LDAP with SSL for SAP app running on NWCE 7.1

[former_member188433]

Hi Experts - We installed NWCE 7.11 SP7. Afterwards we deployed SAP Sourcing 7.0 on the NWCE instance. We want to use an LDAP for the external Sourcing users. This LDAP is not the UME for the NWCE instance. We were able to configure the Sourcing app to access the LDAP and add users, but there was a problem with password update so we are now trying to configure the LDAP connection to use SSL. But we are seeing connection issues after converting the LDAP connection to SSL. The NWCE has sapcryptolib and unlimited strength policy files.

- I changed the Sourcing application to use the LDAP SSL port.

- I imported the LDAP server's SSL cert and the CA cert into NWCE > NWA > Key Storage service.

- I restarted the NWCE.

After all of these steps, the sourcing application can no longer connect to the LDAP.

I verified that I can access the LDAP via SSL using the same server/CA certs via a third-party LDAP tool on my workstation.

Are there any steps I am missing in NWCE configuration? Any help would be appreciated. Best Regards - Jeff

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can you check the server logs and see what is the error in there ?

Horia

[former_member188433 · Accepted solution]

Hi Horia - Our problem was solved once we found out where the SSL certificates needed to be stored. As it turns out, they must be stored in the default keystore (cacerts) of the JVM that is used by the NWCE. For us this was rather unusual, since we normally use the Netweaver NWA utilities. Apparently storing the certs using the NWA > Keystore Utility did not work.

Since this is our first NWCE project we do not know if htis is typical for the CE environment or not.

Best Regards - Jeff