SAP List of Installation Tasks for an ABAP System
I often struggled in my beginning days as an SAP Basis administrator to figure out two items– one, what are the steps to complete an SAP installation, and two, when was I essentially done with the installation and could turn it over to the customer?
This question was difficult, because as you know, there are a couple of hundred pages in the installation guides. The layout of the guide is very–shall we say–confusing, and there are multiple possible starting points. So over time, I distilled the guide down to a simple list of tasks. By no means will it work for every environment, and you won’t get away from reading the installation guide. I also occasionally update it.
However, here’s the list. Suggestions for improvement are welcome!
HOW TO INSTALL SAP:
1. Proper level of Java installation for Netweaver & SAPINST (Probably Java 1.4.2_13)
2. Operating System Preparation (steps 3-5):
3. Configure Swap (page file set to 3-4X RAM)
4. File cache configured
5. Install DVDs copied locally
6. Download Kernel CD
7. Download Kernel updates
8. Adobe Reader installed  (on Windows servers)
9. SAPGUI installed (on Windows servers)
10. SAPTRANSHOST configured (hostname)
11. SAPInst preparation complete (test that java command line works)
12. Oracle client install (or other DB as required)
13. Oracle DB installation
14. CI Install
15. DB Load
16. Kernel Update
17. Change SQL Server Service (MSSQL) to run under domain account (this makes it possible to backup to network shares)
18. License Install
19. ABAP Load Generation (T-code SGEN)
20. Initial Performance Tuning (I’ll post some tips in a later blog)
21. SICK check
22. Create Operations Mode
23. Assign time profile
24. Assign default logon client
25. Verify stop-and-start of SAP
26. Change STZAC to proper timezone
27. Create batch user
28. Log on as batch user in client 000 and schedule standard jobs
29. Log on in 000 as DDIC and run RDDIMPDP & RDDNEWPP
30. Run in all latest support packages
31. Re-run SGEN
32. Copy client 000 to specified default client
33. Set default client in RZ10
34. Enter new system in SLD as necessary
35. Add system into STMS
36. Backup and recovery test
Create some users and turn it over to the team; you’re done for now!
Contact us now and we can do it for you to keep your project on track.
Tags: Installations, new sap system, sap abap, sap basis, sap installation
August 13th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Fantastic checklist!
How long does that usually take on a W2k3 64bit system and is it quicker with MS SQL than Oracle?
August 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Hi, glad it helped.
I usually take about 3 days (8 hours per day) to complete it.
Of course, if all the media are copied, files are downloaded, partitions created, etc. you can complete it in a few hours.
A SQL Server or Oracle system take roughly the same amount of time.