How To Upgrade To NW 7.3
How To Upgrade To NW 7.3
How To Upgrade To NW 7.3
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 6.1 6.1.1 6.1.2 6.1.2.1 6.1.2.2 6.1.3 6.1.3.1 6.2
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Overall Process at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reading Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Process Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checking Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Updates in an SAP System Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upgrade in an SAP System Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preparing SAP Solution Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAP Solution Manager Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation of Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuration of the Maintenance Optimizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintaining System Landscape Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 11 13 15 15 16 16 16
Selecting and Downloading Software Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional Information for All Usage Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Usage Type Process Integration: Specific Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taking Note of Activated ICM Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI: Task Related to Background Job SWEQSRV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Usage Type Adobe Document Services: Specific Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADS: Providing the JCE Jurisdiction Policy Files for Adobe Document Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Follow-Up Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 25 25 26 26 27 27 27 27
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6.2.1 6.2.1.1 6.2.1.2 6.2.1.3 6.2.1.4 6.2.1.5 6.2.1.6 6.2.1.7 6.2.2 6.2.2.1 6.2.2.2
Usage Type Process Integration: Specific Follow-Up Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI: Generating Profiles for Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Performing Follow-Up Activities for the System Landscape Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI: Importing ESR Content for Software Component SAP_BASIS . . . . . . . . . . PI: Creating a Destination from AS Java to AS ABAP for Integration Process Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI: Assigning New Product in SLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI: Rescheduling PI-Specific Background Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PI Adapter Engine: Creating a JCo Destination for the ExchangeProfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition Environment: Specific Follow-Up Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition Environment: Performing Follow-Up Activities for the System Landscape Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESR: Performing Follow-Up Activities for the Enterprise Services Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 1.1
1 Getting Started
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1 1.3
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You need an SAP Solution Manager 7.0 system with the latest available Support Package stack level and the SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer needs to be configured. 2. You register your systems in SLD and transfer the system data to SAP Solution Manager. 3. Optional: You run the landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager (add-on to SAP Solution Manager) which checks the system data that is maintained in the Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY). 4. You check system data using transaction SMSY and if necessary, update them. 5. As soon as the system data in SMSY is maintained correctly, you start a new maintenance transaction in SAP Solution Manager. 6. As part of the maintenance transaction, you have to select the required software units you want to update as well as the target Support Package level. 7. This selection is used by the Maintenance Optimizer to generate a stack configuration file and to calculate the software components as well as the Support Packages. 8. You download the files using the Download Manager. 9. You provide all downloaded files to the Software Update Manager. 10. You upgrade the system using the Software Update Manager.
1.3 Glossary
Here is a short overview of some technical terms used in this document:
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1 1.4 Term
The SAP Solution Manager System Landscape collects information about the SAP systems in the landscape. (SMSY is the name of the transaction in SAP Solution Manager.) SLD The System Landscape Directory is a Java software component that is installed on any SAP NetWeaver Java system. It can be configured to contain information about all the Java systems in a landscape. It can also contain information about ABAP systems. Usually you use one central SLD for your whole SAP system landscape. Maintenance Optimizer The SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer guides the user through maintenance procedures for any system in the landscape. Maintenance Optimizer is part of SAP Solution Manager and uses the information that is stored in the SAP Solution Manager System Landscape. Stack configuration file The stack configuration file is created by the Maintenance Optimizer and is systemspecific. Depending on the software components that are installed in a system, the Maintenance Optimizer calculates the required software components that have to be updated to reach a certain target configuration. SUM The Software Update Manager is the program that updates SAP systems. Product Used in SAP solutions. Generally speaking, a product fulfills business requirements. Product Version A concrete release of a given product. It bundles together software component versions made available at the same time for implementing a well defined scope of functionality. Product Instance A part of a product version and the smallest element for designing system landscapes. It groups technically dependent software component versions, which have to be installed and operated on a single Technical Syst Software Component (SC) Reusable component of the product. Technical System The runtime environment, in which SAP applications are executed. It is identified with a system identifier (SID). It must be assigned manually to a product system. Product System A group of technical systems, on which one product version is installed. Logical Component A group of technical systems, on which the same product instance has been installed. The technical systems have different roles, for example, development, test or production system. Landscape Patterns Describe how systems are used in a landscape. Landscape pattern hub: Technical system used by two or more product systems. Landscape pattern sidecar: Technical system that is used by a single product system and is not running on the ABAP stack. SMSY
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1 1.4
Upgrade Master Guide SAP NetWeaver 7.3 How to Upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 (this guide)
Individual documents and SAP Notes as referenced in this How-to Guide, for example, the Update Guide Update of SAP Systems Using the Software Update Manager 1.0
Provides general information about the upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 and all available upgrade paths. You are guided through the upgrade process with special focus on the SAP Solution Manager setup and use for your upgrade. You get product-specific information that is not covered by generic documentation and you are directed to separate guides with detailed information where necessary. You find detailed procedures for the individual steps required for the upgrade in these guides.
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Process Overview
2 Process Overview
This section contains a checklist with all the actions you need to perform. For more information, follow the links to the descriptions of the actions. Read this list completely before you begin with the activities to get a thorough understanding of the process and to plan your schedule and resources accordingly.
Checklist
VF1. You check the availability of Support Packages [page 11] as described in SAP Note 1528990 VF2. You plan the sequence of upgrades in your SAP system group [page 13] and provide additional temporary systems for dual maintenance. VF3. You update SAP Solution Manager [page 15] to at least SAP Solution Manager 7.0 Support Package Stack 23. VF4. You run transaction SOLMAN_SETUP after the SAP Solution Manager update. VF5. Optional: You install the landscape verification 1.0 add-on [page 16] on top of your SAP Solution Manager system. VF6. You configure the Maintenance Optimizer [page 16]. VF7. You check the composite SAP Note 1436297 for corrections for the maintenance optimizer and apply the required SAP Notes. VF8. Maintain your system landscape data in SAP Solution Manager [page 16]: 1. Make your systems known to SAP Solution Manager using SLD. 2. Optional: Run the landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager to check the entries in transaction SMSY. 3. Correct the SMSY entries, if necessary. VF9. You create a new maintenance transaction [page 21] in SAP Solution Manager and download the required software files and the stack configuration file. VF10. You prepare your system [page 25] for the upgrade as described in this guide and in the Update Guide Update of SAP Systems with Software Update Manager 1.0. This includes preparation activities for the hardware (for example, checking disk space requirements), activities for the database (for example, preparing free space, updating statistics, planning backups) and for the SAP system itself (for example, preparing the modification adjustment, checking the number of background processes). VF11. You perform the upgrade with the latest available Software Update Manager. VF12. You perform the follow-up activities as described in this guide and in the Update Guide Update of SAP Systems with Software Update Manager 1.0
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3 Planning
When you upgrade your SAP system, you have to include a minimum Support Package stack for the target release into the upgrade. If your source release system has the most recent Support Package Stack level, make sure that this equivalent Support Package stack for the target release is already released. Proceed as follows: 1. Check SAP Note 1528990 for the required Support Package stack. 2. Check the Support Package stack schedule on SAP Service Marketplace at http:// service.sap.com/sp-stacks SP Stack Schedule for release date of the Support Package Stack you require.
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Do not apply the latest Support Package stack to the system that you want to upgrade shortly before an upgrade.
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This section is relevant if you perform an enhancement package installation or SPS update. If you have an SAP system group consisting, for example, of a production system, a quality assurance system, and a development system, you must consider the entire system group regarding the sequence of updates. In addition, the update procedure influences the development activities, for example, dual maintenance might be temporarily necessary to ensure that your production system is supported with emergency corrections.
Procedure
Sequence of Updates
Update your systems in the same sequence in which you transport your modifications. Update each system with the same software packages.
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If your system group consists of three SAP systems and includes a quality assurance system that has been set up between the development and production system, work in the following order: 1. Development system 2. Quality assurance system 3. Production system
RECOMMENDATION
We strongly recommend that you perform transports only between systems of the same release or enhancement package level, and where the same business functions are activated. If you do not follow this recommendation, you do so at your own risk regarding potential problems. If you have made modifications to SAP objects that you want to retain, you must proceed in the above sequence. The version management functions of the SAP system record all the changes you make only in the system in which you made the modifications (the development system). Only this SAP system offers you optimal support when you adjust modifications. Changes made in the development system after the update can be transported automatically to your other SAP systems. If you use this procedure, you no longer need to perform time-consuming adjustments in the production system.
CAUTION
If you have modified SAP objects, make sure that you keep your development system. Do not copy your production system to your development system for test purposes.
Impact on Development
At a certain point in time during the update procedure, the development environment of the system that is updated is locked. Consider this development freeze in your project plan and inform your developers about it. To avoid the development system being unavailable during the update, we recommend that you add a temporary copy of your development system to your system landscape. This temporary development system can supply your production system with emergency corrections or support a phased development go-live after you have updated the original development system. You then have to make any corrections in the original development system as well as in the temporary development system. Make sure that your developers are notified about the dual maintenance.
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This section is only relevant if you perform a release upgrade. If you have more than one SAP system, for example, a production system, a quality assurance system, and a development system, you must consider the entire system group. Upgrade your systems in the same sequence in which you transport your modifications. In addition, the upgrade influences the development activities, for example, dual maintenance might be temporarily necessary to ensure that your production system is supported with emergency corrections.
Process
Sequence of Upgrades If your system group consists of three SAP systems and includes a quality assurance system that has been set up between the development and production system, work in the following order: 1. Development system 2. Quality assurance system 3. Production system If you have made modifications to SAP objects that you want to retain, you must proceed in the above sequence. The version management functions of the SAP system record all the changes you make only in the system in which you made the modifications (the development system). Only this SAP system offers you optimal support when you adjust modifications.
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Changes made in the development system after the upgrade can be transported automatically to your other SAP systems. If you use this procedure, you no longer need to perform time-consuming adjustments in the production system.
CAUTION
If you have modified SAP objects, make sure that you keep your development system. Do not copy your production system to your development system for test purposes. Impact on Development At a certain point in time during the upgrade, the development environment of the system that is upgraded is locked. Consider this development freeze in your project plan and inform your developers about it. To avoid the development system being unavailable during the upgrade, we recommend that you add a temporary copy of your development system to your system landscape. This temporary development system can supply your production system with emergency corrections or support a phased development go-live after you have upgraded the original development system. You then have to make any corrections in the original development system as well as in the temporary development system. Make sure that your developers are notified about the dual maintenance.
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The SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer plays a central role in the upgrade process. It is mandatory to use SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer for the calculation of the required upgrade packages, enhancement packages and Support Package stacks and for the creation of the stack configuration file (xml file). The upgrade program reads this stack configuration file and uses it as an input file for the upgrade.
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The following sections explain how to prepare SAP Solution Manager and the Maintenance Optimizer: 5G+ SAP Solution Manager Update [page 15] 5G+ Installation of Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager [page 16] 5G+ Configuration of the Maintenance Optimizer [page 16] 5G+ Maintaining System Landscape Information [page 16]
Upgrade Guide SAP Solution Manager 7.0 incl. Enhancement http://service.sap.com/instguides SAP Package 1 Components SAP Solution Manager Release 7.0 EHP1 Describes the upgrade from source releases SAP Solution Manager 3.1 and 3.2. You can include the installation of the required Support Package stack in the upgrade procedure. Update Guide SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP Solution http://service.sap.com/instguides SAP Manager 7.0 Components SAP Solution Manager Release 7.0 EHP1 Describes the update from source release SAP Solution Manager 7.0. You can include the installation of the required Support Package stack in the update procedure. Solution Operations Guide SAP Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1, http://service.sap.com/instguides SAP section Software Change Management Components SAP Solution Manager Release 7.0 EHP1
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Preparing SAP Solution Manager Installation of Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager Available at...
Related Documents
Describes the actions required after the update to SAP Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1.
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Register all systems that you want to update in your SLD. In case of a dual-stack system, you have to register both the ABAP stack and the Java stack.
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Depending on your applications, this can either be the SLD of your SAP Solution Manager system (if there are no dependencies of production runtime systems), or you have separate SLD systems for production and non-production use (default recommendation). If you use a central runtime SLD, distribute the data of all technical systems that are registered in the central SLD, from the central SLD to the development SLDs and to the local SLD in SAP Solution Manager. For more information about the SLD topology options and synchronization, see the Planning Guide System Landscape Directory available at http://sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-sld. To register Java systems, you use the Visual Administrator, or, as of SAP NetWeaver 7.1, the NetWeaver Administrator. To register the ABAP system, you use transaction RZ70. For more information about the registration of systems, see the SAP Library for your source release:
Release SAP Library Paths
SAP NetWeaver http://help.sap.com/nw70 SAP NetWeaver Library <Language> SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Solution Lifecycle Management by Key Capability Software Life Cycle Management 7.0 System Landscape Directory Configuring Systems to Connect to SLD SAP NetWeaver http://help.sap.com/ SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver Process Integration SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Library <Language> SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Library Process Function-Oriented View Application Server Infrastructure Configuring, Working with and Integration 7.1 Administering System Landscape Directory Configuring Systems to Connect to the SLD and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 EHP1 SAP NetWeaver Connecting the system to the SLD is part of the initial system configuration as described Composition at: http://help.sap.com/nwce71/ SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 (EHP 1) Library Environment Administrator's Guide Configuration of SAP NetWeaver CE Initial System Configuration 7.1 and SAP Configuring System Landscape Directory NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EHP1 SAP NetWeaver Connecting the system to the SLD is part of the initial system configuration as described Composition at: http://help.sap.com/nwce72 SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.2 Library Environment Administrator's Guide Configuration of SAP NetWeaver CE Configuring Mandatory Components 7.2 Configuring Application Server Java Mandatory Configuration Tasks Configuring System Landscape Directory
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If the registration was successful, both the ABAP system and the Java system appear in the SLD under Technical Systems. To transfer the data from the SLD to the SAP Solution Manager system landscape, schedule SLD update jobs in the SAP Solution Manager transaction SMSY_SETUP.
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For more information, see the SAP Solution Manager Library at http://help.sap.com SAP Solution Manager 7.0 <Language> Basic Settings Solution Manager System Landscape Set Up Automatic Data Capture for System Landscape .
3n<N0? Capturing System Data Using SLD Running the Landscape Verification 1.0
Running the landscape verification 1.0 is an optional step. This tool checks how your systems are maintained in the SAP Solution Manager system. If it detects any inconsistencies, you are prompted to correct existing entries or enter missing data. The tool provides you with information about maintaining the data. To start the landscape verification, call transaction LVSM in SAP Solution Manager. For more information about the landscape verification, choose the Help link from within the application.
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When your product systems are known in SAP Solution Manager, you have to check and maintain the system data, and add your system to a logical component and to a solution. 1. In transaction SMSY, choose Landscape Components Product System <System> . 2. Check whether the product version is correct. The product version is displayed in the right pane below the name of your system. 3. Choose the Selection of Product Instances tab and check that everything that is installed in your system is flagged as Relevant. Make sure that no instance is marked as relevant that is not installed in your system, as this would lead to the installation of unwanted software components in your system.
NOTE
You can only select one ABAP instance as relevant. You have to flag further ABAP instances as Also Installed in Relevant ABAP Product Instance. For more information about selecting the instances and required settings, see SAP Note 1344564 and SAP Note 1429764. Create the logical component as follows: 1. In transaction SMSY, choose System Groups and Logical Components. 2. In the context menu of Logical Components, choose Create New Logical Component. 3. Enter your system data. The name of your logical component must start with Z.... Assign the system to the logical component. In the Current System Assignments of the newly created logical component, add your systems with the appropriate roles (such as Development System or Production System).
RECOMMENDATION
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We recommend that you add all systems of one product to one logical component. This means that you create one logical component and add the development system, the quality assurance system, and the production system to the same logical component. Optional: Add the product system to a solution. It is no longer mandatory to create a solution and to add your product system to a solution. However, if you already have a solution, then add your product system to it. When you later create a maintenance transaction, you can select this solution and thus restrict the number of product systems displayed. 1. Call transaction SOLUTION_MANAGER and create a solution, if it does not yet exist. 2. Choose Solution Landscape and Solution Landscape Maintenance. 3. Add your SAP system to the solution as follows: 1. Change to edit mode. 2. Place the cursor on a new line in the Logical Component column. 3. Use the input help to select your system from the list (product, logical component). 4. Choose Complete System Data Replication.
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Create a maintenance transaction in SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer to calculate the required software packages and the stack configuration file.
Procedure
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In SAP Solution Manager, start transaction solman_workcenter and choose Change Management Choose New Maintenance Transaction. If you have maintained a solution, choose the solution for which you want to download the software packages. Select the system(s) that you want to include in the maintenance transaction. The product version dropdown box displays all product versions of the selected solution and, depending on the product version, the systems are displayed. You can run a maintenance transaction for one or multiple systems of one product version of exactly one solution.
RECOMMENDATION
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Create a single stack configuration file for all systems of a track (development system, quality assurance system, and production system). In addition, run your Maintenance Optimizer transactions for every affected system at the same point in time, ideally also in the same maintenance transaction. That way you make sure that all systems are upgraded with exactly the same software. If you run the same Maintenance Optimizer transaction at different points in time, the Maintenance Optimizer might include slightly different software. This is due to the fact that SAP changes Support Package stacks whenever a critical issue in the currently delivered software arises. ChooseCalculate Files Automatically as the file selection mode.
RECOMMENDATION
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Check the Log tab regularly to see if any severe issues have occurred. In case you are unsure, create a customer message and assign it to component SV-SMG-MAI (Maintenance Optimizer). In addition, the Systems tab provides valuable information about the systems to be upgraded. Select the Upgrade update option. Select the target stack.
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8. Choose any additional Java instances that you want to install. 9. Check and confirm the target constellation for your system. 10. Select any add-ons that you want to install as part of this maintenance transaction. Maintenance Optimizer offers you to include add-ons directly into your maintenance operation so you can make use of the same downtime window instead of installing the add-ons separately afterwards. When you select an add-on, you can choose the system on which the add-on will be installed using the Assign System link. 11. Select the files that correspond to the combination of your operating system and database. In addition, select the files for SAP IGS and SAP HOST AGENT. If you run application servers on different operating systems, make sure that you also include their kernels files. When you slide with the mouse pointer over the kernel files, a quick info text displays for which system the kernel files have been calculated. 12. Select the stack-independent files and files for the add-on upgrade or add-on installation. In most cases, the stack-independent files include a SPAM/SAINT update for the target release. If you have decided to install new add-ons, Maintenance Optimizer displays now the corresponding files.
NOTE
The stack-independent files are not automatically included in the upgrade of your system. You have to include them manually during the Configuration roadmap step of the SAP Enhancement Package Installer. 13. Decide about the stack-dependent files.
RECOMMENDATION
We recommend you keep the selection. However, you can deselect any Support Package that you do not want to be applied to your system. Components of an SP Stack that are not used for productive use do not need to be patched during the implementation of the SP Stack, unless there is a technical or logical dependency to the used components. The Add Java Patches pushbutton allows you to search for appropriate Java patches and add them to the download basket. As these patches are not added to the stack configuration file, they are not implemented during this maintenance transaction. Their implementation is a separate step afterwards. 14. To download the files, select whether you want to download them with the Download Basket or with the Software Lifecycle Manager (only available if configured). 15. To access the stack configuration file, choose the Stack Files tab.
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16. Download the files. We recommended starting the download shortly after you have run the maintenance transaction.
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6 6.1
Upgrade Preparations
6 Upgrade
To perform the upgrade, you use the Software Update Manager. The upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 from SAP NetWeaver 7.1 and higher is technically an update, comparable with an enhancement package installation. Therefore, the Software Update Manager is used which internally calls the known SAP Enhancement Package Installer. General preparation and follow-up activities as well as the handling of the Software Update Manager are described in the document Update Guide Update of SAP Systems Using the Software Update Manager 1.0 available at http://service.sap.com/upgradenw73. In addition, you have to perform preparations and follow-up activities specific to your usage type. These specific actions are described in the following sections.
CAUTION
You have to perform both the general preparation activities as well as the usage type specific preparations before you can start the Software Update Manager. Make sure you start with these preparations in good time. You can also consider performing these preparations in parallel to the preparation of SAP Solution Manager and the download of the required software packages and the stack configuration file.
SAP Note 1390477 Additional info for upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 contains supplementing information about the upgrade.
Supported Source Releases
The upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 with the Software Update Manager is supported from the following source releases: d& SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.2 d& SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 and 7.1 including enhancement package 1 d& SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 and 7.1 including enhancement package 1 d& SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 and 7.1 including enhancement package 1
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For information about which operating system and database versions are currently supported, see the Product Availability Matrix on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/PAM.
Free Space Requirements
Make sure, that at least the following free space is available in the system that you want to upgrade:
Update Directory Download Directory DIR_TRANS Shadow System 10 15 GB 5 GB 3 GB Approximately the space required for your source release instance, that is the size of the following directory: ?(r Unix: usr/sap/<sapsid> ?(r Windows: <drive>:\usr\sap\<sapsid> ?(r IBM i: usr/sap/<sid> Approximately 50 GB
If you are using a standalone Advanced Adapter Engine, you first have to upgrade the Process Integration system where the Advanced Adapter Engine belongs to. ?(r PI: Taking Note of Activated ICM Services [page 26] ?(r PI: Task Related to Background Job SWEQSRV [page 27]