Scenario After you have enabled your NetWeaver ABAP system to be an SAML 2.0 Service Provider you want to download its metadata and get an error message: 403 Forbidden. Tx: SAML2 Call the SAML 2.0 configuration Web Dynpro app via transaction SAML2 and click on Metadata. Select what to include Read more…
I run an SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dev Edition system in a Virtual Box VM. Unfortunately, the update process for this software is to delete and reinstall after the DB license expires. Installing a new NW ABAP version is not overly complex: the SAP provided installer is easy to use and Read more…
This blog will help you to connect to your SAP NetWeaver ABAP instance running inside a Docker container. For how to get NetWeaver running inside a Docker container, please see my blog Docker for SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.5x Developer Edition. Note: The port information is specified when you start the Read more…
Not one of my most useful blogs, more like a reference in my library on how to update the Azure command (and a rant at the end). Documentation and the latest version available can be found at the Azure cli installation documentation. Check current installed version az –version In my Read more…
Some time ago I wanted to add a new mount point for Docker files in Proxmox. As Proxmox uses logical volumes to manage its storage, I had to find out how to assign a 200 GB part out of the data volume. Proxmox does this automatically when a new VM Read more…
From time to time I have to create a PKI with a root and intermediate CA. As I do not want to have to search for the correct commands, I created a setup for OpenSSL and a Jupyter notebook that guides me through the steps. This allows me to go Read more…
In this blog I’ll show how to bring a legacy solution to the cloud. As an example, I’ll use a user management solution based on a 3-tier application: backend, middleware, frontend. Through a series of blogs, I will bring this solution from a legacy, on premise setup to the cloud. Read more…
This is the introduction blog on how to activate SAML 2.0 based logon on SAP NetWeaver ABAP systems. The example configuration shown here is using SAP Gateway. It is the same procedure for any SAP NetWeaver ABAP system that allows SAML 2.0 logons. The system used while writing the blog Read more…
As SAML 2.0 depends on trust, it is necessary to establish this trust by exchanging the metadata of the IdP and SP. When the SAML 2.0 client for Gateway (NPL001) was created, the metadata of the Gateway SP was important to Keycloak. In this step, the metadata of the IdP Read more…
In this step a new SAML 2.0 client is created in Keycloak by importing the Gateway SP metadata. After activating and configuring SAML 2.0 in Gateway, a Service Provider (SP) was created. A metadata file for that SP is available at the saml2 Web Dynpro ABAP application. This metadata file Read more…