Kernel Upgrade Help

[Former Member]

I am trying to do a kernel upgrade on our solution manager system. It is installed on a Windows 2003 x64 server, running MS SQL 2005.

I believe I am running kernel patch 83. I went to System, Status, Kernel Information and it showed kernel patch 83.

Here is what I did to update the kernel:

1. I then downloaded SAPEXE_114-20001354.SAR and SAPEXEDB_114-2001361.SAR.

2. I ran SAPCAR against them to extract them.

3. I stopped SAP

4. I then made a backup of E:\usr\sap\SLM\DVEBMGS01\exe.

5. I copied the files I just extracted into E:\usr\sap\SLM\DVEBMGS01\exe and overwrote.

6. I then started SAP

SAP started ok, but when I went back into System, Status, Kernel Information, it still showed that I was running kernel patch 83.

What did I do wrong? What is the proper way to do a kernel upgrade?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

have a look at the value of your profile parameter DIR_CT_RUN (probably E:\usr\sap\SLM\SYS\exe\nuc\ntamd64 - if non unicode or E:\usr\sap\SLM\SYS\exe\uc\ntamd64 - if unicode.

you have to extract the archives to this directory.

a executable replication process (sapcpe) running during sap startup will replicate the executables from DIR_CT_RUN to DIR_EXECUTABLE (E:\usr\sap\SLM\DVEBMGS01\exe in your case)

regards

Peter

[Former Member]

Hi,

Before coping the kernel do the following steps....

stopsap all

stopsap sapstartsrv DVEBMGS<abap instance no>

stopsap sapstartsrv SCS<java instance no>

saposcol -k

cleanipc <abap instance no> remove

cleanipc <java instance no> remove

slibclean --> execute this command as root

After executing all the steps, then copy the kernel to run directory and then start sap.

With regards

Sudha

[Former Member]

Peter, thank you for your post. You solved my problem.

Sudha, thanks for the attempt, but I am not running UNIX/Linux (as listed above)