Symptom
- In scenarios, where an SAP ABAP system is acting as the client of a connection, for example:
The destination system is a PI system and in the SXI Monitor (transaction SXI_MONITOR) of the sender system, the following error message appears:
HTTP Error :Receiving message
"ClIENT_RECEIVE_FAILED Error while receiving by HTTP (error code: 411, error text : Connect to <destination hostname>:<port nr> failed: NIECONN_REFUSED (-10)"<SAP:Category>XIServer </SAP:Category>
<SAP:Code area="INTERNAL">CLIENT_RECEIVE_FAILED </SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1>411 </SAP:P1>
<SAP:P2>Connect to <destination hostname>:<port nr > failed: NIECONN_REFUSED (-10)</SAP:P2>
<SAP:P3 />>(See attachment HTMLError for details)</SAP:P3>
<SAP:P4 />
<SAP:AdditionalText />
<SAP:Stack>Error while receiving by HTTP (error code: 114 error text: Connect to <destination hostname>:<port nr > failed: NIECONN_REFUSED (-10)">
<SAP:Retry>N </SAP:Retry>
</SAP:Error>
OR
- An SAP Web dispatcher is trying to connect to a back-end system and the following error message appears in the dev_icm or dev_webdisp trace files:
[Thr <nr>] NiIConnect: state of hdl <nr> NI_CONN_WAIT
[Thr <nr>] *** ERROR => NiBufIConnect: non-buffered connect pending after 5000ms (hdl <IP address>:<port nr>) [nibuf.cpp 4524]
[Thr <nr>] NiICloseHandle: called for hdl <nr> while waiting for connection
[Thr <nr>] NiICloseHandle: shutdown and close hdl <nr>/sock <nr>
[Thr <nr>] IcmIConnConnect: Connect to host: <destination hostname>:<port nr>, NIECONN_REFUSED(-10)
[Thr <nr>] *** WARNING => Connect to <destination hostname>:<port nr> failed: NIECONN_REFUSED(-10) {00080aa9} [icxxconn.c 2356]
OR also
- "Connection refused by server (ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_REFUSED)" message in transaction SM21
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Environment
- Operating System independent
- Database independent
- SAP NetWeaver
- SAP Web Application Server for SAP S/4HANA
- ABAP Platform
Product
Keywords
NIECONN_REFUSED, NI_CONN_WAIT, waiting for connection, non-buffered, (10035: WSAEWOULDBLOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable), SXI Monitor, SXI_MONITOR, SAP Web dispatcher, ICM, client host, remote host, TCP handshake, icm/conn_timeout, external partner, port nr, Wireshark, TCP dump, netstat, niping, telnet, connection failed, connect to server o.k, (ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_REFUSED) , KBA , BC-CST-IC , Internet Communication Manager , BC-CST-WDP , Web Dispatcher , BC-NET , Formerly used for network tests , Problem
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