it's the database belonging to the sap system - no external db..sap application server resides on host A, the correspondig database on host B 
os is Windows 2008 R2, SQLServer is 2008 R2...
@S Sriram...what exactly do you mean? My goal is to use transaction DBACOCKPIT (or any transaction alike) to plan/control at least database and log backup...so my question is as follows:
Do I need an additional gateway instance (running on the db host) or is it possible without?
When using an Oracle db I do know that I need an additional gw instance running on the db host...
GreetZ, AH