BOBJ On Linux Red-Hat 5.4 WORKING

I just want to share… I just Installed BOBJ 3.1 over GNU/Linux Red-Hat 5.4, using MySQL 5.0XX Data Base, it was a little trike at the beginning but after the 3th installation, no problems at all, now we are working on the Designer, Xcelsius, CrystalReports and all the tools to put all things working together. I try over CentOS 5.4 and it works fine ( A laptop Intel Core 2 duo 4GB RAM ), just remember to install the libraries for the Operating System, the ENV variables and all will work. At the end I made 35 Installations under different scenarios like: Fresh installs, unpatched O.S. installs, etc…

Finally, we got it, is Alive ! from BASIS view no problems at all, I’m hardly working in get a maximum SAP performance, it is a hard work, they are a lot of parameters involved. Additionally I’ve a close eye at EarlyWatch into the SAP SOLMAN, which is very very nice.
Now our internal users ( Key Users ) are finishing the operational setups, they now understand why IT areas spend a lot of time working late at nights fixing issues that can not been resolved during the day… I hope this can change their minds and understand why we do what we do, not without mention that we are seating for ours reading logs to keep application/systems up & running

Updating a SAP Kernel is just easy… if all goes good ‘course !!

The 1th things that you must keep in mind is … what O.S. are you running,  the architecture, the actual SAP Kernel version, patch level of it… but BEWARE, STOP and make this Question to your self Why I’m going to do this Kernel Update/Upgrade ? … if the answer is convinced enough just doit !!
Ok, This is the way:

1- Go into Sap Service Market Place www.service.sap.com
2- Go to the Download section ( Search for kernel releases )
3- Choose your architecture, and O.S., then choose your kernel and patch level
4- Download them ! ( Remember always TWO FILES !!!:  SAPEXE*****.SAR & SAPEXEDB******.SAR )

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Hi there folks, we got it ! this is the procedure

1- BACKUP all the BIN files and working directories for your BD instances

2- BACKUP all the databases, COMPLETE BACKUP !!

3- We where using MaxDB Ver. 7.7.04.028 and the upgrade is 7.7.06.17… so …. go to sap services and download the patches & upgrades for your O.S. and architecture in my case, Power 5, Intel x86_64, Intel x86_64.

4- Got into the servers via SSH ( ‘course ) and become a valid user to stop sap.

5- Get root and deflate the file you just download ( SAPCAR -xvf FILE.XXXX.XXXX.XXXX.SAR )
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Hi there all, we are setting up SAP BOBJ ( CLICK HERE 4 MORE INFO ), this tool help the directives to take decisions about the hole company, examples here:

Click into the Graph to see how it changes
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Folks, we are in the middle of a silence and quiet protest, to illustrate what I’m talking about see the next series of pictures.

Here we are looking for a place to go and get a hair cut ( 16 Nov 2009 )

Janux was the 1th one to get cut !!
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“TOP” command during R3/ECC/SAP installation … check the next image, all 50GB of RAM total consumed by installer.

top.sap.r6.ecc

Insane requirement during SAP installation… check the next image SAP install is asking for 145 GB of SWAP ! !, come one SAP ( Linus guys ) upgrade your manuals, requirements and installation scripts. 2xRAM is OBSOLETE !

Min.swap.rew.by.sapinst.

We are going to install and configure SAP ERP ECC 6.0 over RHEL 5.3, the database will be a version that SAP get from MySQL that is a kind of Super MySQL version of it.

This adventure will be cool and I try post what’s going on durin this 5~6 mo/ of work.

Hi there all, aleux Mexico is doing a nice team work we are 3 complete deep into this business, and all we have the same goal !! To have our own CO. we want to prepare the future.
In other hands, this past 3 months has been nice…. not what we anticipate but nice, we want to do a grate April and brake the past 3 months in cash flow, so we are ready for projects, and new adventures.

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