Group sapsys in installation note for Netweaver 7.0 SR3

[Former Member]

In note 1108852 it says the group 'sapsys' should be created before the install to prevent the FCO-00011 error. Are they talking about a user group? I am doing a domain install without domain admin privilages on Windows 2003. Is this a domain user group and if so what users are in the group. If this note is not referring to a user group what is it referring to?

[Former Member]

The error is actually to do with java's ctc scripts. The fix that support gave me 1094628 describes the issue but the solution does not fix the problem. Heavy sigh. It stops at 'Preparing to install minimal configuration' step.

[Former Member]

Did you hit retry or did you stop sapinst and

started it again and continued with "continue old installation" ?

Sometimes things can be cached in sapinst and a restart of the program is needed.

[Former Member]

I would love to ignore it but the installl won't finish until I resolve the issue. I am just installing SolMan on Windows. The difference is that I am not a domain admin in the clients network. They created the users. I am waiting, waiting and waiting on SAP to resolve the issue. Meanwhile, I am looking every where for a clue. Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the input.

[Former Member]

The users and groups you need in the domain are the following:

Group SAP_<SID>_GlobalAdmin

User SAPService<SID>

User <sid>adm

So, if you install system id QAS, the users and group are:

Group SAP_QAS_GlobalAdmin

User SAPServiceQAS

User qasadm

There's no need for a sapsys group.

Then, on the server two local groups are created

(for SAP that is, if you are running Oracle more groups are added):

SAP_LocalAdmin

SAP_<SID>_LocalAdmin

According to the example above:

SAP_LocalAdmin

SAP_QAS_LocalAdmin

Could it be something else which is wrong ?

Have you had a look in the installation directory

For example in an NW 7.0 installation for Windows and MS-SQL:

C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\NW04S\SYSTEM\MSS\CENTRAL\AS

Sort the files in order by date and seeif you can find any clue in the files.

[Former Member]

Even though the heading says the note is for Windows, this specific part is for Unix only.

In Unix you have the user groups sapsys and sapdba.

the user group sapsys is more or less equal to SAP_SID_LocalAdmin.

Just skip that part of the note.

As a matter of fact, the very next block is also about Unix and users/usergroups.

So skip the blocks starting with:

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