Patches of Solaris 9 (SUNOS 5.9) for SAP 4.7 Ext 200

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

We are getting some Sun hardware issues regarding log generation and other firmware issue, our support vendor has recommeded us to apply some Solaris 9 patches on machines. Since we are running SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7 ext 200 please help me whether following patches are allowed and recommended for smooth functioning of SAP. Please tell if any of patches mentioned have problem in executing SAP. Please also note we are running Oracle 9.2.

My support vendor has explained me that all of these patches are related to hardware i.e. controllers, network cards etc

Kindly recommend.

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Firmware:

Patch-ID# 142706-01

Keywords: sun fire v880 v890 obp

Synopsis: Hardware/PROM: Sun Fire V880 / V890 Flash PROM Update

Patch-ID# 142707-01

Keywords: sun fire v440 netra 440

Synopsis: Hardware/PROM: Sun Fire V440 and Netra 440 Flash PROM Update

OS Level Patches:

The following patches are important for Sun-Fire-880

(RC) indicates that patch is part of the recent Recommended_Patch_Cluster for Solaris_5.9

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: Patch 112951-09 is downrev. Install 112951-15. (RC) SunOS 5.9: patchadd and patchrm Patch

: Patch 112233-12 is sufficient. (RC) SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch

: Patch 117171-10 is downrev. Install 117171-17. (RC) SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch

: Patch 118558 is missing. Install 118558-39. (RC) SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch

: Patch 122300 is missing. Install 122300-55. SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch

: Patch 112834-04 is downrev. Install 112834-06. (RC) SunOS 5.9: patch scsi

: Patch 112838-09 is downrev. Install 112838-13. SunOS 5.9: pcicfg Patch

: Patch 112965-03 is downrev. Install 112965-07. (RC) SunOS 5.9: eri driver patch

: Patch 113042-08 is downrev. Install 113042-20. SAN 4.4.x: qlc driver patch

: Patch 113046-01 is sufficient. SunOS 5.9: fcp Patch

: Patch 114731-06 is downrev. Install 114731-09. (RC) SunOS 5.9: glm driver patch

: Patch 114878-08 is downrev. Install 114878-10. SAN 4.4.x: JNI driver support patch

: Patch 116561-04 is downrev. Install 116561-16. (RC) SunOS 5.9: Volume System H/W Series platmod patch

: Patch 112913-01 is downrev. Install 112913-02. SunOS 5.9: fruadm Patch

: Patch 113027-03 is downrev. Install 113027-07. SunOS 5.9: libfrureg.so.1 patch

Patch ID : 116423-03 Hardware/FCode: JNI PCI Single + Dual 2Gbit FC Network Host Adapter

Regards

Waqas

[former_member189546 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Not every SUN patch is tested by SAP in general recommendation is to

be on latest one.

OK to apply the patches mentioned there should be no issue with SAP.

regards,

John Feely

[markus_doehr2]

First of all:

Be aware that both your system (R/3 4.7) and your database (Oracle 9.x) are already out of support, if you plan to upgrade to Oracle 10g be aware that the support even for that version runs out and end of July.

Make sure you have at least the Solaris patches mentioned in

Note 550585 - SAP relevant patches for Solaris 9 on SPARC

Apart from that I highly consider upgrading the system and the database to a supported version.

Markus

[Former Member]

Thanks Markus,

Yes we know that we are out support, though we are in customer specific maintnenace support with SAP, we are planning for upgrades.

sapnote 550585 talks about minimum patches to be installed before installation. am I right ?

So can we implement these patches I mentioned on my SUN V880 system without affecting SAP functioning.

Are we aware of known issues with them. Kindly share.

Regard

Waqas