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SAProuter as systemd service
Created on:18. May 2023
Setting up SAProuter as a systemd service The SAProuter is a small piece of software provided by SAP to establish a remote connection between a customer’s network and SAP. With SAProuter you can: SAProuter can be used with both classic SAP products and analytics solutions. A list of SAP Business Analytics products that benefit from […]
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- Linux,
- SAP,
- Security
Shell Scripts & oneLiner for SAP Server
Created on:25. September 2022
Scripts & oneLiner When you are on the command line in Linux, you often have to implement “special tasks” from time to time. Fortunately, this can be done in many ways with the possibilities of a shell in Linux. I definitely prefer Bash, even though the user of the SAP application usually gets a csh […]
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- Linux
SAP Single Sign-On (SSO) for Web Services – free with certificates
Created on:9. April 2022
SAP Single Sign-On (SSO) free of charge for web applications In my article SAP Single Sign-On (SSO) – free of charge I described how to configure Single Sign-On for SAP ABAP. In this article I would like to describe how to configure Sigle Sign-On in an ABAP system for web applications, such as the webgui. […]
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- SAP,
- Security
Create report with QuickViewer (SQVI) or Query Designer (SQ01)
Created on:2. January 2021
Create a report with the QuickViewer (SQVI) Often you just want to create a query because you can’t get the information from a standard SAP report. This can then be created relatively easily with the QuickViewer (SQVI) or the Query Designer (SQ01). In the specific case, I want to create a query about users and […]
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- SAP
SAP and HTTP/2
Created on:17. October 2020
SAP and HTTP/2 The HTTP protocol is one of the most widely used protocols on the Internet. However, HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 have some disadvantages for modern applications – especially with regard to performance in wide-area networks. To improve these problems, RFC 7540 introduced HTTP/2 as a successor. HTTP/2 is not a fundamental rebuild of the […]
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- SAP,
- Security
SAP BusinessObjects Server via HTTPS
Created on:11. October 2020
SAP BusinessObjects Server via HTTPS SAP Business Objects is a Java application. In contrast to the underlying web server, this is usually the focus when something needs to be configured. In this article I show how to configure Apache Tomcat web server securely. Configure HTTPS The Tomcat web server is an open source web server […]
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- BusinessObjects,
- SAP,
- Security
How-to sapgenpse
Created on:1. June 2020
How-to sapgenpse If you have to deal with certificates in the SAP environment, and this is always the case sooner or later ;-), you very quickly come into contact, directly or indirectly, with the command line tool sapgenpse. This article describes how and for what purpose you can use sapgenpse. Introduction At SAP, public-key certificates […]
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- SAP,
- Security
SAP Single Sign-On (SSO) – free of charge
Created on:3. April 2020
SAP Single Sign-On (SSO) – free of charge Introduction In an SAP system landscape, sooner or later the desire for a single sign-on logon arises because the number of systems is significantly high due to a two- or three-system landscape. In addition, the use of single sign-on increases security because the use of passwords can […]
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- SAP,
- Security
Configure local mail server for SAP HANA DB
Created on:17. February 2020
Configure local mail server for SAP HANA DB Monitoring a HANA database is part of an administrator’s daily task. However, so that you don’t have to laboriously dig through the individual logs, activating the SAP Alerting Framework and automatically sending mails when threshold values are exceeded is a sensible configuration. Unfortunately, SAP has not provided […]
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- HANA,
- Linux