About the Technical Characteristics Adapter

Note: You can run the Characteristics Extraction Interfaces successfully only if the SAP Technical Characteristics license is active.

In SAP, you can assign specific characteristics to Equipment and Functional Locations. Each characteristic belongs to a classification, and each classification belongs to a class type. For example, the class type Equipment might contain the classification Storage Tanks, which might contain the characteristics Diameter and Wall Thickness, as illustrated in the following image:

When you extract Equipment and Functional Locations from SAP into the Meridium Enterprise APM system, their corresponding characteristics will not be extracted into the Equipment and Functional Location records that are created during the extraction process. If you want to extract their corresponding characteristics, you will need to run the Technical Characteristics Adapter. When you run these adapters, Technical Characteristic records are created to store the characteristics that have been configured to be extracted, and these records are linked automatically to the appropriate Equipment and Functional Location records.

In Meridium Enterprise APM, you can configure which characteristics you want to extract from SAP. When you do so, various actions that you perform in the Meridium Enterprise APM system and the SAP system cause specific results, as seen in the following table.

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