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