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Solution Manager 4.0 Installation

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Prerequisites for SAP Solution Manager Installation

JDK environment should be installed (version should be from Java 1.4 family Equal to
or higher then JAVA 1.4.2_11 but not higher then 1.4.2_13) Ref. Note 716604
Minimum Java options for 7.00 SAP systems Ref. Note 716604
-XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
Please read SAP note 723909 for more JAVA environment settings for SAP
Set Java home variable
Set Oracle home and Oracle SID variable
SWAP Space 3 to 4 * RAM
Execute memlimits to verify paging space size and kernel settings as follows:
1. To unpack the file memlimits, enter the following commands:
a) cd <INSTDIR>
b) <DVD-DIR>/K0<x>/UNIX/<OS>/SAPCAR xvfg \
c) <DVD-DIR>/K0<x>/UNIX/<OS>/SAPEXE.SAR memlimits
2. Start memlimits as follows:
./memlimits -l 20000
If you see error messages, increase the paging space and rerun memlimits until there
are no more errors.

Check OS Patches Ref Note 832871 (SUN Solaris 10)

Setting of OS kernel parameters as per Note 724713 (SUN Solaris 10)
Temporary directory (/tmp) has the permissions 777
Standard SAP File systems for an ABAP + JAVA system. Folders in grey need to be
created manually before installation.

SAP Installation files (DVDs) to be available and mounted before starting Installation:
1. SAP Installation master (ZIP 51032955_10 SOLMAN40 SR3 Installation Master).
2. JAVA Component Currently we have 5 files for JAVA; after extraction we will get a
single file which will be used in installation.
3. JAVA Cryptographic policy file It needs to be downloaded from SUN Microsystems
website http://java.sun.com/products/jce/
4. SAP Installation Export - Currently we have 4 files for Export; after extraction we will get a
single file which will be used in installation.
5. SAP Unicode Kernel
6. Oracle client Will be installed by SAPinst during SAP installation.
7. SAP License Keys and License Audit ( needs to be downloaded)
8. SAP presentation CD (needs to be downloaded).

# Note - All of the above Files\DVDs need to be extracted to individual directories and mounted
Except JAVA policy file.
SAP Parameters values to be determined before starting installation:
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SAP System ID <SAPSID>

Database ID <DBSID>
Instance Number
Name of the instance Host
Messaging Service Port
Master Passwords The length has to be 8 to 14 characters.
Parameters relevant for the file system
SAP system mount directory - /usr/sap (shared as /sapmnt)
Oracle database file system Oracle Home
SAP Data home
Client destination
Sapdata directory

Approx Size of the SAP Datafiles after Solution Manager 4.0 Installation
File System Name

Space Requirement

/oracle/<DBSID>/sapdata1

18 GB

/oracle/<DBSID>/sapdata2

20 GB

/oracle/<DBSID>/sapdata3

9 GB

/oracle/<DBSID>/sapdata4

1 GB

Oracle Installation
Step 1: Execute Oracle installer

Step 2 : Click on next after verfiying the above information.

Step 3: Click on next

Step 4: As Oracle database will be created by SAP installer during SAP installation; select
install database software only option and click next

Step 5: You will get the summary of the products which will be installed; verify and click Install

Step 6: Execute the root.sh script as suggested by installtion

Step 7: You will see the below screen once the Oracle Installtion is complete

Oracle Patch Installation

Step1 : Execute oracle installer from patch cd and click next

Step 2: Select the home directory of your oracle installtion and click next

Step 3: Oracle Installer shows the summary of the installed products that will be affected by the
patch; click Install

Step 4: Below screen shows the progress of the Patch Installtion activities

Step 5: Execute the root.sh script as suggested in the screen below and click OK

Step 6: Once the application of Oracle patch is successful click on Exit

Solution Manager 4.0 Installation

Step 1: Login with user root
Set following parameters
PATH = <add java jdk path>
JAVA_HOME=<java jdk 1.4_<v> path>
Oracle_Home=< oracle home>

another install was

nohup
oracle/install_sw/NW/installation_master/IM08_SOLARIS_64/SAPINST/UNIX/SUNOS_
64/sapinst SAPINST_START_GUI=false&

# PATH=/local/jdk/bin:$PATH
# export PATH
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sapmnt/DSM
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# pwd
/usr/sap/DSM/install
# nohup /oracle/instmast/SAP*/IM_SOLARIS_SPARC/sapinst SAPINST_START_GUI=false&
Step 2: Execute sapinst from Installation master CD

Step 3: In the SAPinst window expand SAP Solution Manager 4.0 Support Release 3

Step 4: From the drop down select SAP Solution Manager 4.0 Support Release 3>SAP
Systems>Oracle>Central System>Central System Installation and click next.

Step 5: As it is a new installation select Run a new installation and click OK

Step 6: Select Typical in below screen and click Next

Step 7: In next screen we need to provide path for JAVA component CD; click Next

Step 8: In the below screen provide the path for directory where JDK is installed and click Next

Step 9: Provide the path for JCE policy file and click Next.

Step 10: Enter the system ID for the new SAP system to be installed and the path of the
directory
where SAP software will be installed.

Step 11: Provide a master password for all the SAP users that will be created during Installation

Step 12: Enter the SID for the new database and host on which it should be installed.

Step 13: After the above step SAPInst will check if the system meets all the prerequisites for
installation

Step 14: You may get some wranings you can ignore them and click on Cancel to continue with
the installation.

Step 15: In the below screen provide the path for Export 1 CD and click OK

Step 16: In the below screen provide the path for Export 4 CD and click OK

Step 17: In the below screen provide the path for Kernel and Oracle client CD and click OK

Step 18: As there is already a SLD in ADSK landscape; choose option Register in existing
central SLD (default) and click Next.

Step 19: Enter the existing SLD details in the below screen and click Next

Step 20: The next screen shows you the summary of all the parameter values enetered; verify
and change values if required. If all the parameters are fine.Click Start to trigger the installation.

Got following error when started installation

Cause: After checking the logs reason for the error was insufficient privileges on /usr/sap and
JDK directory.

Resolution: Permission of directories were modified

Step 21: Installation stops at the step of Oracle installation and prompts to install oracle
software. As we already installed Oracle software at start; click on OK to proceed

Installation will continue without any further input

Below screen shows successful completion of Solution Manager 4.0

Post Installation Tasks Performed

1. SAP License installed
2. Initial STMS configuration performed in client 000.
3. DSM added to ESM domain
4. Created client 151 as a copy of client 001.
5. Executed SGEN in Client 151
6. Imported profiles through RZ10
7. Created a Local printer ZLOCAL
8. Checked the BR*Tools if they are working or not
9. Changed the default client to 151
10. Switched database log mode to No-Archive log mode