sap directory structure and its importance

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Raj

SAP Directory structure is a files and folder locations in a computer after
installation of sap system. we have to understand this directory structure to
understand the concept of TMS, PATCH Management and System profiles.
There are 3 folders resides in 4.7 system are sapinst, usr and oracle. sapinst
always will be located in c:\sapinst and oracle and usr directories will be located
in either D: or E: according to the selection of drives while installation. There are
some important directories to understand in sap system to do basis
administration in cool manner. The directories and its importance are
1. C:\sapinst (4.7) or C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir (ECC 6.0): This
directory stores all installation logs along with DLLs and XMLs
2. \usr\sap: usr stands for unix system resource and the shared names of
SAP are sapmnt and saploc. sapmnt is used to by sap server to access
system specific infromation and saploc is used by sap server to access
local information
3. /usr/sap/trans: This directory is ment for transport mechanism
4. /usr/sap/trans/bin: This directory stores all the configuration of TMS in the
form of TP_DOMAIN_SID.PFL and this file is very important for entire
transport mechanism
5. /usr/sap/trans/cofiles: This dirctory is used by profile to store the
information about released or exported transport request in the form of
k<no>sid
6. /usr/sap/trans/data: Data folder stores the physical program or table in the
form of r<no>sid once the transport is released from the system
7. /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in: EPS stands for Electronic Parcel Service and in
stores all the uncared or unzipped patches which are downloaded from
service market place
8. /user/sap/sid/DVEBMGS/work: Work directory stores all the logs of the
work processes
9. /usr/sap/sid/sys/exe/run: RUN directory stores all the executables through
which sap functions and it is called as kernel directory
10. /usr/sap/sid/sys/profile: These are called system profiles. There are 3
system profiles. They are start, default and instance profiles and are in the
form of DEFAULT.PFL, START_DVEBMGS00_Hostname and
DVEBMGS00_Hostname
Transport = Export + Copy + Import