{"id":660,"date":"2019-03-23T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2019-03-23T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:31:30","slug":"sap-igs-failing-with-rfc-external-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/sap-igs-failing-with-rfc-external-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP &#8211; IGS failing with RFC External Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have faced issue where IGS stopped working after BW system restart. As our BW system is connected to Portal &#038; it&#8217;s throwing error while generating reports.<\/p>\n<p>We have checked that IGS RFC is working fine in SM59 &#8211; TCP\/IP but when we run the report in SA38 &#8211; GRAPHICS_IGS_ADMIN. it&#8217;s failing with error <strong>&#8220;RFC_EXTERNAL_FAILURE&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By going through the multiple log files, we identify that it&#8217;s failing as IGS is not able to bind the DEFAULT Port.<\/p>\n<p>Port 4NN01 and 4NN02 where NN is the instance number<\/p>\n<p>Due to this it&#8217;s not connecting to IGS server. We followed SAP note &#8211; 2719952 to resolve the issue. <\/p>\n<p>We change the IGS default port to customize &#038; restart the system.<\/p>\n<p>Example as below &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>igs\/listener\/http = 40085<br \/>\nigs\/mux\/port = 40005<br \/>\nigs\/pw\/1 = 40006,7<br \/>\nigs\/pw\/2 = 40008,9<\/p>\n<p>By changing above now IGS is listening to different Port &#038; RFC &#038; Reports are working fine.<br \/>\nHope this Helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have faced issue where IGS stopped working after BW system restart. As our BW system is connected to Portal &#038; it&#8217;s throwing error while generating reports. We have checked that IGS RFC is working fine in SM59 &#8211; TCP\/IP but when we run the report in SA38 &#8211; GRAPHICS_IGS_ADMIN. it&#8217;s failing with error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[557,558,552,556,554,555,187,553],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-updates","tag-4nn01","tag-4nn02","tag-igs","tag-igs-rfc","tag-internet-graphics-server","tag-rfc_external_failure","tag-sap","tag-sap-note-2719952"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adilfahim.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}