How to Start an SAP Central Instance

Prior to starting the SAP Central Instance, the plug-in does not check any dependencies. After the startup, the plug-in verifies that the main processes are running. The main processes for the SAP Central Instance are:

• main dispatcher

• message server

• two dw child processes from the main dispatcher

The plug-in starts the SAP CI instance by calling the SAP script startsap_DVEBMGS_instance-num_logical-host. If the default installation did not create this script, you need to create this script manually in the home directory of user sidadm.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the SAP Central Instance section of the SAP Tasks page, click Start.

3. Click Run.

4. Select a target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variables.

   Install path of the Central Instance component

   This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

   Force start the SAP Central Instance

   This option is required when the target host does not meet the SAPS requirement to start the SAP instance. See the SAP installation guide for minimum requirements for starting the SAP instance.

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   Note –

   This is only applicable in the SAP AC environment.

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6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.