Exchange Infrastructure (XI) in a Nutshell (Getting Started).....

Getting Started with Exchange Infrastructure now becomes easy.....

Here is a blog with everything you need to start working on XI.....

Check out the transactions which are frequently used:

SXMB_IFR - Start Integration Builder

SXMB_MONI - Integration Engine (Monitoring)

SXI_MONITOR - XI Message Monitoring

SLDCHECK - test SLD Connection

Some more...

SLDAPICUST - SLD API Customizing

SXMB_ADM - Administration of Integration Engine

SXI_CACHE - Directory Cache of XI

SXMB_MONI_BPE - Process Engine - Monitoring

Some very useful URLs....

hostname - is the host name of the server on which XI is running

inst number - is the instance number (example: 50000,50100 for port 00,01)

http://hostname:5inst number00/rep --- Exchange Infrastructure Tools

http://hostname:5inst number00/sld --- System Landscape Directory

http://hostname:5inst number00/rwb --- Runtime Workbench

Some more URLs which can be of use (not in the initial stage)...

http://hostname:5inst number00/MessagingSystem --- Message Display Tool

http://hostname:5inst number00/mdt/amtServlet --- Adapter Monitor

http://hostname:5inst number00/exchangeProfile --- Exchange Infrastructure Profile

http://hostname:5inst number00/CPACache --- CPA Cache Monitoring

http://hostname:5inst number00/CPACache/refresh?mode=delta --- Delta CPA cache refresh

http://hostname:5inst number00/CPACache/refresh?mode=full --- Full CPA cache refresh

Now some transaction related to IDOC's as IDOC play a very important role in XI...

WE60 - Documentation for IDoc types

BD87 - Status Monitor for ALE Messages

IDX1 - Maintenance of Port in IDoc Adapter

IDX2 - Meta Data Overview in IDoc Adapter

WE05 - Lists the IDocs

WE02 - Displays the IDoc

WE19 - Test Tool

WE09 - Search for IDocs by Content