Assume that you use SAP WebIDE for developing an application and that you have to consume an OData service from an on-premise NetWeaver ABAP system. In SCP, the destination is configured, and SAP Cloud Connector is working. For principal propagation, X.509 is used. Problem When you select the OData service Read more…
ICM in NetWeaver ABAP is not reading the HTTP header and accepting the transmitted X.509 certificate simply like that. I’ll show here a picture that shows what an intermediate server is sending to NetWeaver. You can see that two certificates are transmitted to SAP: the user X.509 as well as Read more…
In many cases a proxy is placed between the end user and the SAP backend, like a Web Dispatcher. User –> Proxy (intermediate) –> SAP The proxy / intermediate receives the user certificate, extracts and adds it to HTTP header SSL_CLIENT_CERT. When a connection to the SAP backend is opened, 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. SAPGui Open SAPGui and create a new connection. Give a Read more…
Below is a list of links to blogs I wrote and I hope can help you when you install your own SAP NetWeaver ABAP system. The documentation is the by-product while I installed my demo/test system. Install an SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.4 system Install an SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.5 system Read more…
To be able to benefit from SAP WebGui, you have to execute some initial configuration steps. These steps ensure that the services and the ICF nodes are correctly configured and mime files like JS, CSS, images are available and accessible by WebGui. More information about the necessary ICF configuration steps Read more…
SAPGui is just one way to access an SAP system. A more and more common way to interact and work with SAP is through a browser. As with all web sites, a web server must handle the browser requests. For SAP NetWeaver ABAP, the web server is ICM. ICM is Read more…
For the NetWeaver ABAP system to be able to accept the certificate based logon from Web Dispatcher, it must be configured to accept the certificate of the WD system as a client certificate. SAP Help Transaction: RZ10 Instance profile It is necessary to maintain 2 profile parameters: icm/HTTPS/trust_client_with_issuer icm/HTTPS/trust_client_with_subject These Read more…
To run SAP Portal on the standard web ports 80 and 443 you should use Web Dispatcher. In that case, WD runs on the privileged ports and SAP Portal / NetWeaver Java / ICM continue to run on their usual 5nnXX ports. Changing the ports directly on ICM of NetWeaver Read more…