Activating and Deactivating ICF Services

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.

Note Note

Activated ICF services do not pose a security risk insofar that they can be access directly over the Internet via HTTP protocol. You must 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.

End of the note.

Caution Caution

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.

End of the caution.

Procedure

To activate or deactivate a service, select the service and choose Service/Virt.Host Activate or Deactivate (or right-click: Activate/Deactivate Service).
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

Figure: Active and Inactive Services

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Explanation

In this example, the services sap/bc and sap/bc/bsp/sap/public have been deactivated. As a result, the services that were explicitly deactivated (gray) and all of their subservices (blue) are unavailable.

If you now reactivate the sap/bc service, you can select whether you want to activate the service itself, or all inactive subservices as well. In the first case, sap/bc/bsp/sap/public would still be inactive (and as a result, sap/bc/bsp/sap/public/bc would also be unavailable); in the second case, all services would be available again.