SAP Cloud ALM and Service keys

To successfully connect your ALM Plugin for Grafana to SAP Cloud ALM, you need a service key in the SAP Cloud ALM API instance so that the plugin can authenticate against the SAP Cloud ALM tenant. The following steps describe the whole process.

Prerequisites:

• You have access to the subaccount
• A Cloud Foundry space has been created

Step by Step

1. Connect to your SAP Cloud ALM subaccount and select the Instances and Subscription section under the Services area, then click on the Create button.

2. Select the SAP Cloud ALM API Service, assign a dedicated space (create one if needed) in the Cloud Foundry environment use a proper name for the instance, then click on the Next button.

3. Copy the following scope and paste it in the instance parameter area (you can chose your own xsappname, in this case we selected cloud-alm-api-grafana), then click on the Create button.

{
   "xs-security": {  
      "xsappname": "cloud-alm-api-grafana",
        "authorities": [
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.analytics.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.analytics.providers.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.demo-tasks.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.projects.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.projects.write",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.tasks.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.tasks.write",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.tests.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.integration-monitoring.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.bsm.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.defects.read",
          "$XSMASTERAPPNAME.calm-api.requirements.read"
                        ]
                    }
}

3. Once the new instance is generated, create a new service key by selecting the proper line in the Instances table and clicking on the Action button (the three dots on the top right section of the screen)

4. Assign a name to the service key and click on the Create button

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You now have created a Service Key that can be used to configure the ALM Plugin, please refer to Configure a new path in the plugin for further details.