kernel on application server displays lower version than CI

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are on ECC6.0 and most of our servers are on AIX. We have two application servers that are on Windows 2003. When you check the system -> status on the windows application servers the kernel version listed is 52. When you check system -> status on the CI or any other AIX application server the kernel version listed is 83. When we do a disp+work -v on the windows application servers from the command line it shows the kernel version to be at level 83.

Does anyone have any ideas what would cause this?

Regards,

Rick

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Please check the following environment variable in windows, then accordingly replace your new kernel.

SAPEXE

Regards,

-Sunil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sunil,

Thank you for your reply. We do not even have a SAPEXE environment variable on the system. Can you explain your answer further?

Regards,

Rick

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

can you please search disp+work.exe on windows system and let me know the location of the files. and check the version of both files.

Regards,

-Sunil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

can you perform R3trans -d from windows server command prompt and go through the trans.log file. The log file will have the infromation of kernel location.

Regards,

-Sunil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Just sync up the kernels and you'd be fine.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rick,

During startup of a homogenous environment, the program SAPCPE synchronizes the appropriate executables between the central instance and all application servers. This ensures that they are all on the same kernel level. In a heterogeneous environment this is not possible, as the kernel executables are operating system specific. When a kernel update is performed in a heterogeneous environment, one must remember to update the heterogeneous kernel executables separately. So, what appears to have happened in your environment is that the AIX kernel on the CI was updated -- and this was automatically populated to the AIX application servers by SAPCPE -- but the kernel on the Windows application servers (that required a manual update) was not.

Best Regards,

Matt

[Former Member]

Thanks to everyone for your response. Points have been awarded to all. I will mark this as answered and update the kernel as soon as possible in our environment.

Regards,

Rick