KernelUpgrade on AIX with Oracle.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I had down loaded the latest kernel files from market place,then whats the proceddure to upgrade the kernel on AIX with Oracle.can i stop only sap services or any services.guide me for the same for step by step.

Thanku

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kumar,

Just keep that kernel files in some location. and extract the same using SAPCAR -xvf FILENAME.SAR

There should be 2 different files related to kernel: 1) Database dependent

2) Database independent

Stop SAP&DATABASE, then take old kernel backup.

And put latest extracted kernel file in kernel directory, check SAPNOTE 113747 to reset the BRTOOLS file permissions.

Start DATABASE&SAP.

Regards

Nick Loy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi kumar,

first stop all your SAP applications and oscollectors

stopsap

and saposcol -k

then stop your oracle listner also

lsnrctl stop

then extract your SAPEXE.SAR and SAPEXEDB.SAR file using latest sapcar in one temp directory.

do not use sapcar which you will going to replace in same directory. otherwise it will give you overwite sapcar error.

after SAPEXE.SAR extraction there 2 more sar files pwdisp.sar and icmadmin.sar

extract these two files also

then keep copy of exe folder inside /usr/sap/<SID> which is your kernel

then replace all these extracted file in the original exe folder.

then run sh saproot.sh to set file permissions of BRtools.

and restart the machine

Regards,

Nitin Salunkhe

[Former Member]

hello,

You also need to update some separate components along with SAPEXE.SAR & SAPEXEDB.SAR files. you can separately download these components fron DB independent part like ccmsagent, TP, DBSL, brtools, trans, disp+work etc.

Sometimes there are higher pathces available for these components.

Regards

Anju

[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer SAP note 205074.

It gives step step installation of SAP kenel on AIX.

It's a generalise note, check out the applicable steps for your environment.

Regards,

Sachin Rane.