Configuring Communication with Basic Authentication on Systems Running SAP Basis 7.4

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Communication is configured using the SOA Manager in SAP.

To configure communication using basic authentication on a system running SAP Basis 7.4:

  1. Start the SOA Manager on the SAP system on which you want to configure the web service using the transaction code SOAMANAGER.
  2. On the SOA Management page, on the Service Administration tab, click Web Service Configuration.
  3. On the Web Service Configuration page, under Search Criteria, specify the following search parameters:
    • Object Type is All
    • Consumer Proxy contains *SAPSERVICE*.
  4. Click Search.
    The search returns the web service SAPServiceSoap.
  5. In the Internal Name column, click the hyperlinked name for the SAP web service.
  6. On the next page, on the Configurations tab, click Create and choose Manual Configuration.
  7. In the Logical Port Name step, enter the Logical Port Name and an appropriate description.
  8. Select the Logical Port is Default check box.
  9. On the Consumer Security step, select User ID / Password.
    Note: If the user name and password change on the inventory beacon, you need to make the same changes in the SOA Manager.
  10. In the User ID/Password section, provide the user name and password that are used on the inventory beacon.
  11. On the Messaging or SOAP Protocol step, select Suppress ID Transfer from the Message ID Protocol drop-down list. Accept the default values for all other options for this step.
  12. On the Transport Settings or HTTP Settings tab, provide the following information:
    • URL Access Path: Enter the URL access path /SAPService/SAPService.asmx.
    • Computer Name of Access URL: Enter the IP address of the relevant inventory beacon server.
    • Port Number of Access URL: Enter 80 which is the port number required for basic authentication.
    • URL Protocol Information: Select HTTP.
    • Accept the default values for all other options on this tab.
  13. On the Operation Specific or Operation Settings step, you need to manually add the SOAP action for every web-service operation.
    1. Select the Use non-default value for SOAP Action check box to ensure that the SOAP action is active for the configuration, and to enable the SOAP Action field.
    2. Add the web-service operations in the grid on the left. For each operation, specify the appropriate SOAP action in the SOAP Action field. The table SOAP Actions for the Web-Service Operation lists the operations and corresponding SOAP action. If you copy the SOAP actions from the table to paste each action into the SOAP Action field, ensure that you copy the entire line.
  14. Click Save.

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