Method 1) Logon to SAP system and go to SM51 à Release Notes
Method 2) Logon to SAP system and go to System tab in the menu bar and select Status
Method 3) Logon in operating system, switch to user adm and give the command disp+work
You can also give disp+work –version
Download Kernel from Service Marketplace#
Go to “SAP Service Marketplace. ” (https:\service.sap.com) You will need your OSS ID and password.
Then go to Downloads à SAP Support Packages -> Entry By Application Group -> SAP Kernel 6.00 64 Bit -> Select your OS (LINUX/WINDOWS/SOLARIS/AIX) -> Database Dependent and Database independent Kernel Patch.
Two SAR files SAPEXE.SAR and SAPEXEDB.SAR are downloaded from Service Marketplace.
Database Independent
Database Dependent: ORACLE
Kernel Upgrade Steps:#
Step 1: Create a new Directory at OS level with enough space. Name of Dir can be “exe_new”.
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).
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”. Take the backup of existing kernel.Copy (only copy not move) the existing kernel from exe directory to “exe_old”
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)
Step 7:
Then copy the files from the new kernel directory exe_new to the existing kernel directory 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
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
Step 12: Now you can also check the kernel version level from SM51 or by selecting system à status