SAP Remote Support Guideline
SAP Remote Support Guideline
SAP Remote Support Guideline
Symptom
SAP Remote Support require a remote connection to the customer system.
In order to keep the level of information security and data protection high, customers can contribute by considering the following
instructions that help to ensure a safe and compliant remote support session.
Solution
SAP´s high remote support security standards help protect the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer data and this note is
intended to list all measures set by SAP to ensure a secure and compliant remote support to the customer system, enabling customers to
be audit- compliant, with regards to security & data protection regulations.
Create incidents only for the affected system by specifying the correct customer number, Installation no. and System-ID.
(Reason: Enables SAP Support to maintain log-on credentials in the Secure Area of the incident, ensuring a high level of password
security.)
Please provide a reproducible test case if possible only on a test or development system. Please only open a production system if
the reproduction is only possible on the production system.
Also mention the system number or system name, if your system landscape contains different systems having the same System-
ID.
Please be aware that if you or the analysis require to connect to a system which is under another installation number the SLAs for
our actions will be always based on the contract which is assigned to the installation used for incident creation.
a) Log-on data (User-ID & Password) to be used must be exactly specified in the Customer Remote Logon Depot of the
incident:
Store the user-ID and password in the Customer Remote Logon Depot for the incident. If a dedicated user should be used for the
incident please specify the user ID in the incident.
If a user-ID is already in use by another person, please provide SAP another user-ID upon reques.
If the usage of Firefighter is requested and you want a specific Firefighter-ID to be used, please specify this ID in the incident
accordingly.
Best Practice is to create unique User IDs and Passwords for each connection, using a combination of upper and lower case
characters, numbers and special characters, which make no reference to an individual person or name.
Example User-ID: SAPUser$ and not JohnSmith
If changes (customizing, done when reproducing the issue) are required on your systems please always specify the exact user-id
in the incident.
For changes on production or non – production systems (reproducing issue, customizing changes) please provide your written
approval for it. This can also be done proactively.
Template: “I herewith approve SAP to do the following actions on system <System-ID, Client, User-Id> and <specify what changes
are requested or allowed as referred to in the incident, the attachment and described in the steps to recreate>”
LOP (see note 797124 (/sap/support/notes/797124)) enables SAP to open service connections to your systems independently but
in a controlled way, avoiding further inquiries to you on that topic.
Where a connection failure occurs during a LOP connection, please expect a communication from SAP in order to resolve the
problem and allow a connection to be established.
7. How to deal with personally identifiable information (PII) during remote logon:
During the remote access / logon process it can happen that a Customer requests SAP Support to provide the full name / UserID
etc. of an SAP Support Engineer.
Due to GDPR and SAP’s mandate is to protect personal data of its customers as well as its employees, SAP Support Engineers are
not obliged to provide full names or related PII based on
SAP´s Data Protection and Security guidelines. Instead of full names, generic logon data will be submitted such as:
First Name: SAP
Last Name: Support
... or any other personally ‘anonymized’ logon data.
If the customer asks for a Phone Number or Email address, the following will be provided by SAP Support:
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