Operations ISO-SAP

Kernel Upgrade on P10s V1.0

INFORMATIONS ON DOCUMENT’S FOLLOW-UP:

Historic

Date Version Status Comments

2008/11/2 1.0 Initial Version
4

Realisation

Company Author
ADITI SHUKLA

Validation

Post Name Date Comments / Signature

SDM MANISH SALVI

Target People

FR-ISO-SAP

Summary

This documentation describes all the steps needed to perform Kernel upgrade of P10s SAP
system.

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1.0 Short Description

The kernel is the central program that is essential to the SAP system applications. The
advantage is that you gain the latest kernel, incorporating the most up-to-date program
patches and other improvements.

Before upgrading the kernel, we should have the following information with us:
- Operating System
- Database with release
- Operating system environment (32 bit or 64 bit)
- Current SAP Kernel Release with patch number
The above information is needed to download the appropriate kernel patch.

2.0 Pre-actions for Kernel Upgrade

Download appropriate kernel patch:

Example:
check “disp+work" for P10s system (hostname delaix08) and check the current kernel level.
Its current level is 139.
We have following existing kernel details.
OS: AIX 5.3
Database: Oracle 9.2
Kernel 6.40 64-BIT
Kernel Patch number 139
And we want to upgrade kernel patch from 139 to 196.

Note: Check the online and offline backup schedule and if required unscheduled the
backup. If required contact concerned team for the same.

3.0 Kernel Upgrade Procedure:

3.1 Login as <sid>adm into P10s server i.e. delaix08

>cd /sapmnt/P10

> cp –Rp exe exe_old_<ddmmyyyy>

3.2 Copy the exe directory of P10 (delaix07) to P10s ( delaix08) using :
scp/sapmnt/P10/exe <target_machine>:/sapmnt/P10/exe

3.3.1 Run saproot.sh script on P10s (delaix08)

Run ./saproot.sh as root user in order to retain the permission

a. Login as root
b. cd /sapmnt/P10/exe
./saproot.sh P10

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3.3.2 Now in order to verify that the number of files transferred from P10 exe to P10s exe
run chksum command. The cksum command reads the files specified by the File
parameter and calculates a 32-bit checksum Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and the
byte count for each file. Below commands should give the same output in both the
servers (i.e. in delaix07 & delaix08)

cksum /sapmnt/P10/exe – on P10(delaix07)

And

cksum /sapmnt/P10/exe – on P10s (delaix08)

4.0. Post Actions Of Kernel Upgrade:

4.1 Check permission on the necessary files:

Check the permission for BRtools as well as for saposcol also and compare it with
stored in backup exe folder.

4.2 Use disp+work to check the latest version of Kernel as P10s SAP system cannot be
started.
4.2 To enable the backup contact the concerned team (ISO UNIX) for scheduling the
backup.