Directory structure on Win/MSS

[Former Member]

Hello,

It is a conceptual doubt, not an error.

We have several Dialog instances (on separate boxes) for our Production system running R/3 4.7 on Win server 2003 + MS SQL 8.00.2040

I noticed that directory structure of Dialog hosts don't have SYS directory under D:\usr\sap\<SID>.

Hence the profile directory \usr\sap\<SID>\SYS\profile is only present in Central instance host. It doesn't seem to be mounted on any Dialog instance host.

Q: How does any Dialog instance, in this case, reads the Start & Instance profiles during startup?

- Roshan

[Former Member]

Hi Roshan,

What you are seeing is correct.

You DI instance access the profiles residing in CI instance (/sys/) using global share called 'sapmmnt'

may be you can refer below URL for more informative.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/0a/0a2e36ef6211d3a6510000e835363f/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW70EHP1/helpdata/EN/20/f8e36764b1e049beee648a987e4315/content.htm

Regards

Sekhar

[Former Member]

Hi Sekhar,

What you say is correct.

My question is specific to Windows OS, where I am not able to see (on DI's) any sapmnt or any mapping to the global share.

There must definitely be some mapping but somehow its not visible.

E.g.

In a DI host running on UNIX you can view directory structure like below, which clearly shows SYS dir

[user@host ~]$ cd /usr/sap/PD1/

[user@host PD1]$ ll

total 28

drwxr-xr-x 8 pd1adm sapsys 4096 Oct 13 08:29 D03

drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 8 16:30 lost+found

drwxrwx--- 4 pd1adm sapsys 4096 Nov 3 04:33 out

drwxr-xr-x 5 pd1adm sapsys 4096 Oct 13 08:26 SYS

But windows doesn't show the SYS dir. by default. Why?

By which method/route is sapmnt being accessed in Windows environment?

>

> may be you can refer below URL for more informative.
> 
> http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/0a/0a2e36ef6211d3a6510000e835363f/content.htm
> http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW70EHP1/helpdata/EN/20/f8e36764b1e049beee648a987e4315/content.htm

PS: please check below link for a detailed directory structure of SAP running on Unix -

http://bit.ly/4TqUTQ

BR,

Roshan