Livecache patch upgrade in MSCS environment

[Former Member]

Hello everyone,

I have installed livecache 7.7.02 BUILD 008-123-149-275 in MSCS and planning to upgrade the patch level to KERNEL 7.7.04 BUILD 029-123-196-543.

My installation type is,

Independent Programs directory - local hard disk

Independent Data Directory - distributed disk

Instance Dependent directory - local hard disk

So note Note 508979 - Upgrade of SAP DB/MaxDB/liveCache w/ Cluster MSCS Var.1 applies in my case.

However, need help in understanding one section of this note,

Points 14 and 15 talk about notes on how to run SDBUPD, however do not specify whether SDBUPD is to be run on node B. After manually copying the files to node B, as described in the note, do we still need to run upgrade (SDBUPD) on node 2 ?

Also, It would be great to have some more reading on Livecache upgrades in MSCS environment.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Kiran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Kiran,

in previous step note says to switch the cluster group to node B,

and also you have already upgraded software in node A before (with sdbinst)

so SDBUPD shouldbe run in node B in step 14

yes you do need to upgrade node B as there is only few files copied to node B manualy

Regards

Ivan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Ivan,

Thanks for the reply.

I started upgrading livecache patch as per note 508979. Completed the patch upgrade node 1 using SDBINST. Completed all the steps till step 13. On step 14, I started SDBUPD on node B.

At this stage I get following message on command prompt,

Install>SDBUPD -d MLP -u control,<password>

SAP liveCache INSTANCE UPDATE

*****************************

starting installation We, Jun 10, 2009 at 14:59:10

operating system: Windows AMD64 NT 5.2 Service Pack 2

callers working directory: C:/Dumps/Latest_Livecache_Kernel/lca600018_livecache-

win-64bit-x86_64-7_7_04_29

installer directory: C:/Dumps/Latest_Livecache_Kernel/lca600018_livecache-win-64

bit-x86_64-7_7_04_29

archive directory: C:/Dumps/Latest_Livecache_Kernel/lca600018_livecache-win-64bi

t-x86_64-7_7_04_29

beginning to check sap db instances

start new instance update

-

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The installation remains stuck after this message.

I ensured xserver and sap instance were stopped before installation. Tried rebooting the server (Node B), but same result.

Pls can you suggest something on this.

Regards,

Kiran

[lbreddemann · Accepted solution]

Hi Kiran,

you may open a support message for that so that we can take a look.

regards,

Lars

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Lars,

I have raised a support message for this issue - 0000566712.

Regards,

Kiran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Lars,

Was wondering if I should retry using SDBINST instead of SDBUPD on node B.

Would appreciate any suggestion in this.

Regards,

Kiran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kiran,

Your answer is there in your question .

Yes if SDBUPD hangs in between then you should run SDBINST with option all.

Kind Regards,

Gulam

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks a ton,

I could complete the upgrade with SDBINST on node B (Note: 680380).

Regards,

Kiran

[Former Member]

Hello Kiran,

running sdbinst can work as workaround but do not forget to upgrade system tables after runnign

sdbinst. And also sdbinst can be used only and only whne doing minor upgrade.

Regards

Ivan