SAPRouter and Business Objects

Introduction

I've already explained how to install and configure SAP Router in your environment here. Also I've explained how to add your HANA system to SAPRouter here. In this post, I'll explain how to add your BOBJ environment to SAPRouter. This may look exactly the same as my previous post with lots of repetitions. But please bear with me, because there are some important distinctions.

Get the Details

1) Hostname or IP address of your BOBJ system E.g. 10.124.11.22

2) HTTP Port: It would normally be 8080

Set up routetab on SAP Router

1) Assuming you're using SNC, add the following to your routetab file (make sure it is above the deny line):

# SNC connection to local system for BOBJ Support

# BOBJ Server: 10.124.11.22

# HTTP Port: 8080

KP "p:CN=sapserv2, OU=SAProuter, O=SAP, C=DE" 10.124.11.22 8080

2) Restart your SAP router service

Client Machine Setup

It is recommended to have a separate workstation which would establish the initial handshake between your SAP Router with SAP's SAP Router. Here are the steps:

1) Download "SAP Service Connector" and "SAP GUI" from service market place.

2) Install both the products.

Edit System at SAP support portal

1) Go to https://service.sap.com/sap/bc/bsp/spn/system_search/index.htm

2) Search for your system (the system you created to maintain license key etc. for your BOBJ server) and click on it.

3) Under "System" tab, you should see "SAP-Router" section. Click on "Edit System" at the bottom, and choose the hostname from the drop down (E.g. SAPROUTER01). Provide the service port (E.g. 3299).

4) Go to "Application Server" tab and click on "Create Server". 

5) Provide Hostname, IP Address, OS and OS Version etc. as relevant. You may provide 01 as the instance number if you've a one node environment. If you've multiple nodes, provide instance numbers accordingly.

6) Click on "Add Server"

7) If you've a multinode environment, then repeat steps 4 through 6 and continue to add servers until you've all the nodes accounted for. 

8) Click on "Save System"

9) Go to "System" tab

10) Click on "Maintain Service Connection" button under SAP-Router section. 

NOTE: Alternatively you may go to https://support.sap.com/remote-support/remote-connections.html, click on "Maintain Connections" and select your system.

11) On the "Service Connection" window, under "Set up Connection types" section, click on "HTTP Connect - URLAccess". 

12) Verify the details and click "Save". 

13) A new connection would appear under "Open/Close Connections". 

14) Expand the URLs section and add the URL to Tomcat for all nodes.

Service Type: HTTP Connect - URLAccess

Description: Access to Tomcat

URL: http://servername:8080/

15) Click on the connection "HTTP Connect - URLAccess" under "Open/Close Connections".

16) Provide how long you want to allow the connection to remain open, provide your contact details and finally the route string to your SAP Router. E.g.

/H/10.124.1.100/S/3299

NOTE: If you've opened a successful connection to any system previously, a lot of these details will not be asked (Route String, Start Service Connector etc.). You'll simply be asked to "Open Connection". Steps 17 through 21 won't be there for such scenarios.

17) Click on "Start Service Connector" button. It would download a file called "stfk.oez". The browser screen would change and would ask the following question:

Was the opening network connection successful? 

with a "Yes" and a "No" button. DO NOT click on anything yet.

18) Copy the file to the client workstation where "SAP Service Connector" is installed. Double click to open.

19) A dialog box would open and say "'SAP Connector 2.0' application was started". Click the "OK" button on the dialog box.

20) Another dialog box would open and say "The service connection has been opened successfully.". Click the "OK" button on the dialog box.

21) Go back to the portal and click on "Yes" to the following question:

Was the opening network connection successful? 

22) From now onward, you may click on the connection under "Open/Close Connections" and set a time period to open connection for the specified period.

Revisions

I expect to update this post quite often. Here is the revision log:

12/09/2014: Initial Version