403-Forbidden exception for Enterprise Service

[Former Member]

Hi,

A week back, through SOA Manager I had configured a enterprise service. Everything was looking good. The service was active and I could consume the service (through a SOAP Client)

Just yesterday, when I tried accessing the service again, I am getting a 403-Forbidden exception. I check the service in SICF (/default_host/sap/bc/srt/xip/sap/...) and its active. I am not sure what changed in the last 2 days. Any tips will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

Keerti

[Former Member]

Hi Keerti,

This error might be due to not having the proper user roles assigned to the user being used for posting.Please check if

the service user have the role SAP_XI_APPL_SERV_USER assigned to it : SU01 -{enter user}->check roles tab-> add the role if not present.

Also some times it can be a case that the password of the existing user is changed, so make sure you are using correct one.

check this[603624|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=0000603624&nlang=E] also-> check if all the relevant services are active(sap/bc/srt*) , some times i noticed that the root node will be in active state but some of the child note may be inactive.

refer http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/EN/46/d28dfa34bb12bee10000000a1553f7/content.htm

if you are in DEV environment you can try using the report RSICF_SERVICE_ACTIVATION .

Best Regards

Srinivas

[Former Member]

Thanks Srinivas, You have directed me to the right blogs...

However I found my solution in a rather unusual place. My Network team had disabled the port to the server as a side-effect to something else that they were doing and hence the ports were disabled. A good learning - check the ports!

Regards,

Keerti