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Thursday, 23 June 2011

How to create an RFC Connection in SAP ?

This article answers the following queries :

  • How to create an RFC connection ?
  • How to test RFC connection ?
  • How to delete an RFC ?



How to create an RFC destination ?




Go to SM59 transaction :



Click on create icon in the above screen, which leads to below screen


Specify RFC Destination name and description and connection Type in the above screen




Please note respective connection type to be selected from dropdown based on the connection required. Usually 3 is for ABAP system. (Pls find screenshot below)




In the below screen, please select load balancing radio button based on your system setup (i.e if there is load balancing configured for your system, specify it as yes otherwise no)

Please provide Target host details like hostname or ipaddress and system number as below:




As shown below, Proceed to Logon & security tab and provide following details :

Select trusted system as no, in case you would like to connect to a system with a user id and password.

 If you don’t want to get authenticated by credentials specify the system as trusted system which won’t prompt to enter user id/pwd credentials in the below screen.

Please provide Language details like EN (for English), Client details, User id and password for the system you would like to create a connection.




Please leave default values in other tabs (i.e MDMP & Unicode, Special options, Administration) and then click on Save to complete the RFC creation.


How to Test RFC connection ?





If it functioning well it should show output similar to below screen :




If this is fine, come back to earlier screen and execute Unicode test by clicking the button. Output similar to below screen, should be displayed if connection is OK






Also you need to perform authorization test to make sure user id / password credentials provided are correct.

Please navigate as below and perform the test :




Navigate to Utilities -> Test -> Authorisation test and click  the same to execute.





If the RFC configuration is fine, screen shot similar above will appear. Otherwise an error will be displayed based on which you need to troubleshoot to fix the issue.


How to delete an RFC ?

Goto SM59 and select the RFC that is to be deleted as shown below :



And click on delete icon




Click yes to confirm deletion, which deletes the RFC.


Click on Connection test tab to check the connection for the RFC



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31 comments:

  1. Unknown27 July 2011 at 00:57

    Thanks
    very usefull

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  2. DurgaPrasad27 July 2011 at 21:08

    Thanks a lot bro. Your feedback really motivates me :-)

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  3. prasad20 October 2011 at 23:57

    too good notes

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  4. DurgaPrasad21 October 2011 at 10:08

    Thanks a lot prasad

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  5. Anonymous8 January 2012 at 22:35

    Hello Durga Prasad,
    There are so many docs at this weblink, Most of them are step-by-step docs.

    howmuch ever experience one has most of ur documents helps.

    Great Work :)
    Keep up the good Work :)
    Regards
    Baba

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  6. DurgaPrasad9 January 2012 at 15:05

    Thanks a lot Baba. Your post is really motivational.

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  7. Anonymous1 June 2012 at 18:51

    thanks a lot dude

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  8. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 20:47

    thanks a lot buddy

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  9. mohamed riyaz27 June 2012 at 11:13

    This is exact real-time scenario. Thank you so much “durgaprasad” for posted it.

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  10. DurgaPrasad28 June 2012 at 19:00

    Thanks a lot Mohamed for your nice comment

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  11. kranthi11 July 2012 at 06:49

    HI prasad..thanx for posting all this links. everything i see is very usefull to brush up my skills. im learning it

    Thanks bro

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  12. Ravindra Athreya20 July 2012 at 18:04

    Hey Bro these links are helping a lot :) and easy to understand for a fresher like me :) Hopin for loads of these.. Keep Posting bro..

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  13. Anonymous9 August 2012 at 12:42

    how to make remote logon work

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    1. DurgaPrasad9 August 2012 at 12:50

      Hi...your question is not clear enough. Could you please elaborate?

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  14. Anonymous16 November 2012 at 19:56

    hi sir, what is the difference between logon group and rfc group?

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    1. Unknown9 November 2016 at 13:29

      Logon group is used to for load balancing of instances and Rfc's are for communication between two SAP systems.

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  15. suri17 January 2013 at 14:56

    hi it is very use full nice article

    thank u.....
    surendra

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  16. Unknown8 March 2013 at 10:47

    Hi Durga Prasad,

    could u let me how to delete old rfc connections present in a ides system in sap.

    Regards,
    Avinash.

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  17. Anonymous1 April 2013 at 21:53

    I've long back accepted you as my 'guru'. Lots of respect for you sir. I'm very new to SAP BASIS and struggling to understand the concepts. Your blog is extremely knowledgeable and is very helpful to new bees like me. Thanks a lot Sir.
    Regards,
    Mohit

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  18. Unknown5 September 2013 at 16:31

    thanks a lot sir.really great work.

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  19. Subho16 January 2014 at 10:02

    Hello Sir,
    kindly let me know how to save copy of RFC table without using scripts.

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  20. Unknown8 February 2014 at 01:11

    U R Grate Sir,

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  21. Unknown8 February 2014 at 01:13

    Very Nice Blog sir, Thanx for the information

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  22. yektek training17 February 2014 at 08:24

    excellent information thanks sir

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  23. yektek.com14 March 2014 at 15:21

    Excellent article thank you Latha Pallavi

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  24. viswa13 April 2015 at 12:04

    Good Post, Very Valuable Information Shared with Us.Keep Sharing This type Of Articles.

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  25. Unknown12 October 2015 at 18:20

    sir durga prasad,yours notes here for basis here is quite good.being a beginner am able to follow it simply.keep up this good work

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  26. Unknown12 October 2015 at 18:23

    very good knowledgable content of sap basis for both beginners and experienced.thumps up for you.(y)

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  27. Unknown11 March 2016 at 18:00

    thanks

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  28. Unknown29 March 2016 at 08:39

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  29. Amanda10 February 2017 at 12:54

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