S/4HANA Ping Service (ws_rfc_ping)

[jasonwilliams]

We are creating a ping service in SCPI and are attempting to connect to S/4 using the HTTP adapter in a custom iFlow. Currently we are getting a 500 error. Cloud Connector seems to be configured correctly with the appropriate virtual mapping.

Can anyone point me to any documentation on the S/4 Connectivity Ping web service? Additionally has anyone connected to this service from SCPI and do you have any examples on how to do it?

The Address/URL we are using (I've replaced our information with tokens)

http://<ourS4hostname>:<ourS4port>/sap/bc/srt/rfc/sap/ws_rfc_ping/<ourS4ClientID>/ping/connectivity?...;

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jason

[jasonwilliams]

Thanks for the response 8d8214c7f9734f45be69f95cc0d5aeee. In the end the developer (not me) found out that the service I mentioned in my post was returning HTML. Not sure where the 500 error was coming from (maybe SCPI failing to process the response rather than S/4). Apparently he has it working now.

[geert-janklaps]

Hi,

I never used ws_rfc_ping myself, but I'm assuming this is a ping service for RFC based connections.

Any reason why you're not using the most commonly used server /sap/public/ping ? (if you receive a HTTP 200 response you know the system was reached)

Best regards,

Geert-Jan Klaps