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SAP Basis - Kernel Upgrade and Patching - Tutorialspoint
SAP Basis - Kernel Upgrade and Patching - Tutorialspoint
SAP Basis - Kernel Upgrade and Patching - Tutorialspoint
Kernel is an executable program that exists between SAP Applications and Operating System. It
consists of executable program under the path — "/sapmnt/<SID>/exe" for UNIX and
\usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\run Windows. It starts and stops application services such as message
server, dispatcher, etc.
In Kernel upgrade, new .exec files replace old executable files in SAP system. To check the current
version, use transaction code — SM51 > Go to Release Notes.
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In UNIX, use disp+work − version to see information on the current Kernel version.
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Step 4 − Select the Kernel version and download the files as per the Operating System – Windows,
Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
Step 1 − Create a directory with enough disk space and enter the name of directory.
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Step 2 − Copy the upgrade files SAPEXEDB.SAR & SAPEXE.SAR files to the new directory at OS
level.
Step 3 − To check directory, use 'pwd' to ensure you are in the same directory.
STep 4 − Now, uncompress .SAR files by sapcar exe.
SAPCAR –xvf sapexe.SAR
SAPCAR –xvf sapexedb.SAR
Step 5 − To take backup of existing Kernel, you have to create one more directory with the name
"exe_old<ddmmyy>" and take backup of existing Kernel file.
Step 6 − To perform upgrade, stop the SAP application. You don’t need to shut down the database
for Kernel upgrade but you need to stop the SAP application using this command — stopsap r3.
Step 7 − Copy the files from the new kernel directory exe_new<ddmmyy → to the existing kernel
directory exe.
Step 10 − Login to the operating system as root specific to UNIX. Execute the script in Kernel
directory — ./saproot.sh <SID>
You use this to assign correct permissions to all the executable programs in the kernel such as br*
file etc.
Step 11 − Start SAP Applications using this command — startsap r3.
Step 12 − If you run Transaction SM52, you can see current kernel version level.
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