Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.
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Contents 1 Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.10 Release Notes........................4 Announcements........................................................................................................................4 What's In this Version...............................................................................................................4 Cluster awareness for SAP startup framework...........................................................................
1 Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.10 Release Notes Announcements HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) on HP-UX, extends HP Serviceguard's failover cluster capabilities to SAP application environments. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the HP Serviceguard product. SGeSAP provides a single, uniform interface to cluster ABAP-only, JAVA-only, double-stack and split-stack installations of SAP Netweaver based SAP applications.
• “Easy Deployment scenarios for SAP landscapes through HP Serviceguard Manager ” (page 5) • “ Guided configuration and administration of SGeSAP modular packages through HP Serviceguard Manager ” (page 6) • “Improved SAP central service software operation monitoring” (page 7) • “Oracle database software operation monitoring” (page 7) • “ MaxDB database service software operation monitoring” (page 7) • “ Cluster module for SAP MDM 7 instance packages” (page 7) • SGeSAP/dbinstance supports SAP Sy
The native SAP software configuration settings of the instances that belong to the selected SAP System ID get discovered from the cluster nodes and serve as input for Serviceguard package parameter settings that populate package configuration files. There are two options: the SGeSAP Multiple packages easy deployment scenario and the SGeSAP Combined Packages easy deployment scenario.
• Standard package configurations can be quickly applied after selecting the SAP software instances. For more complex configurations, all settings can be reviewed on a summary screen and adapted to individual needs editing parameters in HP Serviceguard Manager screens. • The SGeSAP specific “follow-and-push” relationship between SAP Central Service packages and their Enqueue Replication Service packages is now visualized under the dependency tab of HP Serviceguard Manager.
The HP Serviceguard Manager configuration screen for SGeSAP database packages now includes a radio button which enables you to select Sybase as database technology. Easy deployment of the SGeSAP package is also enabled for Sybase ASE. SGeSAP/dbinstance supports IBM DB2 UDB The db_vendor modular-style package attribute allows db2 as valid attribute value. The sapdatab.mon monitoring is enabled to monitor DB2 databases.
Additional enhancements • All SGeSAP service monitors now support the Serviceguard package maintenance mode for modular packages. While a package runs in maintenance mode, it is possible to manually start, stop, and manipulate the SAP software components in the package without risking any service monitor to fail. Monitoring will continue to operate automatically as soon as the package leaves maintenance mode.
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements This section describes the hardware and software that is required and/or supported with Serviceguard Extension for SAP. Hardware Requirements All hardware and configuration requirements for HP Serviceguard apply in addition to any SGeSAP specific requirement. A combination of HP 9000 and Integrity nodes for a SAP instance cluster is possible.
Additional Software Requirements SGeSAP B.05.10 requires the installation of HP Serviceguard A.11.20 which can be purchased separately or as part of an operating environment bundle. SGeSAP supports storage layouts of LVM or VxVM volume managers. Hot standby liveCache installations require a combination of LVM volumes and VxVM volumes. They have further software requirements: Hot standby liveCache requires the HP Serviceguard Cluster Filesystem product to be installed as a mandatory product.
The following basis support matrixes will map application components to supported SAP kernel releases for convenience. Read from left to right and match your configuration by choosing one option from each cell that would be passed by a mentally drawn straight, horizontal line. Table 1 T2803BA SGeSAP Support Matrix—SAP Components Part 1 EP BW XI PI 7.31 7.31 7.31 KW MDM MDS SAP kernel Operating Environment Version 7.20 HP-UX 11i v3 Database 7.20_EXT 7.10EHP1 7.1 7.0 7.0 7.10 7.0 7.
Table 3 T2803BA SGeSAP Support Matrix—SAP Components Part 3 CRM SRM CE 7.0EHP2 7.0EHP2 7.0EHP1 7.0EHP1 SAP kernel Operating Database Environment version 7.20_ext HP-UX 11i v3 7.2 7.20 Oracle 7.1EHP1 7.11 MaxDB 7.1 7.10 7.0 DB2 Sybase 7.01 2007 2007 6.0 6.0 2006s/2 5.5 5.2 2005SR3 2006s 2005SR2 5.1 2005SR1 2005 2005 7.0 5.0 3.0SR1 2004SR1 6.40_EX2 2004 6.40 4.
It is recommended to create new packages as modular packages and plan to migrate existing legacy packages. Legacy package support is planned to be discontinued in a future version of SGeSAP. NOTE: Modular packages are available for SAP Master Data Management version 7.10 (not available for version 5.5). Port Requirements For ports that are generally required by HP Serviceguard, please refer to “Port Requirements” section of the Serviceguard A.11.20 Release Notes.
Patches, Fixes, Known Problems, and Workarounds For a current list of patches, known problems, and workarounds, contact your HP support representative or go to the appropriate Hewlett-Packard Support Centre website: http:// www.hp.com/go/hpsc. Known Limitations The SAP dbmcli hss_removestandby command is only supported with liveCache 7.7.04.37 and above. A hot standby database configuration can be deleted from earlier revisions by removing the HS* parameters with param_directput instead.
• QXCR 1000999617 “SGeSAP 5.00 sap_functions.sh stop_db function logs output to the incorrect file” Resolution: The wrong shell variable setting for the output file and the log message of stopdb in SGeSAP 5.00 patches PHSS_[39357|39358] got corrected. • QXCR 1001006257 “start_direct() does not handle INSTANCE_AUTOSTART=1 as it should“ Resolution: SGeSAP 5.10 does not issue warnings about already running instances, if a customer configures the SAP sapstartsrv agent to autostart SAP.
• Operation with the SRP Reference Architecture for Oracle is available only after installation of PHSS_41881 or a superseding, cumulative patch is installed. • The easy deployment scenarios for SGeSAP is available only after installation of PHSS_42151 and PHSS_42131 or superseding cumulative patches.
The Serviceguard Manager plug-in supports the following languages in addition to American English: 18 • Japanese • Simplified Chinese • Korean • Traditional Chinese • Standard French • Standard German • Standard Italian • Standard Spanish Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.
