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

Before Installing the SAP Plug-In

The general tasks you need to do before installing the SAP plug-in are:

  1. Install the SPS Master Server (MS), Remote Agent (RA), and Command Line Interface (CLI) on the Master Server host.

    For more information, see the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide.

  2. Install the SPS Remote Agent (RA) on all SAP machines and prepare them.

    For more information, see Non-Interactive Installation of a Remote Agent on Linux and UNIX Systems in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide.

  3. Install all SAP central instances and Oracle databases.

    Note –

    Make sure they are virtualized.

    For more information, see the SAP HA Switchover Document for an overview of virtualization and How to Enable Failover SAP Instances to Run in a Cluster in Sun Cluster Data Service for SAP Guide for Solaris OS.

  4. For instances that are under the control of Sun Cluster, perform the following steps:

    1. Ensure that the clusters are installed and set up correctly.

    2. Ensure that all Sun Cluster data services are installed.

    3. Ensure that all Sun Cluster resource groups and resources are set up correctly.

    For more information, see Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS.

  5. For instances that are under the control of SAP AC, make sure the server is installed and set up correctly.

  6. Although the following items can be managed locally on the file system, they should be managed by NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.

    • Update all SAP machines' /etc/services file with port information for all SAP instances.

    • Ensure that all SAP users, (sidadm) are present on the system. Users are defined locally in /etc/password.

    • Ensure that all logical host names are present on the system. Logical host are defined in /etc/hosts.

    • Group information must be maintained. Groups are defined in /etc/group.

    • An appropriate project must be created for each resource. See the project(4) man page for more details on the project file and related information on creating a project.

  7. Directories for SAP must be present on the servers. You can create these directories in one of the following methods:

    • Use the plug-in nfsshare or nfsmount components

    • Mount manually through NFS

    • Create the directories manually on each target servers

    • Use automounter

      Note –

      Management of the automounter map is required.