Using web transaction monitor to record dynamic java sessions.

Hello,
The title may be a bit confusing please forgive me for that :)
I am recording a login-logout session for a business objects portal.
Post login, the web application (as most do) generates unique tokens for each login session and uses that token for subsequent links for that single session.
The problem: SCOM, records the links that were generated during the recording session. Which generates lets say token
abcd. In subsequent iterations of the monitor, the web application will generate different tokens for each logon attempt but SCOM continues to use the links that were generated using the token
abcd. This causes false alerts as the token being used by SCOM is not dynamic!
This is going to be a serious hurdle for us as we have several similar applications and I need to find a work around or solution to this.
Have anybody come across this till now? Any suggestions will be of great help..
Thank you for your time.

Thanks! Exactly what I needed.
I hit a hurdle with that too because the portal I'm trying to monitor is passing the session variable using GET and not POST. We can insert parameters only into POST requests.
I will keep exploring and will post here if I find an answer. Meanwhile, if anybody has experienced this, would appreciate any inputs on how we can insert parameters into GET links directly.

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SCOM 2012 SP1 Web Transaction Monitoring with Login test.

Hi,
we setup a web transaction monitor test and did the full recording. The web site is one that accepts an active directory account for login. We also setup a runas account that is a valid account for the site and configured NTLM in the settings
for authetication and set this runas account.
The test does not fail.    However when we change the runas account password to force a failure, we dont get a failure on the website login test but instead a runas account verfication failure from SCOM.
How can we configure the web transaction monitor to properly login during the test?   Any guidance would be appreciated.
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So back to the original topic of the thread.
We setup another test on a site that uses basic authentication. We setup the web transaction test to use a login on a initial site that transfers to a second site. We recorded this entire test and saved. It seems to work as it gives
no errors.
However when we change the Runas account's credentials, which means it CANT login to the site, it still runs fine with no errors.
This tells me it is not really logging in but just seeing the http status code is less than 400.
What am I doing wrong.
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SCOM2012 Web Transaction Monitor - Displaying the Request Status

I have successfully created a 'Web Application Transaction Monitor' using the SCOM 2012 R2 Console wizard. The monitor goes through several listed website URLs and completes.
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Using Web Service from LiveCycle PDF Dynamic Form.

I have developed Staff Attendance Sheet about 7 years ago using Microsoft Office Web Componenets Data Access Pages (OWC DAP).
See image below of the current report using OWC DAP:
http://bit.ly/cAfeYs
Since we are moving our legacy systems to SAP, this report will have to be re-implemented using Adobe LiveCycle PDF which is connecting to Web Service over SAP Systems (since OWC does not connect to Web Service).
The SAP development team have developed the initial webservice which generates the required data.
I have developed the initial version of the LiveCycle PDF, which can be downloaded from this link:
http://bit.ly/9KBgm0
The following is a screen snapshot of the LC Desinger Form:http://bit.ly/cxMK62
When the web service is executed from inside PDF the result looks as follows:
http://bit.ly/cacbCg
The webservice accepts the following required parameters:
1. Period: YYYYMM. User Specified Value.
2. Staff ID: 9999999. It must be supplied automatcially to the web service and it must be the Windows ID of the User Logged In to Windows
Domain.
Other parameters are optional.
Assumptions:
==========
1. I am not using any Adobe Forms Server Technology. I can use LiveCycle Desinger ES2 and LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server.
2. I can alse develop using .NET to get the Logged In User ID (Windows), generate the XDP from ASPX Page and attach the XML to the XDP.
3. We are using IE8 with Adobe Reader 9 Plugin (IE add-on) to display LiveCycle PDF inside IE.
Questions:
========
1. First time the webservice is executed, I will get a prompt to allow/deny execution of the webservice. This is a security issue here, becuase we do not want any user to know the link to the Web Service. How we can hide the link to the webservice and prevent any user from getting the link ?
2. How I can stop the Prompt to Allow/Deny execution to the Web Service for good ? As you know, users will get confused, and when we launch this PDF, it will generate a lot of calls to the Service Desk (more than 1000 users).
3. The Web Service uses Simple User Name/Password for authentication to run the webservice. I need to embed the User Name/Password inside
the PDF, and also prevent any user for getting them, how ?
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I appreciate your help if you have any ideas about the above.
Tarek.

Hi Tarek,
First of all, Thank for your replying.
I have developing Adobe LiveCycle xdp form with a button. The SAP Web Service will be called when the button is pressed.
Before that, I ‘m able to call another ASP.NET web services by using SOAP.request call. However, when I apply the code to call SAP web service, it doesn’t work. I checked that the web service is valid. And I found that there is something wrong when implementing the SOAP.request call. But I have no idea what wrong is it. So, I beg your help
The following is the code in the click event of the button:
//mainData.sfMain.Button7[1]::click - (JavaScript, client)
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 var staffIDInput = "9999999";
 var oAuthenticator = {
 Username: "usr",
 Password: "pw"
app.alert("1");
 var response = SOAP.request({
 bEncoded: false,
 cResponseStyle: SOAPMessageStyle.Message,
 cURL: webServiceEndPoint,
 oRequest: {"urn:Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO":{A_STAFF_ID: staffIDInput}},
 cAction: "urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions",
 oAuthenticate: oAuthenticator
app.alert("2");
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:tns="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions" xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
- <wsdl:documentation>
<sidl:sidl xmlns:sidl="http://www.sap.com/2007/03/sidl" />
</wsdl:documentation>
<wsp:UsingPolicy wsdl:required="true" />
- <wsp:Policy wsu:Id="BN_ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <wsp:ExactlyOne xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy" xmlns:sapsp="http://www.sap.com/webas/630/soap/features/security/policy" xmlns:sp="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702" xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility">
- <wsp:All>
- <sp:TransportBinding>
- <wsp:Policy>
- <sp:TransportToken>
- <wsp:Policy>
<sp:HttpsToken />
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:TransportToken>
- <sp:AlgorithmSuite>
- <wsp:Policy>
<sp:TripleDesRsa15 />
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:AlgorithmSuite>
- <sp:Layout>
- <wsp:Policy>
<sp:Strict />
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:Layout>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:TransportBinding>
</wsp:All>
</wsp:ExactlyOne>
<saptrnbnd:OptimizedXMLTransfer uri="http://xml.sap.com/2006/11/esi/esp/binxml" xmlns:saptrnbnd="http://www.sap.com/webas/710/soap/features/transportbinding/" wsp:Optional="true" />
</wsp:Policy>
- <wsp:Policy wsu:Id="IF_ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <sapsession:Session xmlns:sapsession="http://www.sap.com/webas/630/soap/features/session/">
<sapsession:enableSession>false</sapsession:enableSession>
</sapsession:Session>
<wsp:ExactlyOne xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy" xmlns:sapsp="http://www.sap.com/webas/630/soap/features/security/policy" xmlns:sp="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702" xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility" />
</wsp:Policy>
- <wsp:Policy wsu:Id="OP_Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
<sapcomhnd:enableCommit xmlns:sapcomhnd="http://www.sap.com/NW05/soap/features/commit/">false</sapcomhnd:enableCommit>
<sapblock:enableBlocking xmlns:sapblock="http://www.sap.com/NW05/soap/features/blocking/">true</sapblock:enableBlocking>
<saptrhnw05:required xmlns:saptrhnw05="http://www.sap.com/NW05/soap/features/transaction/">no</saptrhnw05:required>
<saprmnw05:enableWSRM xmlns:saprmnw05="http://www.sap.com/NW05/soap/features/wsrm/">false</saprmnw05:enableWSRM>
</wsp:Policy>
- <wsdl:types>
- <xsd:schema attributeFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions">
- <xsd:element name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <xsd:complexType>
- <xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="A_STAFF_ID" type="xsd:string" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
- <xsd:element name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFOResponse">
- <xsd:complexType>
- <xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="L_BANK_ACC" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="L_BANK_ACC_HOLDER" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="L_BANK_NAME" type="xsd:string" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>
</wsdl:types>
- <wsdl:message name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
<wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" />
</wsdl:message>
- <wsdl:message name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFOResponse">
<wsdl:part name="parameter" element="tns:Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFOResponse" />
</wsdl:message>
- <wsdl:portType name="ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <wsp:Policy>
<wsp:PolicyReference URI="#IF_ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" />
</wsp:Policy>
- <wsdl:operation name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <wsp:Policy>
<wsp:PolicyReference URI="#OP_Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" />
</wsp:Policy>
<wsdl:input message="tns:Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" />
<wsdl:output message="tns:Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFOResponse" />
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>
- <wsdl:binding name="ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" type="tns:ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
- <wsp:Policy>
<wsp:PolicyReference URI="#BN_ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" />
</wsp:Policy>
<soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="document" />
- <wsdl:operation name="Z_RFC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
<soap:operation soapAction="" style="document" />
- <wsdl:input>
<soap:body use="literal" />
</wsdl:input>
- <wsdl:output>
<soap:body use="literal" />
</wsdl:output>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>
- <wsdl:service name="service">
- <wsdl:port name="ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO" binding="tns:ZWS_ALC_GET_STAFF_BANK_INFO">
<soap:address location="http://xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.com:8000/sap/bc/srt/rfc/sap/zws_alc_get_staff_bank_info/300/zws_alc _get_staff_bank_info/zws_alc_get_staff_bank_info" />
</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>

Bypass certificate errors in web transaction monitoring

Hello,
I have a portal that has a certificate issue which is creating alerts.
I am getting error code 2147954575 ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_FAILURE
Is there a way to bypass this? When I record session, the browser takes me to the login page without any errors. This is failing only when I run the test from within SCOM.
Thanks!

Hi ardnivar,
Please look at this post:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/48bafad7-811f-4f3c-b0d9-0031cd486d75/how-do-i-ignore-ssl-errors-in-web-application-availability-monitoring?forum=scomapm
Natalya
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Monitoring using Business Transaction Monitoring

Hi,
I have deployed BTM for Demo purpose. Its an EAR files.
How do I start monitoring my services.
I also deployed SOA composite. But the services are not getting monitored.
Do I need to install any observer for the demo version too?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Web Application Transaction Monitoring Alerts with "wrong" Path

Hello,
i have created some web transaction monitors, such as
http://foo.htm who is hosted on the server foo123.cologne.org.
It works.. but
we have also a mssql monitoring, the discovery of the mssql management pack discovers the reporting part of mssql server on our managementserver Operations12.cologne.org. So (it's right..) the server Operations12.cologne.org is a member of the SQL Instances;SQL
Compontents;SQL Computers group.
When the web transaction monitor generates an alert, it have the pathname Operations12.cologne.org and not the pathname of the "right" server foo123.cologne.org.
For our mssql admins i have build an email-notification, when somethings going wrong at our sql servers (member of the SQL Instances;SQL Compontents;SQL Computers group) they received a mail.
The problem is, that they received a mail, when a web transaction monitor generated one, because the pathname is the name of our management server, because the management server is a member of thos sql server groups.
Someone have an idea to fix my "problem"?
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Kind regards
Wolfgang Winter

Thank you, it's a help to decide, what to do, so i have to solutions:
- installing an agent to the web-appliction-hosting-server and configure it as a watcher node
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- configure a part of our management server group without SQL-Reporter Component as a watcher node
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Can't record web session in Web Application Transaction Monitoring using IE10 (Tried under Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012)

Hi,
In Operations Manager Console 2012 SP1 including RU2 I am trying to record a web session in Web Application Transaction Monitoring.
I have check that:
The add-on (Microsoft Web Recorder Helper) 64bit is Enabled.
The 64bit version of IE10 is running/launched. See this link for how to modify your registry key if needed: http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/scom-2012-recording-web-browser-session.html
I have tried both on a Windows 2008R2 and 2012 server, but the recorder is not showing up as can been seen from Kevin's Blog (link above).
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I managed to get this working on both Windows 8 IE10 and server 2012 IE10. Tested on SCOM 2012 SP1 UR2 and UR3. I've done this process in lab and production several times so hopefully this helps you out.
Checklist:
1. Ensure that the 64bit IE10 is launching when the "start web-capture" is started in SCOM.
2. Enable IE10 internet options:
a: Advanced - Security - Enable Enhanced Protected Mode
b: Advanced - Browsing - Enable third-party browser extensions
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- Browse to the following regkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\Component Categories64\
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{00021493-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
{00021494-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
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Have Web App/Transaction monitoring alert only when majority of watcher nodes are in error?

We do a lot of web app/transaction monitoring and we have watcher nodes distributed globally. When we have connectivity issues at a site hosting a watcher node, the web monitors that target the watcher node in that site all alert even though all the other
watcher nodes are fine.
We'd like to reduce the noise from our web monitoring by having alerts fire only when a majority, or some other defined ratio, of watcher nodes are in an error condition. Is this possible, and if so, how?
For reference, we're running 2012 R2 and monitor hundreds of URLs. This list of URLs and watcher nodes is fairly dynamic, so we'd prefer to find a solution that doesn't require manual development (e.g. creating distributed apps), however if that's the only
path then it would also be good to know.

First, disable the alerts from the web application that you have created.
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Once the distributed application designer has loaded, client the 'Add Component' button.
Give it a name - Something like 'Appname web monitor component group'
Choose the 'objects of the following type(s)' radio button. Navigate the tree:
Entity -> Logical Entity -> Perspective -> Web Application Perspective -> YOURWEBMONITOR
Tick the box next to the name of your web monitor.
Now, on the left, in the Objects bar, you should see the watcher nodes for your web application. Add ALL the watcher nodes into the component group by dragging them in.
Now save your distributed application.
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In the override properties window, Tick the box next to the 'Rollup Algorithm' and change the Override Value to Worst state of a percentage of members in good health state' and override 'percentage' value into your expected value.
OK the changes and then save the distributed application once again.
Before you exit the designer, note the name of the component group that you created.
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Open the properties of that item, go to the alerting tab and
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Java Application Performance Monitoring - J2EE Transaction Monitoring

Hi,
Does SCOM 2012 R2 support J2EE transaction monitoring, ie how application behaves from end users. Apdex scores,response time and throughput , Execution method and SQL queries.I could not find transaction monitoring information in Java MP guide.
Is that Java managment pack supports monitoring only Tomcat and not weblogic,websphere and jboss on Linux servers,
Appreciate help in this
Thanks in advance
Bharath

Hi Bharath,
"Apdex scores,response time and throughput , Execution method and SQL queries."
You're talking about the metrics similar to those which we have after configuring application monitoring in .NET Application Performance Monitoring (AVIcode APM) template, right? If so, this sort of APM profiling for Java apps introduced in SCOM 2012
R2. But it's only for Tomcat5.5+ hosted Web Applications:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/random_happy_dev_thoughts/archive/2014/01/07/system-center-2012-management-pack-for-java-application-performance-monitoring-released.aspx
If you use another application server rather than Tomcat (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss), I would recommend you to take a look at BeanSpy instrumentation itself:
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/demystifying-jee-app-performance-monitoring-in-opsmgr-2012-jee-faqs/
Download link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29270
This is not AVIcode-like APM (AVIcode-like APM relies on it as a prerequisite), but if you are familiar with MBeans structure, you could configure quite interesting monitoring transactions for your java apps:
http://blogs.inframon.com/post/2012/04/27/WebSphere-monitoring-with-the-JEE-Application-Performance-Monitoring-management-packs.aspx
http://stefanroth.net/2012/04/10/scom-2012-jee-application-availability-monitor-template/
Igor Savchenko, VIAcode Consulting LLC (http://www.viacode.com/)

Using the Model Facade Pattern in a Java EE 5 Web application

Hi,
Yutaka and I did a Tech tip
http://java.sun.com/mailers/techtips/enterprise/2006/TechTips_Nov06.html#2 on using a model facade pattern in Java EE 5 web-only applications recently. We got some questions about it, and these were some of the questions raised...
Question 1) the first part of the tech tip(it has two articles in it) http://java.sun.com/mailers/techtips/enterprise/2006/TechTips_Nov06.html showed how to access Java Persistence objects directly from a JSF managed bean, is this a good practice?
Question 2) when to use a facade(as mentioned in the second part of tech tip) ?
and maybe
Question 3) why doesn't the platform make this easier and provide the facade for you?
Briefly, I will take a shot at answering these three questions
Answer 1) You can access Java persistence directly from your managed beans, but as your application grows and you start to add more JSF managed beans or other web components(servlets, JSP pages etc) that also directly access Java Persistence objects, you will start to see that you are cutting/pasting similiar code to handle the transactions and to handle the Java Persistence EntityManager and other APIs in many places. So for larger applications, it is a good practice to introduce a model facade to centralize code and encapsulate teh details of the domain model management
Answer 2) IAs mentioned in answer 1, its good to use a model facade when your application starts to grow. For simple cases a spearate model facade class may not be needed and having managed beans do some of the work is a fast way to jumpstart you application development. But a facade can help keep the code clean and easier to maintain as the aplication grows.
Answer 3) First note that both of the articles in the tech tip were about pure web apps(not using any EJBs) and running on the Java EE5 platform. Yes it would be nice if a facility like this was made available for web-only applications(those not using EJBs). But for web-only applications you will need to use a hand-rolled facade as we outlined in the tech tip. The Java EE platform does provide a way to make implementing a facde easier though, and the solution for that is to use a Session Bean. This solution does require that you use ythe EJB container and have a Session Bean facade to access your Java Persistence objects and manage the transactions. The EJB Session Facade can do a lot of the work for you and you dont have to write code to manage the transactions or manage the EntityManager. This solution was not covered in this tech tip article but is covered in the Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog for Perssitence at
https://blueprints.dev.java.net/bpcatalog/ee5/persistence/facade.html in the section "Strategy 2: Using a Session Bean Facade" . Maybe we can cover that in a future tech tip.
Please ask anymore questions about the tech tip topic on this forum and we will try to answer.
hth,
Sean

Hi Sean,
I'm working on an implementation of the Model Facade pattern where you can possibly have many facades designed as services. Each service extends a basic POJO class which I'm calling CRUDService: its short code is provided below for your convenience.
The CRUDService class is meant to generalize CRUD operations regardless of the type of the object being used. So the service can be called as follows, for example:
Job flightAtt = new Job();
SERVICE.create(flightAtt);
Runway r = (Runway) SERVICE.read(Runway.class, 2);
Employee e = (Employee) SERVICE.read(Employee.class, 4);
SERVICE.update(e);
SERVICE.delete(r);SERVICE is a Singleton, the only instance of some service class extending CRUDService. Such a class will always include other methods encapsulating named queries, so the client won't need to know anything about the persistence layer.
Please notice that, in this scenario, DAOs aren't needed anymore as their role is now distributed among CRUDService and its subclasses.
My questions, then:
. Do you see any obvious pitfalls in what I've just described?
. Do you think traditional DAOs should still be used under JPA?
. It seems to me the Model Facade pattern isn't widely used because such a role can be fulfilled by frameworks like Spring... Would you agree?
Thanks so much,
Cristina Belderrain
Sao Paulo, Brazil
public class CRUDService {
    protected static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.
        getLogger(Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME);
    protected EntityManager em;
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/4f/07cf3dd28b5610e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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