Symptom
While logged as SIDadm, on Windows OS, sapcontrol commands for protected web methods fail with 401 Unauthorized response. This happens if Windows named pipes protocol is not explicitly set to be used in sapcontrol commands (-prot PIPE).
The command result will be like below example:
sapcontrol -nr <instance number> -function Start
Start
FAIL: HTTP Error, HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
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Environment
SAP NetWeaver running on Windows OS
Product
Keywords
FAIL: HTTP Error, HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized, -prot PIPE, authentication, Windows named pipes, SIDadm, protected web methods, SAP NetWeaver running on Windows OS. , KBA , BC-CST-STS , Startup Service , Problem
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