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Step 1: Preparation Steps
The SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP system which is used in this course has to be installed on a 64 bit Linux Operating System (OS). To enable also users working with Windows or Mac OS X operation system to install the needed ABAP system, we describe here how to make use of VirtualBox, where the ABAP system then is installed and run on a Linux Virtual Machine (VM).
Hint: If you have already a 64 bit Linux OS then you can skip the described downloads and installation of VirtualBox (1.1 and 2.1) and Linux (1.2 and 2.3) and just download the ABAP installation files (1.3).
System Requirements:
Make sure that you have on your PC/Laptop or Mac:
The tutorial has been tested to work for Windows and on Mac OS X. Most of the written tutorial was created on Windows, whereas the video presentation was done on an Mac OS X.
As the some of the installation files are very large (> several GB) we recommend to start the download first for all files, before you start the installation process.
1.1 Download Oracle VM VirtualBox
1.2 Download Linux OS openSUSE
1.3 Download NetWeaver AS ABAP
Warning: Please check the file size of all the parts what you have downloaded. Each part file is around 1.5 GB (except for the last part).
Please check that you have extracted the rar files correctly. The total size of the extracted folder of the Netweaver AS ABAP Installation files is around 12+ GB. If you have partially downloaded or partially extracted the ABAP files and if you continue the installation, you will run into installation errors.
1.4 Replace the license file for the Sybase ASE Database
Hint: Since the release of this course, the license for the ASE database that comes with the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.50 SP02 has expired. Before you start the installation, it is therefore important that you exchange a file in the NetWeaver installation folder.
Step 2: Install Linux VM in VirtualBox2.1 Install VirtualBox
2.2 Create new Linux VM in VirtualBox
Result: A new VM entry with Name SAP NetWeaver 7.50 SP02 is created on the left side of the VirtualBox Manager.
2.3 Set boot installation file for Linux VM
Result: The VM has been prepared to boot from the specified openSUSE DVD Image file as soon as it is started as described in the next section.
2.4 Install openSUSE Linux OS on the VM
2.5 Create VM Snapshot
Having successfully installed and set up your openSUSE Linux operating system, you should create a VM snapshot of this initial state. You may revert to this snapshot, in case something should go wrong or break in the VM.
Result: The VM snapshot Initial Installation Snapshot has been created and saved.
Step 3: VM Configurations - Proxy, Internet, shared Clipboard3.1 Configure Internet Proxy
In case you are using a proxy to connect to the internet, you have to configure it as follows; otherwise you may continue with Step 3.2.
3.1.1 VM VirtualBox Setting
3.1.2 YaST Proxy Setting
YaST is the installation and configuration tool for openSUSE. It can be used to configure your entire system, network, system services and security settings. It may also install new software packages from the internet. Hence you might need to set up a proxy for YaST.
3.1.2 Firefox Proxy Setting
3.2 Test Internet Connection
3.3 Enable bi-directional shared clipboard
Before you continue with the ABAP installation specific steps, you should enable the bi-directional shared clipboard as follows. This option allows you to use clipbord contents (copy & paste) from your host OS (Windows / Mac OS X) in the VM (openSUSE) and vice-versa. This should make things much easier when you copy and paste contents from this tutorial into the Linux console.
Hint: With this enabled bi-directional option you can now copy and paste from your host operating system to the VM image window and vice versa. This is very helpful as you can copy e.g. needed command lines from the tutorial description (web page on your host OS) into a bash window of your VM window.
Step 4: VM Preparations for ABAP Installation4.1 Enable Network Access to Linux VM
4.2 Setup UUIDD Service
The UUID daemon is used to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). The SAP NetWeaver backend system needs this service to create unique IDs.
4.2.1 Install UUIDD
Hint: UUIDD installation will only work if the VM has internet access.
4.2.2 Start UUIDD
The installed UUIDD service will now be started by a command window called Konsole. Many installation and configuration steps can and will be accessed from this command window in this tutorial.
4.3 Prepare Network Setup
The SAP NetWeaver backend expects the hostname of its system to be called vhcalnplci. We will now change the hostname of the openSUSE system accordingly, as this is more convinient than to reconfigure the SAP NetWeaver backend system.
4.4 Mount netweaver Installation Folder in Linux VM
To start the installation of the SAP NetWeaver backend system, you need to allow the openSUSE to access the netweaver installation folder which resides in you host operating system (your main Windows / Mac OS) to get access to extracted ABAP installation files.
4.4.1 Setup a Shared Folder
4.4.2 Mount netweaver folder to the Shared Folder
Now you have prepared everything for the SAP NetWeaver installation.
Step 5: Install SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP on Linux VM
In the previous steps you have downloaded, extracted and mounted the installation files for a SAP NetWeaver system to the openSUSE Linux running inside of your local machine. You will now install the system in this Linux OS. Please note that this is a specially prepared and simplified installation of a SAP NetWeaver backend, and that the installation process of a live and productive instance requires more expertise on how to best tweak the system settings. Please also be aware that the RAM settings we allocated in the VM are very minimalistic, so the system might react slower that you would expect it to run, if it were installed properly on a dedicated server.
Note: Since the course was released, the Sybase ASE Database license has expired. Please follow the steps described in step 1.4 of this tutorial to replace the license file before you start the installation of SAP NetWeaver.
Step 6: Run and Test SAP NetWeaver AS ABAPSap Easy Access Tutorial6.1 Start NetWeaver AS ABAP
With the following steps you make sure that the AS ABAP is up and running.
6.1.1 Startup ABAP
6.1.2 Create a new VM Snapshot
After the installation of the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP finished successfully, you should create a snapshot to preserve this state as you already did after the Linux installation. You can then always revert to this snapshot VM state, in case your VM image should get broken for whatever reason.
Result: ABAP installation snapshot has been created.
6.2 Setup SAP GUI Client
The SAP GUI (also known as: SAP Logon or SAP Front End) is the front-end application to connect to SAP backend systems like the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP.
Hint: If you have already a SAP GUI / SAP Logon installed on your computer, you may use it and skip the installation and continue with step 6.2.2.
6.2.1 Install SAP GUI Client
Hint: If you encounter any issues, you may also refer to the SAP Front End Installation Guide.
In your host OS (Windows or Mac OS) navigate to the location where you extracted the NetWeaver ABAP installation files and open the folder client.
For Windows:
Result: The /SAP/FrontEnd/SAPgui/saplogon.exe file inside Windows program files folder has been created to launch SAP Logon application. A shortcut to SAP Frontend is placed in your Windows Start menu.
For Mac OS:
6.2.2 Add SAP NetWeaver to SAP GUI and Log On
For Windows:
Hint (optional): The Favorites links like Launchpad as you can see in the before opened SAP Easy Access page will only work, if you add the following entry to the
hosts file in your host operating system (Windows: open the file C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts in a text editor with administrator privileges): 127.0.0.1 vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain
For Mac OS X:
Hint (optional): The Favorites links like Launchpad as you can see in the before opened SAP Easy Access page will only work, if you add the following entry to the
hosts file in your host operating system. (Mac OS: open Terminal and type sudo nano /etc/hosts): 127.0.0.1 vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain
6.3 Install SAP System License
To work with the installed local SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP system you have to request a Demo license for free as described in the following steps.
Sap Easy Access Screen6.3.1 Install License
6.3.2 Create a new VM Snapshot
After you added the license to your SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP, you should again create a VM Snapshot in order to preserve this state.
Result:ABAP with License snapshot has been created.
6.4 Shutdown VM with NetWeaver AS ABAP
When you are not working on the course, like probably now as week 1 almost finished, it is recommended to shutdown the openSUSE VM in which the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP is running.
Note: First reason for this is that the SAP NetWeaver system might take a considerable amount of system resources on your host OS machine. The second reason is that the shutdown and restart with snapshot procedure of the VM with the ABAP system is sometimes the best way to get out of certain SAP NetWeaver related problems (e.g. SAP NetWeaver processes does not result in GREEN status after executing ‘startup ALL’_).
Shutdown of the VM should be done in two steps, first stopping the ABAP and secondly closing the VM:
6.4.1 Stopping NetWeaver AS ABAP
6.4.2 Closing VM
6.5 Starting VM with NetWeaver AS ABAP
After you have stopped the ABAP and closed the VM as described in above section 6.4 we now describe how you launch the VM, start the NetWeaver AS ABAP there and verify that the system processes are running as they should.
We will describe this startup of the VM from the latest existing snapshot you created.
Hint: Keep in mind that in later weeks of this course you will be pointed to this How to start a VM section. Then you might already have another latest snapshot that the one after described below.
6.5.1 Starting up VM from latest Snapshot
6.5.2 Starting up NetWeaver AS ABAP on running VM
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