Configure certificate based authentication in SOAP receiver channel

[former_member60331]

Hi Experts,

I have requirement to connect to 3rd party web-service through PO 7.5. It is synchronous call from SAP to 3rd party web service.

SAP<--->PO<--->3rd Party Web service.

Now the 3rd party web-service owner doesn't want to use basic authentication (username/password) instead they want to use certificate based authentication.

They provided us two certificates - ".pfx" and ".cer"

".pfx" is key protected and cannot be imported in PI, If I am not wrong. So I imported ".cer" certificate in PO in a key view ,but when I am trying to read keystore entry in PO. I am not able to see the entry.

Can you please suggest how to see this entry in PO. Also what type of certificate I need to ask with the web service owners to certificate based authentication?

Regards,
Akash

[Bhargavakrishna · Accepted solution]

Hi Akash,

Ensure the certificate you are importing has the full certificate chain contained inside of it.

Keystore entry is not mandatory. You can also provide the Keystore entry name manually.

I suggest to try this and test the interface.

Please check the below blog for your reference.

https://blogs.sap.com/2013/06/17/adding-certificates-to-pi/

Regards

Bhargava Krishna T

[former_member60331 · Accepted solution]

Hi Bhargava Krishna T,

Thank you for your reply. It helped.

Regards,

Akash

[Harish]

Hi Akash,

In addition to above suggestion, please check the below link

https://answers.sap.com/questions/433808/soap-receiver-configure-certificate-authentication.html

as suggest by Andrzej

-->to authenticate using a certificate, you have to choose your certificate (with the private key) which is stored in the secure storage and configure it in your communication channel.

regards,

Harish