Security Trace – Sap Security Pages

The Security Trace Tool (transaction ST01) provides a way to trace the complete sequence of security checks for transaction. Since all checks are displayed, this is a much more foolproof way to investigating potential issues.

The trace needs to be set in the same application server as the user before transaction start. We can check this through SM51 . From the initial screen of ST01, we enter appropriate filter conditions for our trace, mostly this is the user for whom we are checking access, and click the “trace on” button.

The user now executes the sequence of actions to replicate the error. At this point, we click the analysis button, select appropriate filter criteria for the trace file and finally display the trace file itself.