MDM's profiles

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I'm using MDM 7.1 on UNIX and I'm little bit confused about its profile.

There are some files in /sapmnt/<SID>/profile as follows:

- DEFAULT.PFL

- <SID>_MDS00_<hostname>

- <SID>_MDS00_<hostname>.INI

- <SID>_MDIS01_<hostname>

- <SID>_MDIS01_<hostname>.INI

- <SID>_MDSS02_<hostname>

- <SID>_MDSS02_<hostname>.INI

Does anyone know when/how MDM server use these profiles?

For example, <SID>_MDS00_<hostname>.INI includes very similar parameters in mds.ini, but number of parameters is less than mds.ini.

Do I need to edit/maintenance these profiles?

Any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Ikue

[bglobee]

Hi,

Please go through the MDM installation guide.

[Former Member]

Hi Ikue,

Below are the files located in /sapmnt/<SID>/profile path,

DEFAULT.PFL - Contains global parameters that apply to all instances

                            Since we have 3 different instances MDS, MDIS, MDSS, only

                            SID, GLOBALHOST NAME, OS type parameters are present in it

INSTANCE PROFILE - Contains the instance specific parameters.

                                      Format of instance profile: <SID>_<INSTANCE  NAME>_<Host Name>

                                      <SID>_MDSXX_<hostname>

                                      <SID>_MDISXX_<hostname>

                                      <SID>_MDSSXX_<hostname> files contains the instance specific parameters of Master Data (Server, Import server, Syndication server) respectively which includes the Instance name, Listening port number, parameters of wily, sld registrations,..

                                   <SID>_MDSXX_<hostname>.INI

                                   <SID>_MDISXX_<hostname>.INI

                                   <SID>_MDSSXX_<hostname>.INI files contains the parameters almost same to the configuration parameters(/sapmnt/<SID>MDXXXX/config) these contain directory locations(Log, reports, accelerators, transport, archive, distribution...) & also wily, sld details(True or False) are defined in these files

Coming to your questions,

On every start of the instance, the default profile & the respective instance profile will be used

You can edit the instance profile parameters to your feasibility, as i mentioned above you can change the directory locations of the instances, also you can use wily instumentation, its threshold value,..
Mostly the parameters will be set at the time of installation, unless required no edition of parameters is necessary

I hope this might help you

Regards,

Mahesh Babu

[Former Member]

Hi Ikue,

DEFAULT.PFL is always used whenever any SAP System is started and running.

Please try to open DEFAULT.PFL and try to find if the reference for the .ini file

Definitely you can edit the .ini file and manipulate the parametere

Regards.

[Former Member]

Hi Verma,

My DEFAULT.PFL contains only 4 lines:

SAPSYSTEMNAME = <SID>

OS_UNICODE = uc

SAPGLOBALHOST = <hostname>

system/type =

After I started MDM server using "sapcontrol -nr 00 -function StartSystem", I found that the following process exists,

sapstart pf=/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/profile/<SID>_MDS00_<hostname>

So, maybe, sapcontrol calls sapstart with that Instance profile(<SID>_MDS00_<hostname>).

How about DEFAULT.PFL? Which program calls it?

And also what is <SID>_MDS00_<hostname>.INI file?

Regards,

Ikue