Activating and Deactivating an ICF Service
Use
A service in the HTTP service tree can be active (black font) or inactive (gray font). A client (such as a Web browser) can only call active services. If you call an inactive service, you will see a message that access to this page is locked.
All subnodes of an active service are similarly unavailable and are displayed in blue font. There is an example at the end of this section.
If you do not want a service to be accessed, you can deactivate this service without having to delete it.
Activated ICF services do not pose a security risk insofar that they can be access directly over the Internet via HTTP protocol. You should therefore ensure that access is restricted using appropriate methods, such as ensuring that the ICF service can be accessed only by users with appropriate authorization.
Note that all services delivered by SAP (such as the sap/bc/bsp service for executing BSP applications) are initially inactive. Similarly, each new service that you create is also inactive. Before you work with the ICF, you must first activate the services you require.
Procedure
To activate or deactivate a service, select the service and choose Service/Virt.Host ® Activate or Deactivate. You can also use the context menu (by clicking on the right mouse button).
If you want to reactivate an inactive service, you can either activate the service node that is selected only (pushbutton Yes) or the service node that is selected, including all of its subservices that were maintained in the SICF (pushbutton Yes with tree icon 
).
Example
In this example, the services bc and bc/bsp/sap/public were deactivated. As a result, the services that were explicitly deactivated (gray) and all of their subservices (blue) are unavailable.
If you now reactivate the bc service, you can select whether you want to activate the service itself, or all inactive subservices as well. In the first case, bc/bsp/sap/public would still be inactive (and as a result, bc/bsp/sap/public/bc would also be unavailable); in the second case, all services would be available again.