SAProuter

As mentioned, SAProuter acts as an “application-level gateway,” meaning it controls access to the customer’s SAP systems from the SAP support network and other external systems. Once installed and configured, the SAProuter program will allow network connections based on the configuration entries in the saprouttab table. SAProuter installation and configuration can be broken down into the following four steps:

• SAProuter installation

• SAProuttab configuration (Route Permission table)

• Starting and shutting down a SAProuter

• Important SAProuter options

SAProuter Installation

Create a directory called saprouter under the /usr/sap/ path of the SAP server. Then download the latest version of the SAProuter SAR file (saprouter*.sar) from the SAP Service Marketplace based on the kernel release of your system. It is also possible to copy the older versions of the SAR file from the already installed SAP kernel directory to the newly created saprouter directory. Once this step is complete, extract the saprouter*.sar file in the saprouter directory using the command SAPCAR -xvf saprouter*.sar. This will extract the SAProuter program and the niping program into the saprouter directory.