Is it possible to secure the SAP Telnet Administration port (50008)?

[Former Member]

Is it possible to secure the SAP Telnet Administration port, which is usually port 50008?

I would like a SSH type connection, so that data cannot be intercepted/read and non-authorised connection attempts cannot be made.

Note that the SAP system is on a Windows environment.

[Sriram2009 · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul

Kindly  go thru the SAP Note

1844869

Disabling the Telent service/port for the SAP Netweaver AS Java system

Thanks & Regards

Sriram

[bxiv]

You could enable the Windows firewall to only allow telnet from authorized management subnets/IPs.  I recommend from other SAP systems, as they typically sit in the same subnet in a data center and hard to sniff unless your network team is performing some tasks to track down an issue.