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I cannot start the upgrade assitant gui

steven_glennie
Explorer
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I am referring to the upgrade guide "SAP NetWeaver 2004s

Business Intelligence ABAP for IBM DB2 Universal Database for iSeries SR1 and I cannot start the upgrade assitant gui.

According to the documentation on page 65 it says to start from a browser type http://<hostname>:4239. When I do this I see the file system with parent directory and /usr/sap/<putDIR> files and nothing else.

I looked at the UaHelp.html and this conflicts with the information in the upgrade documentation and says "It is also possible to view the contents of the upgrade directory with the following URL:

http://hostname:4239

It also says that "The UaGui can now be started in a browser with the following URL:

http://hostname:4239/ua/UaGui.html

but when I check there is no UaGui.html but there is a Uagui.jnlp.

When I first started the Uaserver I got the following

UaServer> Stable storage file '/usr/sap/putbwd/ua/UaState' read

UaServer> Temporary directory is '/usr/sap/putbwd/ua'

UaServer> Property file '/usr/sap/putbwd/ua/UaServer.properties' read

UaServer> Property file '/usr/sap/putbwd/ua/UaServerOS400.properties'

read

UaServer> Configuring HTTP server

UaServer> Using HTTP index file name: index.html

UaServer> Signing JAR file uagui.jar

UaServer> Creating JNLP file uagui.jnlp

UaServer> Starting HTTP server

UaServer> HTTP server started

UaServer> Ready

In the UaHelp.html a similar script (see below) and has additional lines that I do not see and a UaGui.html file is created and not a uagui.jnlp as in my case.

UaServer> Waiting for UaGuis to connect at port 4241

UaServer> UaGui applet tag file '/usr/sap/put/ua/UaGui.html' created

UaServer> Http server 'http://hw1156.wdf.sap-ag.de:4239/' started

UaServer> Switching to log file '/usr/sap/put/ua/UaServer.log'

Any assitance on this would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

Steven

Accepted Solutions (1)

Accepted Solutions (1)

JanStallkamp
Employee
Employee
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Hi Steven.

I just talked to one of our upgrade specialists and he recommends opening a customer message. The upgrade assistant gui works well several years now and is used inside SAP, too. So please open a customer message.

Best regards,

Jan

steven_glennie
Explorer
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Hello Jan,

I had already opened an OSS message. It is number 419081.

I sometimes find that user groups provide speedier answers.

Many thanks

steven

steven_glennie
Explorer
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I managed to get the upgrade assitant working using the alternative method of runnig the java command from the Windows PC.

After the running the command below on the i-series

UASERVER DIR_PUT(‘<upgrade directory>’)

you have to copy the uagui.jar to your PC.

Then from a command prompt enter the following:-

C:\java -cp c:\uagui.jar UaGui

The browser method still doesn't work but I will let you if I get a repsonse that is worth mentioning.

Former Member
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Steven - we used this during our NW2004 upgrade vs. NW2004s but perhaps you can find something of use in here to help

START UPGRADE ASSISTANT SERVER pg 53

ADDLIBLE R3UP

DVE

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_LIBPATH) VALUE('/usr/sap/put_DVE/bin')

IF Message . . . . : Environment variable name exists; then

WRKENVVAR F4 & enter *JOB

LOOK FOR PASE_LIBPATH

FOUND PASE_LIBPATH '/usr/sap/DVE/SYS/exe/run'

2 – change and change it to '/usr/sap/put_DVE/bin'

DVE =

JAVA CLASS(UaServer) CLASSPATH('/usr/sap/put_DVE/ua/ua.jar') PROP((os400.file.io.mode TEXT) (os400.verify.checks.disable 3))

Starting the GUI from the Internet Browser

-To start the GUI from a browser, enter the following Internet address:

http://<host name>:4239/ua/UaGui.html

DVE = http://<hostname>:4239/ua/UaGui.html

-To display the phase list, upgrade documentation, and additional information about the upgrade, enter

the following URL: http://<host name>:4239

From this page, you can also start the Upgrade Assistant GUI using the relevant link.

A logon screen appears.

2. Enter the information requested on the logon screen:

- In the fields User name and Phone number, enter your personal information.

- In the Password field, you must enter a password that specifies whether the GUI has the role of the administrator or the observer.

Role Initial Password

Administrator admin

Observer observer

c) Choose Login.

After you log on, the main menu window appears.

START UPGRADE ASSISTANT SERVER pg 81/53

ADDLIBLE R3UP

DVE

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_LIBPATH) VALUE('/usr/sap/put_DVE/bin')

Message . . . . : Environment variable name exists

WRKENVVAR F4 & enter *JOB

LOOK FOR PASE_LIBPATH

FOUND PASE_LIBPATH '/usr/sap/DVE/SYS/exe/run'

2 – change and change it to '/usr/sap/put_DVE/bin'

DVE =

JAVA CLASS(UaServer) CLASSPATH('/usr/sap/put_DVE/ua/ua.jar') PROP((os400.file.io.mode TEXT) (os400.verify.checks.disable 3))

Starting the GUI from the Internet Browser

-To start the GUI from a browser, enter the following Internet address:

http://<host name>:4239/ua/UaGui.html

-To display the phase list, upgrade documentation, and additional information about the upgrade, enter the following URL:

http://<host name>:4239

From this page, you can also start the Upgrade Assistant GUI using the relevant link.

A logon screen appears.

Enter the information requested on the logon screen:

-In the fields User name and Phone number, enter your personal information.

-In the Password field, you must enter a password that specifies whether the GUI has the role of the administrator or the observer.

Initial Passwords

Role Initial Password

Administrator = admin

Observer = observer

c) Choose Login.

Message was edited by: Doreen Anderson

Message was edited by: Doreen Anderson

Message was edited by: Doreen Anderson

Message was edited by: Doreen Anderson

Answers (2)

Answers (2)

Former Member
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Hi @all

I have this problem, only when i use Internet Explorer 7. With IE6 the error doesn't appear.

Ciao

Paolo

S0001584827
Explorer
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Make sure you have Java installed on you PC...

Former Member
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I also saw the following error message when running http://<hostname>:4239/ in the Browser on <hostname> (Win 2k3 Server with IE 6.0 installed) :

Unable to load resource: http://<hostname>:4239/ua/uagui.jnlp

Running it from another PC on the network with Firefox solved this problem and the Upgrade Assistant GUI was started successfully.

Former Member
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Hi Steven,

I have given up with this "great" tool about 5 years ago ... even when it seems to run pretty fine in the meantime.

I always use the scroll mode in batch with CL-Programs as described in note 86557.

That ALWAYS works without any Java or whatever needs and is VERY stable. For entering the 24 CD mount points (a bit ugly in this method) I use CPYF with a prepared file ...

hth,

Volker Gueldenpfennig