How to link an SAP installation to an existing SAProuter By Irshad Rather

How to link an SAP installation

to an existing SAProuter

Environment

• SAProuter
• Any SAP installation
• relational database

Resolution

To configure SAProuter to allow traffic to a new server, follow the 3 steps below:

A. Ensure the system/server information is available in the SAP Support Portal

B. Associate SAProuter with a system in the SAP Support Portal

C. Configure the SAProuter access list, the SAPROUTTAB file

A. Ensure the system/server information is available in the SAP Support Portal

1. Open a browser and navigate to SAP Support Portal (support.sap.com)

2. Login or Register (if it's the first time)

3. Select Edit System

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4. Select View and Edit your System Data from the left hand side or the main page.

The system must have the server details registered under either the DB Server tab or the Other
Servers/Hosts tab.

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If the server are not listed in either of the server tabs then they need to be added.

Note: to edit the systems your s-user needs the authorization "Maintain System Data". If you don't have this
authorization, your Super-Administrator can assign it to you. See KB 1271517 to find out who is the Super -
Administrator and KB 1511008 to know how they can assign the needed authorization.

5. To add a server, click the Edit System button.

6. Once in edit mode, click the Create Server button.

7. Enter the details of the server to be connected to SAP. The Host Name field is a free text field for a
descriptive text to distinguish between different servers. The fully qualified host name or the IP address are
used to uniquely identify the server. There is no need to enter any information in the Additional SAP-Router
section if only one SAProuter is installed.

8. Click the Add Server button to add the server.

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9. Click the Save System button to save the system data modified.

B. Associate SAProuter with a system in the SAP Support Portal

1. Open a browser and navigate to SAP Support Portal (support.sap.com) and Login

2. Select Open a Connection

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3. Click on the button Maintain Connection

4. Either click on the system in the list of recently used systems or use the search to find the needed system.

5. Once the system information is displayed, click the Systemdata button.

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6. In the new page click Edit System button

7. Once in edit mode again, choose the SAProuter from the Host name drop down menu (it is most common
to only have one SAProuter and so only one option in the drop down list).

8. Also enter the Service-Port to be used for SAProuter, the default port number is 3299.

The SAProuter section will display the the IP address of the machine where SAProuter is installed.

9. Click Save system then OK in the pop up.

C. Configure the SAProuter access list, the SAPROUTTAB file

On the machine where SAProuter is installed, there will be a file called SAPROUTTAB that contains the
access information for SAProuter. SAProuter does not run without this file.

1. Open the file with a text editor, e.g. notepad.

2. Add a line to allow traffic from the SAProuter at SAP to the new server. If help is needed with this step,
create a message on component XX-SER-NET-HTL.

The basic structure of the access list is:

P sourceIP targetIP port# (password)

where

P = permit, as opposed to D for deny

sourceIP = the IP-of-SAProuter-at-SAP (this information should already exist from the first configuration of
the SAProuter, if not, simply create a message on component XX-SER-NET to get the IP of the SAProuter at
SAP )

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targetIP = IP-of-customer’s-db-or-server-to-be-connected-to so this is the same IP as entered in step 1

above.

port# = port-for-targetIP, to permit TCP traffic on a specific port number.

Note: either of the IP addresses can be replaced with a * to allow TCP traffic to/from any server but this is
less secure.

3. Save the file.

4. Restart SAProuter.

If there are any firewalls in place on the network to block traffic please open the ports in the firewall as well as
configure the SAProuter access list.

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