CURRENTA EOMS

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A CURRENTA Bayer AG-ből történő kiválásával a MEGATRON Professional IT-Services GmbH a Tata Consulting Services Germany fővállalkozó alvállalkozójaként vette át az átállást. A szoftvergyártó Macro 4 GmbH-val közösen a CURRENTA-nál a teljes OMS-térséget létrehozták, és a Bayer-csoport meglévő nyomtatóit a CURRENTA-ra migrálták. A Bayer világán belüli összeköttetéseknek köszönhetően a CURRENTA ma is a Bayer más részlegei, például a CHEMION és a TECTRION leányvállalatok OMS-szolgáltatójaként működik. A migrációt követően a MEGATRON Professional IT-Services vette át a teljes OMS-megoldás üzemeltetési szolgáltatásait, és ma is üzemelteti azt. 2022 óta a MEGATRON a TCS bevonása nélkül a CURRENTA számára az EOMS megoldás közvetlen szolgáltatója. Mivel a CURRENTA-nál az EOMS bevezetésének projektnyelve az angol volt, a leírás most angolul következik.

1.1 Brief description of the application

The Output Management System Service enables a rapid and reliable output of documents out of ERP systems like SAP®, regardless of the document format or destination, be it print, e-mail, fax or archive.

The service includes provisioning of Output Management System Environment

The service includes the connection from the enterprise applications to the output management system environment as well as the following activities: Installation and provisioning of the OMS environment (hardware and software infrastructure components) and the required system components including StreamServe form development environment, routing server with form preparation and server systems for connection of different output channels like printer, fax, e-mail or archiving systems.

The OMS system management comprehends all planning tasks for the utilized system components:

  • Connection of SAP® system strand (D-, Q-, P- system) to OMS with the functionality of
    printing, faxing, archiving, file distributing and e-mailing.
  • Connections to archive-, document-, fax- and e-mail systems and different kind of file servers
    are part of the OMS.
  • Operation of Output Management System Environment

 

The service includes the following activities:

  • Operation of the OMS environment (hardware and software infrastructure components) and the
    required system components including
  • StreamServe form development environment, routing server with form preparation and server

 

1.2 Technical interface concept

Fail-safety is done by running the servers as virtual servers on clustered virtual hosts. Productive logical OMS definitions within SAP®are configured with a backup destination OMS server and instance. In addition the Columbus OM versions 4.3 (and above) provide built-in failover functionality. When sending queue entries to (next/remote) instances there is a failover instance to specify. The other services are installed in the way, that they are exactly set-up the same way up and running on each OMS server that can directly be addressed by productive SAP®systems.

 

2 Architecture

2.1 Architectural standards

The Output Management is based on or dependent from several services.

Linux standard server maintained/supported by TCS Infra Team

LAN-, WAN, DNS-, Firewall service provided by Currenta

Fax services, provided by the related team within the Bayer Business Services GmbH and by OpenScape

Database Services, supported/provided by Currenta Database Team

 

2.2 Architecture Overview

The output management system is a solution, which comprises business critical application services with the following features and distribution channels in the sense of document logistics:

  • Spooling and printer queues
  • Management of printers and printer queues
  • Forms formatting and distribution by StreamServer
  • Sending of form output via e-mail
  • Sending of form output via fax by OpenScape and StreamServe
  • Sending of form output via FTP or sFTP on QITS’s LPD/LPR queue
  • Archive documents/files by KGS (OMS Connector) and StreamServe

 

The Output Management is based on the Columbus OM, StreamServe and Columbus Administrator, operated on server with operating system Linux.

In addition the OMS servers are located in different network segments to fulfill the security guidelines. These guidelines regulate that only dedicated server-to-server connections are allowed between the different network segments. This measure prevents the network from intruders and other IT based attacks.

 

2.2.1 System landscape

Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG is using the SAP® R/3 three-tier architecture (Production, Development- and Quality Assurance).

The OMS for production consists of the Columbus OM SAP® gateways for CMP and CGP and the central OMS print server on 2 systems.

The OMS for DEV/QA consists of CGD, CMQ, CMD and CGQ SAP® systems including the Columbus OM SAP® gateway and the central OMS print server on 2 systems.

The Columbus OM gateway and the Columbus OM instance on the central print server are exchanging status feedback via RFC callback mechanism via SAP® BC-XOM interface. All print output of the SAP® applications will be passed through the BC-XOM interface and trans-ferred from the Columbus OM SAP® gateway and to the central print server.

The central print server is VMware based and provides fault tolerant mechanism.

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