Problem with Instance Number while reinstalling Solution Manager 7.1

[christian_hammel-woitusch]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to install Solution Manager 7.1.

On the machine where i want to install the new Solution Manager was running a Solution Manager 7.0 before.  If I'm now trying to use the same Instance numbers (70/71 in our case here)  the sapinst tells me that those instance numbers are already in use.

Where's that information about the Instance numbers stored ?!?  I'm going to run the Solution Manager on SLES 11 / Oracle 11g. 

Are there any "hidden" files where SAP stores Information about (formerly) used Instance numbers ?

Thanks a lot for your help !

Best regards

Christian

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Christian,

       Have you checked the /etc/services file to mak sure there are no SAP services for 70/71?

[christian_hammel-woitusch · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

i checked the /etc/services but didn't find any entry for a sapservice...

there are several versions of services (services.X) - do you think i should remove the ones not used ?

are there any other places where whose information are stored ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you uninstall the previous SolMan 7.0 instance via SAPInst? Perhaps the manual uninstall does not remove all the SAP services. Also check /usr/sap/sapservices which contain definitions of the old instances.

Regards,

Srikishan

[nicholas_chang · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have perform the complete uninstallation with SAPINST? have you housekeep all your old SOLMAN folder? eg: /sys/profile?

Thanks,

nicholas chang

[christian_hammel-woitusch · Accepted solution]

Hi,

unfortunaltely I could not use sapinst as the previous solman was "screwed up".

i definitely found entries in /ertc/services and removed them. Thanks for this advice!

But sapinst still moans that there are existing Instances...  I'll go on searching...

regards,

christian

[christian_hammel-woitusch · Accepted solution]

hi,

I did remove every content from the directories sapinst creates while install-process. i did at least found some files that still were there. But nothing concerning the issues with the instance numbers.

regards,

christian    

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Christian,

        Sorry I did not get back with you earlier.  Is the issue corrected?  My experience with installation failure indicating previous SAP SID's is usually the /etc/services entries were not cleaned up.

[christian_hammel-woitusch · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

the issue is solved as i mentioned below. i guess the main problem was the /etc/services!  Thanks for your help so far  !

[christian_hammel-woitusch]

I did some more investigations and it was definitely the /etc/services

after clearing up the /etc/services and a reboot everything worked fine !