Immediately after the PC started, ERP-Scale fails to connect to the SAP Gateway.
The log shows:
2023/12/05 15:58:43:234 RFC error occurred: 1002 / Error Starting RFC Server / RFC_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE / ERROR hostname 'xxx.xxx.xxx' unknown TIME Tue Dec 05 15:58:43 2023 RELEASE 720 COMPONENT NI (network interface) VERSION 40 RC -2 MODULE nixxhl.cpp LINE 193 DETAIL NiHLGetNodeAddr: hostname cached as unknown COUNTER 20
This error occurs if ERP-Scale attempts to connect to the SAP Gateway before the Windows operating system networking services have initialized. The SAP RFC library caches the connection as hostname unknown.
To avoid this issue, open the Windows Services App (services.msc) and change the startup type for the Pocket Programs SapScaleService to Automatic (Delayed Start):
