System installation date

[Former Member]

HI ,

I want to know whether we can know when was the system installed .IS there any method to find out .Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Check the date of profiles. Obviously there should be DEFAULT profile which might not be removed.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

How do you check the date of profiles?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

You check this link and find out your database creation date.

http://www.lazydba.com/oracle/0__136241.html

The installation date will be the same.

Reagrds

Ashok Dalai

[anindya_bose · Accepted solution]

Hi Ambarish

You can look at table TPFHT from se16. Click on the first version of default profile. It will show you the data when it was created.

That should be the installation date of a newly created system

If you did a system copy then also you can find the installation date from there. Because if you click on any version of the default profile you will get a filed "Server Name" Generally for system copy this field will be different.

You can confirm with the profile creation date of START and INSTANCE profile.

But there may be some table where SAP keeps the installation date information , if I can find that will let you know.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I'm looking for installation date of SAP system, too. Is there any table in SAP where system stores installation date?

Anindya or anybody else, did you found out anything?

I think the idea to check the profiles is a good one, but I think although, there has got to be a table, where installation date is stored.

Regards,

Julia

[Former Member]

Hi,

try tcode sm62...

[Former Member]

Just Go at os level and check that avalible .log in the work Dirrectory the first entry will show you when was the system first started after intall.

thanks

Rishi abrol

[Former Member]

Did you check the table INSTVERS ?

[Former Member]

yes i did there are no entries.I want to know only from the R/3 side .Because from the OS level one can get the creation date .In windows we can see the creation date of the folders created during installation.But i wanted to specifically from R/3 side.

[Former Member]

I dont know if installation date is stored somewhere in sap but you may try to find out change documents for user DDIC in client 000/001. As this is the user created while installtion you may get some idea.

Try SUIM->Change Documents->For Users->enter from date from the past (may 20 years)->execute->Search for the user DDIC and action type 'Initial user type'

Hope this helps.