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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Useful Ebooks for Download

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Patch Management - What to Download

Download Support Package

All SAP Support Package are required to download from Market place http://service.sap.com/swdc.

Login to Market Place at http://service.sap.com/swdc with you OSS-id
Expand Download
Click on My Company’s Application
SAP NETWEAVER link to download ABAP and Java SP and Kernel files. Java SP is only applicable for SAP BW Server. ABAP SP and Kernel is applicable for SAP BA and SAP BW server.
SAP SPAM/SAINT Update link to download the latest version of Support Package Manager
You also can download Kernel from this main page.
In next Section you will see steps to download for ABAP SP, Java SP and Kernel

Download Kernel

Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server ABAP
Expand the Kernel SAP KERNEL 7.0 64-BIT UNICODE ->AIX 64bit
You have to download Kernel Part 1 from ORACLE link and Kernel PART 2 from #Database independent link
You need to download 1 SAR file from Kernel Part 1 which is latest and normally the name start with “SAPEXE_XXXX”
Then you need to down 2 files from Kernel Part 2. Which is DBA tools and Kernel Part 2 (latest patch)
SAPCAR all the 3 files in 1 temporary directory.

Download ABAP Support Package

Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server ABAP
Select the component that you want to download e.g. SAP BASIS 7.00
Then Select the package level that you want to download
Then click on to “Add to Download Basket” to download.
The info button give information about the each packages
Then SAPCAR all download package to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in in development application server
Two files should be created when you SAPCAR each ABAP SP files which is .ATT and .PAT

Download JAVA Support Package

Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server Java
Select the package from the list
Then Select the package level that you want to download
Then click on to “Add to Download Basket” to download.
The info button give information about the each packages
Then copy all download package to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in in SAP BW development application server.
The file name should be with extension .SCA

Extract SAR files

All SAR files that has been download and copied to server need to be extract.
SAP has extract tool to extract the SAR files.
You have to login has adm
Then go to the location where you copied SAR files
Then execute “SAPCAR –xvf ”
Copy all the .ATT and PAT file to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in directory.
Then use SPAM to upload this files to SAP

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Enterprise Portal Administration

General Administration – Starting and Stopping

SAP Enterprise Portal can only be started or stopped together with SAP Business Warehouse. The startsap and stopsap commands for SAP Business Warehouse are used for starting and stopping the Portal as well. Manually stopping the Portal through SAP Business Warehouse is not advisable due to their close integration.

SAP Enterprise Portal Startup
To start SAP Enterprise Portal,

Login as bwpadm in app server
ex:
rdmspbwap:bwpadm>startsap

Portal Engine Administration – Core Parameter Changes

Core parameter configuration for SAP Enterprise Portal can be done through the Visual Administrator application. Visual Administrator can be accessed using SSH X-terminal. Login to the desired Portal server and browse to /usr/sap//DVEBMGS01/j2ee/admin/. Type “./go” in order to launch Visual Administrator.

Visual Administrator is the main application for core parameter changes. Core parameters are the settings that control how the Portal engine works and should not be changed unless it is absolutely necessary. Due to the high number of parameters that can be changed from Visual Administrator, please refer to SAP support site for reference.

Reference on Visual Administrator is available here: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/39/83682615cd4f8197d0612529f2165f/frameset.htm

Portal Engine Administration – Core Parameter Changes (II)

Another application that can be used to change Portal core parameters is the offline ConfigTool. It is to be used when Visual Administrator is not accessible. Visual Administrator only works when Portal Java engine is running. In the case of Portal Java engine being down, ConfigTool may be used instead. ConfigTool may be accessed by login into the desired Portal server and browse to /usr/sap//DVEBMGS01/j2ee/configtool/. Type “./configtool.sh” in order to launch ConfigTool.

Reference on ConfigTool is available here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/99/a9c93f4d903b1ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Portal Engine Administration – Changing j2ee_admin password

If you change j2ee_admin user password in SAP BW system, then you have to manually change in j2ee engine. This can be done using the configtool.sh. If you do not change password here then you will have problem to apply patches using JSPM in future. ** The steps was taken from SAP Note 701654.

Login to adm into SAP BW application server and browse to /usr/sap//DVEBMGS01/j2ee/configtool/.Type “./configtool.sh” in order to launch ConfigTool.

Excute the configtool.sh
Change the admin password and then click add
From the menu select apply to save the changes.
In order this to take effect, you need to restart SAP,Oracle and Oracle listener.