Content Server on Virtual Machine with VPN

[Former Member]

Hello everybody.

I want to create a test-environment with a Content Server. Regarding to the needed Operating System I decided to use VMware Workstation to virtualize the OS and the Content Server.

Host-OS: Windows XP Professional

Host-IP: 192.17.1.151, Port 1090, not used

Guest: Windows 2000 Server

Guest-IP: 192.168.159.128, Port 1090

Goal: The goal is to log in into the company-network, and connect to the local, virtual Content Server from the central SAP-System.

Network:

With VMware it is possible to use different types of network connections. I decided for NAT. With this it is used to share to host´s IP-Adress.

Furthermore it is possible to create a Port Forwarding so that requests defined ports of the Host are forwarded to the guest/VM. For this I created the following port forwarding in VMware:

1090 = 192.168.159.128:1090

Tests:

Now, I tried if it is possible to reach the port.

1. Command on VM: telnet 192.168.159.128 1090 => Port available

2. Command on Host: telnet 192.168.159.128 1090 => Port not available (That´s okay)

3. Command on Hostt: telnet 192.17.1.151 1090 => Port available

Result:

When I am using CSADMIN to connect to IP 192.17.1.151 port 1090 there is the following error message: "Error in HTTP Access: IF_HTTP_CLIENT->RECEIVE 1 ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED"

Test 2:

I created port forwardings for the following ports: 80, 8000, 8080, 1095, 3200, 3300. Still the same error message.

Test 3:

I tried to use the Content Server directly in the Network without VPN. The Content Server works correctly, but this is not an alternative to the VPN-Connection.

Question:

From VMware-Side everything looks okay. I already discussed this with different specialist from a VMware Forum. But now I need to know, why it is not possible to connect to the Conntent Server. Port is available but it is not possible to connect to the Content Server. Have I forgotten something?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Karl,

Please also check this link, it may help you.

Thank you,

Shyam

[Former Member]

Thanks for your ideas. I will try this at the weekend and give a feedback to you. Thanks.

[JPReyes]

Error in HTTP Access: IF_HTTP_CLIENT->RECEIVE 1 ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED

Usually this error shows up when you icm paremeters have not been set, check that icm/server_port_0 is set with value PROT=HTTP,PORT=80

Read,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/56/2e453cabf4ef6fe10000000a114084/content.htm

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

Strange problem, but I doubt that it has anything to do with ContentServer itself.

The ContentServer is running under IIS.

Make sure that Web site have the ip address set to "(All Unassigned)".

Also make sure that the NAT also translates in both directions.

If you call 192.17.1.151 it should also look like the answer is from that ip.