Background Installations/Updates on UNIX 

Use

You are using the program SDBINST to install or update installation profiles or individual components of the SAP DB software on UNIX. You specify all required information on the command line, together with the command for starting the installation program.

You must stop the program V Server before you update the database software. Remember that this interrupts the communication between the clients and all local database instances.

Conventions

Variables

Prerequisites

·         You are logged on to your server as the root user.

·         You have unpacked the required software (Unpacking the Software on UNIX).

Preparations

If the following conditions apply to your system, you must perform the accompanying steps before a new installation:

·        The installation program enters the services sql6, sql30 and sapdbni72 in the file /etc/services, if they do not already exist there. If these services are managed centrally for your system on your network (NIS), you must enter them there as follow:
sql6      7210/tcp
sql30     7200/tcp
sapdbni72 7269/tcp

·        You must specify the group and owner of the SAP DB database software for the installation. If this information is managed centrally in the network, you must create it there.

·        If the path <independent_program_path>/bin is not yet entered in the environment variable PATH, enter it now.

Procedure

       1.      If you want to update an existing SAP DB installation,

¡        Stop each SAP DB database instance assigned to the installation directory that you want to update with the command
dbmcli –d <database_name> -u <dbm_user>,<password> db_offline

¡        Stop V Server ( Xserver service) with the command
x_server stop

For a new installation, start at step 2.

       2.      Start the installation/update process for the SAP DB OLTP software with the following command:
./SDBINST [-b] -profile <inst_profile> [,<inst_profile2>...]| -package <package_name>[,<package_name2>...] -indep_data <independent_data_path> -indep_prog <independent_program_path> -depend <dependent_path> -o <owner> -g <group>

 

Start the installation/update process for the liveCache software (in SAP APO systems only) with the following command:

¡        For the installation profile APO liveCache
./SDBINST [-b] -profile "APO LiveCache" -indep_data <independent_data_path> -indep_prog <independent_program_path> -depend <dependent_path> -o <owner> -g <group>

¡        For the SAP DB software component APO LC APPS (from APO Version 4.0) or APO COM
./SDBINST [-b] -package "APO LC APPS" | "APOCOM" -depend <dependent_path>
 

For an explanation of the options, see Overview of the Options for the Program SDBINST.

You must place any names of installation profiles and SAP DB software components that contain blanks in double quotation marks.

You do not need to specify the options –indep_prog, -indep_data and –depend for certain installation profiles or SAP DB components. If you do specify them, the system ignores them. See the overview of the options for more information.

You see a message about the successful completion of the installation.

Result

The software packages are installed and registered. You can check the result of your installation using the log (Logging).

You can now create new database instances with the Database Manager

(See:

·        Creating a Database Instance in Database Manager CLI: SAP DB 7.4 or

·        the Web DBM documentation.)