 7+1 reports available in the toolbox

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ROLE BASED FIREFIGHTER

FireFighter can be used by making it role based too. This is done via making a role assignment to the FF. For Role based FF to work change the parameter Assign FF Role Instead of FF Ids to Yes in the Configuration Table as shown

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FireFighter Interface- Tables ROLE BASED

Owners Firefighters Controllers Configuration Critical Tcodes

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FireFighter Dashboard- Role Based

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Creation & Assigning Roles

Creating a Firefighter User run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: Creating a Firefighter Owner run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role: Creating a Firefighter Controller run transaction su01 Type: Dialogue Role:

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Assignment

The assignments are done the same way as done in user based FF with the difference being that we dont require a FF Id to assign to a FF instead a FF Role is assigned to a FF, thus the FF user can log into the application and perform the FF functions using the role assigned to it. Assigning Role to Owner Assigning Role to Firefighter Assigning Role to Controller

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Tool Box Reports-Role based

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Logging into Application

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Web-Based Reports

Creating connectors
Connectors are used to connect to the ABAP system where the Firefighter application resides Under configuration tab choose connector create fill the fields with appropriate values

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Search connectors
Under configuration tab choose connector search

The system displays the following information

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User Based Firefighter Reports

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Log Summary Report

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Log Summary Report

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Reason\Activity Report

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Transaction usage Report

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Invalid Firefighter Ids ,Controllers or Owners Report

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Log Report

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SOD Conflicts in Firefighter Report

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Role Based Reports

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Log Report

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Thank you!

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