If the clients (SAPGUI, Wireshark) are all on the M1 MacBook, the SAP VM and the clients operate as nodes on a UTM NAT network (usually 192.168.65.0/24 but some screenshots were taken before doing a Hypervisor upgrade, when the NAT network was 192.168.64.0/24) if any client is on the Intel-based MacBook, the SAP VM and all the clients operate as nodes on the Wi-Fi network. The two physical machines are on the same (home Wi-Fi) network 192.168.68.0/24. – An Intel-based MacBook, on which there is a Hypervisor called VMware Fusion, on which we run one or more Ubuntu VMs (amd64). – An M1 MacBook, on which there is a Hypervisor-Emulator called UTM: the SAP system VM is an (emulated amd64) SAP NetWeaver 7.52 SP04 Developer Edition, installed using the advice in a blog I wrote in 2022 then there are one or more Ubuntu VMs (arm64). The system landscape for the various demos consists of… And we look briefly into how to retrieve SAP data using the SAPDIAG protocol Dissector of the Wireshark plugin. We also show how to make sure that remote capture (via the sshdump tool) is available in all the Wireshark instances you install, and how you can remotely capture SAPGUI traffic. We show some effective ways to get a Wireshark+SAP-Dissectors instance up and running on Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64) architectures, as well as on an Intel-based (amd64) MacBook and on an M1 (arm64) MacBook.

Wireshark can also be used to analyse SAP-specific network traffic – such as for example SAPGUI traffic and RFC traffic – using a most excellent Wireshark plugin for SAP Dissectors, the code for which is provided by SecureAuth on GitHub: Wireshark is a popular and free open-source toolset for analysing network traffic:

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