Portal Not Available 

The call of a function module with the portal as RFC destination returns a communication failure. This means the RFC connection between BW and EP is not working. The report RSPOR_SETUP checks the proper functioning of the connection after successfully executing step 1 and step 2.

For a more detailed check if the portal itself is available via RFC you can go to transaction SE37, call the function module RSWR_RFC_SERVICE_TEST and supply the RFC destination (from section Report RSPOR_SETUP) as RFC target system. You can supply any value for parameter I_STRING. The parameter BIAUTHEN can remain empty for the call (This is also the case for all following function modules used to test).

By executing the function module, a call to the J2EE Engine is made. The J2EE Engine RFC service hands over the call to the portal. In the portal, there are several function module implementations which register themselves with the portal (issues in this area are described in more detail in the next section). One of these function modules, RSWR_RFC_SERVICE_TEST just returns the string supplied in I_STRING and adds some additional information to the response, for example the user name under which the call was made. When you start the function module stand-alone, no authentication information is added and so bw_service should be the user name shown, which is the default service user for an unauthenticated call.

If there is an error, it might be the case that the J2EE Engine itself is not available. You can check this by executing the URL for the portal access via a browser. If you get a Page not found or Dispatcher running, but no server connected error, the J2EE Engine is down. It might also be that the J2EE Engine is up and the portal is not running on it. In this case, you will get Application stopped! - Details: You have requested an application that is currently stopped. In all those cases, it is either a J2EE Engine or portal issue and you should address this to the specific support specialists of these groups.