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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0

Creating and Managing Groups

The Tasks page of the software enables you to create and manage groups. Groups are created to allow the user to manage resource as a single unit.

This section describes the following tasks:

ProcedureHow to Create a Group Component

Groups are created for the purpose of organizing hosts that work with the same SAP application.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

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

  2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click Create.

  3. Click Run.

  4. In the Plan Parameters table, select the variable settings for the Group component.

    • If the variable settings have been created for this component, select the appropriate settings from the drop-down menu.

    • If the variable settings are not available from the drop-down menu:

      1. Click Select From List.

        The Select Variable Settings From List window displays.

        • To create a new variable settings set, click Create Set and type a Set Name.

          The following list provides commonly updated variables for the Group component. To create a value for the component variable, click the check box in the component variable's row.

          Note –

          For information about component variables ending in UserExit, see User Exits.

          groupName

          This is a required field.

          Note –

          In the Sun Cluster environment, the groupName must equal the Sun Cluster resource group name.

          groupDescription

          A description of the group.

          envType

          Identifies whether this component will be deployed to a Default, Sun Cluster, or SAP AC environment. Value can be either ac, sc, or default.

          createdBy

          Identifies the installer of the component.

      2. Click Save.

    • To use component variables from another component, click Import Set.

      For more information about importing variable sets, see How to Run a Plan in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide.

  5. Select the target host or target host set.

  6. Provide the plan variable.

    List of nodes on which this group can run

    This is a list of the nodes on which it has been pre-determined that the resources in the group will run. This list can be one or more nodes delimited by a comma. If left blank, the default is the target host value.

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

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

ProcedureHow to Delete a Group Component

This task removes the group component entry from the SPS database.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task. However, should an application server be a member of the group, the application server is uninstalled unless the markOnly delete check box is selected.

Steps

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

  2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click Delete.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select the target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Group name

    This is a required field.

    markOnly delete (default environment only)

    If this check box is selected, an application server in the group is not uninstalled from the host.

    Note –

    This option only applies to the default environment. This option has no effect in the Sun Cluster and SAP AC environments.

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

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

ProcedureHow to Start a Group Component

This task calls the start control block in the group component to start all resources in the group. The status for all resources in the group is refreshed when you list the resource group or resource.

Steps

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

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

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select the target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Group name

    This is a required field

    Force start the resources in the group

    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.

    Note –

    This option applies to the default and SAP AC environment.

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

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

ProcedureHow to Stop a Group Component

This task calls the stop control block in the group component to stop all resources in the group. The status for all resources in the group is refreshed when you list the resource group or resource.

Steps

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

  2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click Stop.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select the target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Group name

    This is a required field.

    Shutdown mode for database

    The possible values are: normal, immediate, and abort. Default value: immediate.

    Force stop resources after graceful stop failed

    This option is selected by default.

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

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

ProcedureHow to Relocate a Group Component

When you relocate a group, you are moving all the components in the group from one physical host to another.

Note –

This task does not apply to the default environment.

Steps

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

  2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click Relocate.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select the target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Group name

    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.

    Destination host name

    This is a required field. If no value is provided, the plan errors.

    Force start the SAP Central Instance on a small server

    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.

    Note –

    This option is only applicable in the SAP AC environment.

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

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

ProcedureHow to View All Group Components

This task displays a table listing all the group components with install paths.

Steps

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

  2. In the Group section of the SAP Tasks page, click View All.

    The Hosts Where Installed table is displayed.