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Upgrade Kernel Version

Step 1: Create a new directory to hold the new kernel files and extract the SAR files into this directory. Step 2: Stop the SAP application. Step 3: Copy the files from the new kernel directory to the existing kernel directory, replacing the old files. Check that the kernel version has updated.

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Upgrade Kernel Version

Step 1: Create a new directory to hold the new kernel files and extract the SAR files into this directory. Step 2: Stop the SAP application. Step 3: Copy the files from the new kernel directory to the existing kernel directory, replacing the old files. Check that the kernel version has updated.

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Kernel Upgrade Steps:

Step 1: Create a new Directory at OS level with enough space. Name of Dir can be “exe_new<ddmmyy>”.

Step 2: Transfer these SAPEXEDB.SAR & SAPEXE.SAR files which you have downloaded to the new directory at OS
level.

Step 3: Change your current directory to path .SAR files are created (cd /sapmnt/PR2/exe_new20122006). Check the
directory path with command ‘pwd’ to ensure you are in the same dir (exe_new<ddmmyy>).

Step 4: Now uncompress these. SAR files by sapcar exe. The command used for the same would be

SAPCAR –xvf sapexe. SAR


SAPCAR –xvf sapexedb.SAR

Step 5:
Now create one more directory in that path with the name “exe_old<ddmmyy>”. Take the backup of existing
kernel.Copy (only copy not move) the existing kernel from exe directory to “exe_old<ddmmyy>”

Step 6: Now stop the SAP application. (For kernel upgrade the shutdown of database is not essential but we need
to stop the SAP application)

stopsap r3
Step 7:

Then copy the files from the new kernel directory exe_new<ddmmyy> to the existing kernel directory exe

cp -rp /sapmnt/<SID>/exe_new<ddmmyy>/* /sapmnt/<SID>/exe/


Step 8: This will copy / replace all the files in the existing kernel directory with a new kernel files.

Then check the kernel version from OS level by the command disp+work. It should show that the patch number has
been increased.

Step 9:

Then logon to OS level as root (specific to UNIX). In the kernel directory, there is a script called saproot.sh. Execute
this script

./saproot.sh <SID>
Step 10: This script assigns the correct permissions to all the executable programs in the kernel such br* file etc…

Step 11:

Then start the SAP system

startsap r3
Step 12: Now you can also check the kernel version level from SM51 or by selecting system status

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