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SAP Senior Basis Consultant Vacancy

sapbasisadmin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:49:36 +0000

My friend asked me to post this vacancy,

SAP Senior Basis consultant urgently needed.
Requirements :
- 2 to 3 full life cycle projects
- Have a good experience on new dimension system like BW, CRM, SRM, Portal, XI/PI, Solution Manager.
- Attractive Salary and other Benefits
- Good Communication skills
- Graduate from reputable university
- More than 3 years of working experience in related field.
- Permanent Position
- Location : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

MM, SD, WM, BW, HR Senior Consultant are also welcome.
If you are interested, please send your current salary, expected salary and resume to basis.mysap@gmail.com
Only short list candidate will be contacted

Niping Syntax

sapbasisadmin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:13:02 +0000

Question : what is the syntax of niping command?

Answer : to get an idea of using niping command you can type niping without parameter.

Niping

This article is to answer guest question about using niping. Thanks to vinvk for the question.
Niping is a testing program developed by SAP to enhance TCP/IP and UDP layer function. Network Interface (NI) is used by SAPRouter and all SAP programs to provide independency of various communication. The enhanced TCP/IP and UDP Protocol is called SAP Protocol which provide one field length more and error information. This program simply send request to the server, then read the reply from server. Niping mostly uses to test connection to SAP server with or without SAP Router. Niping also provides enhancement communication through the firewall or proxy server.

Niping syntax

Example niping command (with or without SAProuter),
host1 : saprouter -r //start saprouter in host1
host2 : niping -s //this will emulate a test server
host3 : niping -c -H host2 //this will test connection to host2 without SAProuter
host3 : niping -c -H /H/host1/H/host2 //this will test connection to host2 with SAProuter

niping -t //this is for self test which will display a result *** SELFTEST O.K. *** if connection OK

VMWare Server things

sapbasisadmin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:36:51 +0000

VMware

Finally, I’m able to run VMWare on my Notebook. I knew this software for long time, but for VMWare Server I’ve just installed it last night. Well, I encountered some problem with this installation, started with creating bootable Windows Server 2003 cd, then VMWare cannot detect my guest OS Win Server 2003 x64 bit. If you face this issue, may be solution below will help you.

Creating Bootable Win Server 2003 CD

The requirement is you have copy of the original CD, and software ImgBurn which can be downloaded free on this link. >> Download ImgBurn 2.4.2.0 >> . This burning software made us easy to create bootable OS CD/DVD. If you’re interested I can share to you. For bootable ISO files, you need to attached bootable Image of the OS. The summary steps are :

Open ImgBurn
Choose menu Mode -> Build
Add directory source.
Tab Options, Fill File System : ISO9660 + Juliet
Tab Labels, fill in the disc labels, for Win Server 2003 information can be found here.
Tab Advanced, fill as picture below.
Then Build to your CD/DVD.

Unable to boot guest OS Win Server 2003 x64

This is a little bit tricky solution. If you boot your guest OS 64 bit on 32 bit machine you see this error :

Attempting to load an x64 operating system, however this CPU is not compatible with x64 mode. Please install a 32-bin X86 operating system.

To solve this, you need to check that your BIOS supporting Virtualization Technology. This VT feature can be enabled in your BIOS Setting. To enter BIOS setup, Press F10 just after your PC start booting. VMWare provides the software to check your system compatibility to run guest OS 64 bit. You can dowload the software here. For further detail information, you can visit vmware KB Article 1003945.

Error when openning service in Visual Administrator

sapbasisadmin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:23:15 +0000

In some case, this picture is shown when you try to open service in cluster -> server -> service (for example SLD Data Supplier)

SLD Data Supplier error

If you open OSS Notes 1017526, you can only find general cause which somehow a little bit confusing, which state : For SAP J2EE Engine SP15 (NW04), add the Java option “-DP4ClassLoad=P4Connection” in the “go” script and make sure the J2EE Application “com.sap.engine.class.download” is started .

To solve this problem you need to copy sldserv.jar file from /usr/sap///j2ee/cluster/server/bin/services/sld/ to usr/sap///j2ee/admin/lib/

You may try to look for the other services under /bin/services folder and move it to admin/lib. good luck.

VNC Server Start/Stop Command

sapbasisadmin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:47:28 +0000

In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.
(wikipedia)

Usage: vncserver [] [:]
vncserver -kill :
These are few examples how to start and stop VNC Server on Linux Suse9,
start : vncserver :5
stop : vncserver -kill :5

Then you can use the VNC Client to connect to the server. You can download from Real VNC or Tight VNC.

Export/Import Table using BRTOOLS

sapbasisadmin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:46:01 +0000

Case : I want to reorganize table and rebuild index offline for table SOFFCONT1. Table SOFFCONT1 contains SAP Business Workplace/SAPoffice objects which often grow rapidly in Netweaver based component.

Procedure : Here’s the procedure to export/import tables and rebuild index using BRTOOLS,

Export table SOFFCONT1
Drop index
Import table SOFFCONT1
Run Update Statistics Optimizer

Details steps :

1. Export table SOFFCONT1

>brspace -f tbexport -t soffcont1

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.10.00

BR1009I Name of database instance: R3X

BR1010I BRSPACE action ID: seasymoz

BR1011I BRSPACE function ID: tbe

BR1012I BRSPACE function: tbexport

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.10.07

BR0657I Input menu 359 - please enter/check input values

Main options for export of tables: SAPR3X.SOFFCONT1

1 * Export utility (utility) ............... [EXP]

2 * Tablespaces for export (tablespaces) ... []

3 * Owner for export (owner) ............... []

4 - Export table rows (rows) ............... [yes]

5 - Export table indexes (indexes) ......... [yes]

6 - Export table constraints (constraints) . [yes]

7 - Export table grants (grants) ........... [yes]

8 - Export table triggers (triggers) ....... [yes]

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.12.18

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.12.18

BR0657I Input menu 360 - please enter/check input values

Additional options for export of tables: SAPR3X.SOFFCONT1

1 - Use direct path (direct) ................ [yes]

2 - Export buffer size in KB (buffer) ....... [10240]

3 - Compress table extents/data (compress) .. [no]

4 - Consistent export (consistent) .......... [no]

5 # Parallel degree (parallel) .............. [1]

6 - Max. size of dump file in MB (filesize) . [20000]

7 - Force table export (force) .............. [no]

8 - EXP/EXPDP command (command) ............. [E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\exp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz\parfile.exp]

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.13.15

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.13.16

BR0370I Directory I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz created

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.13.16

BR0370I Directory I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz.edd created

BR1164I Export of tables will be started with command line: E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\exp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz\parfile.exp

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.13.16

BR0670I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 'b[ack]' to go back, 's[top]' to abort:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 21.13.47

BR0257I Your reply: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0278I Command output of 'E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\exp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz\parfile.exp':

Export: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sat Jun 6 21:13:47 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Username:

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Export done in WE8DEC character set and UTF8 NCHAR character set

About to export specified tables via Direct Path ...

Current user changed to SAPR3X

. . exporting table                      SOFFCONT1

continuing export into file I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz.edd\expdat1.dmp

962456 rows exported

Export terminated successfully without warnings.

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 22.44.59

BR1160I 1 table exported by EXP utility

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 22.45.02

BR0670I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 'b[ack]' to go back, 's[top]' to abort:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 22.55.09

BR0257I Your reply: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 22.55.10

BR1022I Number of tables processed: 1

BR1003I BRSPACE function 'tbexport' completed

BR1008I End of BRSPACE processing: seasymoz.tbe 2009-06-06 22.55.10

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 22.55.12

BR1005I BRSPACE completed successfully

2. Drop index

>sqlplus “/as sysdba”

SQL>drop index “SAPR3X”.”SOFFCONT1~0″;

Index dropped

3. Import table SOFFCONT1

>brspace -f tbimport -t soffcont1

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.00.00

BR1009I Name of database instance: R3X

BR1010I BRSPACE action ID: seasywiu

BR1011I BRSPACE function ID: tbi

BR1012I BRSPACE function: tbimport

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.00.00

BR0656I Choice menu 361 - please make a selection

Import tables main menu

1 = Import tables

2 - Show BRSPACE export runs

3 * Exit program

4 - Reset program status

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.00.14

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0699I Reading log file I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\spaceR3X.log ...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.00.15

BR0658I List menu 362 - please select one entry

List of BRSPACE exports for import

Pos.  Run           Date                   Tables  Dumps       Size[KB]  Util.

1 = seasymoz.tbe  2009-06-06 21.09.57        1      2       25519234   EXP

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your selection:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.01.22

BR0663I Your selection: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.01.22

BR0657I Input menu 363 - please enter/check input values

Main options for import from dump file I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz.edd\expd	at.dmp,... (2 dumps)

1 * Import utility (utility) ............... [IMP]

2 - Import type (type) ..................... [full]

3 # Owner for import (owner) ............... []

4 # Tables for import (tables) ............. [SOFFCONT1]

5 - Import table rows (rows) ............... [yes]

6 - Import table indexes (indexes) ......... [yes]

7 - Import table constraints (constraints) . [yes]

8 - Import table grants (grants) ........... [yes]

9 # Import table triggers (triggers) ....... [yes]

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.02.42

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.02.42

BR0657I Input menu 364 - please enter/check input values

Additional options for import from dump file I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasymoz.ed	d\expdat.dmp,... (2 dumps)

1 - Import buffer size in KB (buffer) ....... [10240]

2 - Commit after each array insert (commit) . [yes]

3 - Ignore creation errors (ignore) ......... [yes]

4 # Table exists action (action) ............ [skip]

5 # Parallel degree (parallel) .............. [1]

6 # Max. size of dump file in MB (filesize) . [20000]

7 - Force table import (force) .............. [no]

8 - IMP/IMPDP command (command) ............. [E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\imp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasywiu\parfile.imp]

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.03.06

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.03.07

BR0370I Directory I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasywiu created

BR1172I Import of tables will be started with command line: E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\imp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasywiu\parfile.imp

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.03.07

BR0670I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 'b[ack]' to go back, 's[top]' to abort:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-06 23.03.34

BR0257I Your reply: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0278I Command output of 'E:\oracle\R3X\102\BIN\imp parfile=I:\Oracle\R3X\sapreorg\seasywiu\parfile.imp':

Import: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sat Jun 6 23:03:35 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Username:

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via direct path

import done in WE8DEC character set and UTF8 NCHAR character set

. importing SYS's objects into SYS

. importing SAPR3X's objects into SAPR3X

. . importing table                    "SOFFCONT1"     962456 rows imported

Import terminated successfully without warnings.

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.43.12

BR1166I 1 table imported by IMP utility

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.43.14

BR0256I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 's[top]' to cancel BRSPACE:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.19

BR0257I Your reply: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.19

BR0656I Choice menu 361 - please make a selection

Import tables main menu

1 * Import tables

2 - Show BRSPACE export runs

3 = Exit program

4 - Reset program status

Standard keys: c - cont, b - back, s - stop, r - refr, h - help

BR0662I Enter your choice:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.25

BR0663I Your choice: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.25

BR0680I Do you really want to exit BRSPACE? Enter y[es]/n[o]:

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.33

BR0257I Your reply: 'y'

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.33

BR1022I Number of tables processed: 1

BR1003I BRSPACE function 'tbimport' completed

BR1008I End of BRSPACE processing: seasywiu.tbi 2009-06-07 00.46.33

BR0280I BRSPACE time stamp: 2009-06-07 00.46.34

BR1005I BRSPACE completed successfully

4. Run Update Statistic Optimizer in SAP

Execute or Schedule this via DB13 then it will create a new index for table SOFFCONT1.

Note: Tables SOFFCONT1 need to be reorganized offline as they contain LONG RAW fields and must not be converted to LOBS with the online reorganization.

SAP System Monitoring

sapbasisadmin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:51:52 +0000

Can you imagine if you have a job to monitor the whole SAP system and also non SAP system? Okay, let’s say that you only have 3 system landscapes, that would be very easy to monitor, check the system one by one. But if you have hundreds of systems, how will you manage the system monitoring? Before we continue to the basic concept for system monitoring, we should answer this question: Why do we need to monitor SAP system? For some of you may be that’s a silly question, but for this little question will save your a lot of effort to monitor the system both SAP or non SAP.

The picture above explain the architecture for Central Monitoring. It means we have one system as a central system to maintain all connected agent, which later we call it CCMS Agent. Btw, What does CCMS stands for ? CCMS is Computing Center Management System. Basically, we can use transaction code :

RZ20 : Display CCMS architecture as an alert monitor.
RZ21 : To set the global customizing setting for the alert monitor.

We have several functional principles of the CCMS Agent which are:

SAPCCMSR. This agent monitors components on which there’s no active SAP instance (such as log files, TREX, stand-alone database or operating system components. Now, SAPCCMSR has extended j2ee options to monitor J2EE Engine.
SAPCCM4X. This agent improves the monitoring of ABAP instance with SAP Basis 4.x or higher. The central monitoring system must have a release status of at least SAP Basis 4.6C. that’s why this is called 4X.
SAPCM3X. This agent allow the monitoring of SAP Instance with SAP basis 3.x through the CCMS monioring architecture.

Now, here’s the quick steps to intall and operate remote CCMS Agent:

You have central monitoring system (CEN). Create CSMREG user in CEN using SU01.
Generate file CSMCONF file in CEN before agent registration. In CEN, call transaction RZ21 and choose Technical Infrastructure -> Configure Central System -> Create CSMCONF Start File for Agents.
Download executable CCMS Agent.
Installing an Agent. For example we want to install agent on ABAP instance. For Windows: [drive]:\usr\sap\\SYS\exe\run\sapccm4x -R pf=
For UNIX: /usr/sap//SYS/exe/run/sapccm4x -R pf=
During the registration, the system displays specifications from the CSMCONF to you again for confirmation. Confirm the specifications by pressing the ENTER key in each case. You only need to enter two parameters yourself:
- The password for the administration user in CEN, under which you created the CSMCONF file.
- The password for the CSMREG user.

That’s it. simple isn’t it? After you register the agent, after few seconds or may be in minutes you will see the agent status on CEN. Of course this is just a little part for CCMS System monitoring. You can download the full information for SAP System Monitoring using CCMS on the link below. By understanding the concept of this reference, I think you will be a CCMS expert. Enjoy !

Download SAP training material for CCMS here : SAP System Monitoring using CCMS I and SAP System Monitoring using CCMS II

How to Activate HTTPS Configuration in ITS 6.20 ?

sapbasisadmin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:56:35 +0000

ITS : Internet Transaction Server. It is a software component that acts as a gateway between a Web server and an SAP system. SAP ITS switches between Internet protocols and formats (such as HTTP, HTTPS, and HTML). Before SAP Web AS 6.40, ITS component is not integrated with SAP Web AS.

This is the procedure to activate HTTPS configuration in your stand alone ITS 6.20:
-Go to http://:1080/scripts/wgate/wgate-config/!
-choose the ITS instance.
-Go to ‘Matching URLs’ and click ‘add’.
-Change line like : http xxxx 9999 /scripts/wgate ADM yes no
to : https _default_ 443 /scripts/wgate ADM yes yes
-Click ‘Activate new configuration’.

IAIK Security library not found!

sapbasisadmin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:59:18 +0000

Problem : When I open key storage service in Visual Admin I got an error.
SID -> Server -> Service -> Key Storage.

Error :
“IAIK Security library not found!”
“java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: iaik/security/provider/IAIK”

Solution :
Copy the iaik_jce.jar or iaik_jce_export.jar from the SCS Instance \\\SAPMNT\\SYS\global\security\lib\tools\iaik_jce.jar to your CI directory \usr\sap\\JC\j2ee\admin\lib

Work Process stop with status ENQ

sapbasisadmin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:23:44 +0000

This is the issue solved with unexpected solution that I didn’t imagine before. Have you ever experienced the hanging work process with most all status in ENQ but it seems no queue process or locked (SM13 and SM14 works properly) in the system? Even when you restart the dialog instance, they still come up with the same status. If you see in the MMC, it looks like this :

So based on SAP OSS Notes 1131092, you can restart the ENQ work process, and it recommends you to add more ENQ work process, 3 is enough. This error might be caused by a long running/a lot of processes using this ENQ work process. I said ‘might’ because this cant be explained also by SAP. You may try this solution since those stucked work process with status ENQ cant be stopped from MMC, also from dpmon program.