subscribing-to-cloud-transport-management-7fe10fc.md

Subscribing to Cloud Transport Management

To enable the usage of the user interface of SAP Cloud Transport Management service, subscribe to the Cloud Transport Management application.

Note:

If you are using this service as part of a service from the SAP Build ecosystem, follow the instructions in the Initial Setup of SAP Build documentation instead.

Prerequisites

You've configured an entitlement for the Cloud Transport Management application. For more information, see Configuring Entitlements to SAP Cloud Transport Management.

Procedure

To subscribe to SAP Cloud Transport Management, follow these steps:

Step	Action	More Information
	In the subaccount, in which you want to use SAP Cloud Transport Management, choose Services > Service Marketplace. Recommendation: Run SAP Cloud Transport Management service as shared service, by setting it up on a central administrative subaccount, to facilitate role management and allow strict access control. Note: If you're integrating SAP Cloud Transport Management with SAP Cloud ALM, don't use the SAP Cloud ALM subaccount. The entitled subscriptions are shown.	Subscribe to Multitenant Applications Using the Cockpit
	Search for Cloud Transport Management.
	On the Cloud Transport Management tile, choose  (Actions) and Create. Note: If you haven't selected an instance plan when configuring the entitlements, a different Cloud Transport Management tile with a different text is displayed.
	In the subsequent dialog, from the Plan dropdown box, select one of the available plans of type Subscription that are displayed depending on the entitlements that you previously added to the subaccount. In the screenshot, this is the standard plan. Once you've selected the plan, you no longer see Subscription displayed in the Plan field, only the name of the selected plan, here standard. Afterwards, choose Create. Note: Make sure that you select a plan of type Subscription. Depending on your entitlement, this can be one of the following: build-runtime (Use this plan, if you're using SAP Cloud Transport Management to transport content created using a service from the SAP Build ecosystem.) free standard
	A dialog box shows that the subscription is in progress. Choose View Subscription.
	The status Subscribed shows that the subscription is activated.

The Go to Application link allows you to start the user interface of SAP Cloud Transport Management. You can log on with your e-mail address and password as usual.

However, before you can use it, you'll need to set up role collections and assign roles and permissions to your user.

Note:

You can always check your subscriptions under Services > Instances and Subsriptions.

Tip:

To update from an existing subscription plan to another plan, see Updating the Service Plan.