Gateway Administration 

The SAP Gateway carries out CPI-C services within the SAP environment, which are based on TCP/IP. These services enable SAP Systems and external programs to communicate with one another.

CPI-C services can be used either in the ABAP program or for the external programs via the interfaces.

As RFC (remote function call) is based on CPI-C, all RFC connections also pass through the SAP Gateway.

Technical System Landscape

Each application server instance (of type AS ABAP, AS Java or ABAP+Java) contains a gateway to communicate with other SAP instances or external programs (through RFC).

You can find a description of the system landscape in Architecture of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server.

Tasks on Demand

The table below lists the most important administration tasks.

Task	More Information
Start and stop the standalone gateway (the integrated gateway is started automatically)	Starting and Stopping the SAP Gateway
Define configuration settings	Configuring the SAP Gateway
Change profile parameter settings of the gateway	Parameterization of the SAP Gateway
Configure gateway for secure operation (control and regulate external programs)	Security Settings in SAP Gateway
Set up communication with external systems and programs: Create and maintain side information tables	Side Information Tables
Troubleshooting: Solve problems and errors in the gateway environment	Error Analysis

Tasks to Execute Regularly

The following tasks must be done periodically:

Task	More Information
Monitor gateway from the SAP system (transaction SMGW)	Using SAP Gateway Monitor in SAP System
Monitor gateway from the command line	Using the SAP Gateway Monitor Outside the SAP System

 

More Information

SAP Gateway