SAP Commissions on Hyperscaler – 🛠️Setup your own sFTP Key as Self Service

Dear All,

As you may be aware, in the past & current today for HANA and Oracle tenants you had to raise a support ticket in order to set your FTP Public keys. However, with the new SAP Commissions Architecture on Hypersclaer, you can configure on your own without the requirement for a ticket or the sharing of your public key.

In this blog, I will explain how you can configure the key on your own with simple steps and it takes just within 2-5mins.

Let’s get started

To generate your public/private key pair for SFTP, please follow the steps below:

1. Install the PuTTY Key Generator, navigate to the PuTTYgen directory, and launch it. The default directory path is C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\puttygen.exe.Note: If you have an existing public/private key pair in PPK format, skip to Step 4.
   
2. Create a new public/private key pair by clicking the Generate button:
3. Move your mouse over the blank area to create some randomness that can be used to generate the keys:
4. With the PuTTY Key Generator open, click the Conversions menu, and select Import key:
5. The Load private key screen will appear. Select the .PPK formatted key file and click Open. Here is an example:
6. Click the Conversions menu, and select Export OpenSSH key. Save that as your private .PEM key file in a location you can easily find:Note: A PuTTYgen Warning prompt will appear, asking if you want to save the key without a passphrase to protect it. Click Yes. If you open the content of that key file as a text document, its header and footer should appear as the following:
   —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–
   [key content here]
   —–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—–

Login to SAP Commissions — Go to Commissions Data Loader

Go to Configuration – File Transfer Settings

Upload your public Key which you generated

Open your WinSCP, and fill all the relevant details for you to get login

hostname : <GCP tenant domain name>
port : 9092
username : <find it in CDL File Transfer Settings>
Key - Go to Advanced - Key Configuration - Provide your Private Key path

Now, you could able to see folders after your login