Error: Remote access to the NetWeaver Administrator is forbidden. See SAP Note 1451753 for details.

After you successfully install SAP NW 7.4 Java, first time when you try to launch the NWA page you get a 403 error

Remote access to the NetWeaver Administrator is forbidden. See SAP Note 1451753 for details.

You should apply SAP Note 1451753 to resolve this error. Find the steps below


FIX:

·         Logon to Unix with <sid>adm user

·         Switch to directory /sapmnt/<SID>/global/security/data.

·         Open the file  icm_filter_rules.text using vi editor.

·         Comment all the lines using #

·         Save the file and exit from vi editor.

·         Restart  SAP system.

·         Log on to NWA using http://<hostname>:50000/nwa URL.


Additional Info:

icm_filter_rules.txt file after commented out.