Protect4S - VM User Guide
  • Protect4S - VM User Guide
  • Introduction
    • Quick setup
    • Support
    • Protect4S VM place in SAP system landscape
  • Pre-conditions and installation
    • Supported operating system and database types
    • Software version requirements
    • Recommendations
    • Heterogeneous database connections
  • Protect4S VM Software Installation
    • Add-On Installation, import support packages and upgrade
    • Installation post-processing
  • Create Protect4S VM users and roles
    • Distribution of satellite roles
    • satellite system ABAP RFC user using wizard
    • satellite system ABAP RFC user MANUAL SETUP
    • satellite system JAVA user
    • satellite system database user
    • satellite system operating system user
    • Operating system user other than <sid>adm
    • Satellite system BusinessObjects user
  • Check and set Application settings
  • Protect4S VM Menu
  • Execute the Quick setup
    • Company
    • Systems
      • Creating an ABAP system
      • Creating a JAVA system
      • Creating a BusinessObjects BI system
      • Creating a HANA standalone system
      • Creating a SAP Web Dispatcher system
      • Creating a SAProuter system
      • Creating a SAP Cloud Connector system
      • SAPControl security settings
  • Create a project
    • New project
    • New Scan
  • Check Template
  • Contact persons and Scan subscription
    • Contact persons
    • Scan subscriptions
  • Reports
    • Scan result
    • Scan results information
    • System tab
    • Company tab
    • Scan statistics tab
    • Check overview
    • Risk history
    • Scan statistics
    • Scan export
    • Mitigation report
    • Scan comparison
    • Management overview
    • Connection map
  • Mitigation of Vulnerabilities
    • Mitigation menu
  • Check exemptions
  • SIEM Interface
  • Integration
    • Incident Management
  • Information and support
    • Welcome menu
    • Product information
    • Check information
    • Change log
    • User Guide
    • Report a software defect
    • Feature request
  • Deinstallation
  • Appendix A: Troubleshooting Satellite System connection issues
    • SAPControl connections
    • Database connection
    • JAVA connection
    • HTTPS certificate errors
  • Appendix B: Installation database libraries
    • IBM DB2
    • MSSQL
    • MaxDB
    • Oracle
    • SAP Sybase
    • SAP HANA
  • Appendix C: satellite system Communication Ports
  • Appendix D: Protect4S VM SICF Services
  • Appendix E: using a server group
  • Appendix F System context
  • Appendix G DNS resolving
  • Appendix H Dump in Scan subsciptions
  • Appendix I HTTPURLLOC table
  • Appendix J - Risk Matrix
  • Appendix K - Short dump function module "PFL_GET_SINGLE_PARAMETER" not found
  • FAQs
    • General
    • Installation
    • Configuration
    • Projects and scans
  • Contact us
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Software component requirements
  • Other requirements
  • Satellite systems:

Was this helpful?

  1. Pre-conditions and installation

Software version requirements

PreviousSupported operating system and database typesNextRecommendations

Last updated 2 years ago

Was this helpful?

Software component requirements

You can install Protect4S VM on any SAP ABAP Platform or NetWeaver ABAP system that contains one of the following components with the indicated minimum level of support packs:

  • 7.40 with Support Package Stack 17

  • 7.50 with Support Package Stack 14

  • 7.51 with Support Package Stack 8

  • 7.52 with Support Package Stack 4

  • 7.53 or higher.

Protect4S VM use the so called re-use components, therefore one of the following components need to be present in the system where Protect4S VM runs (These components are typically present in the SAP Solution Manager, S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite solutions like ECC, CRM, SRM, etc):

  • SAP_BS_FND

  • S4CORE

  • S4FND

The SAP_UI component needs to be 7.53 Patchlevel 0005 or higher.

The Add-On Installation tool (SPAM/SAINT) version needs to be level 0073 as a minimum.

Additionally, you must apply the following notes (when applicable for your SAP system version. If SNOTE says a note is not applicable then you can skip that note):

Other requirements

Network communication between the Protect4S system and satellite systems must be possible. All supported SAP system types running on-premise, in IAAS-based cloud environments and SAP systems in the PCE (ABAP only) can be scanned. Keep in mind below requirements.

  • For the Protect4S system, the SAP parameter abap/shared_objects_size_MB should have a value of at least 300 MB.

  • Always apply the highest available Protect4S VM support package.

  • Operate Protect4S VM not from client 000

  • If you want to make use of the Fiori Launchpad then make sure to have this activated beforehand

Satellite systems:

  • SAP Web Application Server 6.40 on kernel 6.40 patch level 414 or higher.

  • SAP Web Application Server 7.0 and higher.

  • SAP Business Objects 4.3 and higher.

  • ST-PI and ST/A-PI add-ons need to be installed and patched to a recent (less than one year old) version.

  • SAP Cloud Connector 2.14 and higher.

  • Being one of the supported SAP system types:

    • SAP S/4HANA

    • SAP ABAP Stack

    • SAP JAVA Stack

    • SAP Dual Stack

    • SAP HANA standalone

    • SAP Web Dispatcher

    • SAP BusinessObjects BI

    • SAProuter

    • SAP Cloud Connector

The Protect4S system must be able to resolve the IP-addresses of the satellite systems to host names. The specific ports used by Protect4S VM can be found in .

3072448 - /BOFU/CHANGE_DOC_TAB: Change indicator column is not read only
2752858 - Gateway servive generation leads to dumps in GBI
2346208 - FBI list feeder class GET_DATA - selected line or lead index check
Appendix C