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Procedure documentation Standard Installation on UNIX Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You are installing the installation profile all of the SAP DB software on the operating system UNIX. All necessary information is queried by the program during the installation.

The installation process is logged by the system.

Conventions

Variables

Prerequisites

·        You are in a root shell.

·        You have downloaded and unpacked the installation package (Downloading and Unpacking the Database Software on UNIX).

Preparations

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

·        The installation program enters the required services sql6, sql30 and sapdb ni 72 in the file /etc/services if they do not already exist there. If these services are managed centrally for your system on the network (NIS), you must enter them there as follows.  7210/tcp
sql30
  7200/tcp
sapdbni72
7269/tcp

·        When you install the software, the SAP DB software must be assigned to a special operating system user (as owner of the software), and to operating system user groups. Groups and owners must be defined in advance. Only users with the correct authorizations can generate the SAP DB database instances afterwards (see also Authorization for UNIX Operating Systems for software versions from 7.4.04 in Installation Manual: SAP DB).

If you manage user groups and owners locally on your server, then we recommend that you register the names of the user groups and the owner on the operating system before you start the installation. However, you can also specify them during the installation.

If you manage user groups and owners for your system at a central location in the network, then you must create them here before you start the installation. For more information on creating operating system users and user groups, see your operating system documentation.

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

Procedure

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       1.      Go to the directory
sapdb-all-<os>-32|64bit-<arch>-<version>_<build>,
into which you unpacked the installation package.
Enter /SDBINST, to start the installation program.

       2.      The system proposes the installation profile all. Confirm this installation profile.

       3.      The system prompts you to enter the following information:

¡        Special operating system user <sapdb_user> (owner of the SAP DB database software)

¡        Administrator group <sapdb_admin>

¡        Support group <sapdb_support>

If you are installing an older software version, the system prompts you to specify the group <group>and the owner <owner> of the SAP DB database software.

If you have already created the groups and the owner, enter and confirm them. The system compares this information with the values stored locally or elsewhere in the network. If they do not match, the installation terminates.

If the group and the owner have not yet been created, the system asks whether you want to create them. Enter your chosen values or confirm the system default values. This creates the group and the owner locally on your server.

       4.      The system now checks whether there are SAP DB installations already on your server.

¡        If SAP DB software installations already exist on your server, a list of these installations is displayed.
If you want to install new database software in parallel with an existing installation, enter none. You then have the option of specifying an installation path that is different from the existing installations. Define an installation path in parallel with the existing installation paths.

¡        If there are no SAP DB installations on your host, the SAP DB components contained in the installation profile are now installed. The system prompts you to specify the following paths:

·         Path for storing the data, configuration, and run directories of SAP DB database instances and SAP DB applications (the system default value is /var/opt/sapdb/indep_data)

·         Path for storing the programs and libraries shared by the SAP DB database instances and SAP DB applications (the system default value is /opt/sapdb/indep_prog)

·         Path for storing the server software that depends on the database version
This path must be unique.
Multiple directories with different versions can exist alongside each other (the system default value is /opt/sapdb/depend)

Enter your chosen paths or confirm the system default values.

       5.      If there were no SAP DB installations on your host until now, add the following entry to the PATH environment variable for all users who want to use SAP DB: <independent_program_path>/bin.

You see a success message about the installation.

Result

The installation profile all of the SAP DB software is now installed and registered on your host. You can use the log to check the result of the installation (Logging on UNIX).

You can now create new database instances using the Database Manager

(See:

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

·        The Web DBM documentation)

 

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