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The Kernel is the central program which acts as an interface between SAP
application and operating system.
The Kernel consists of the executable programs that reside under the
path "/sapmnt/<SID>/exe" (UNIX) or \usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\run (Windows)
These files help startup the R/3 system, initialize the memory, create
buffers and start managing the requests from users and effectively utilizing
of hardware resources.
The kernel is also responsible for starting and stopping all the application
services like dispatcher, message server, collector etc.
SAP Kernel is the core of the application. Like all other applications the
Kernel contains the executable files (.EXE files for stating various processes in
SAP).
Kernel is the heart of the operating system. It contains those files which
are used to run every event in SAP. E.g.|: starting database, shutdowns of
database, starting sap, shutdown of sap, saposcol, to uncar the sap files etc.
That's the reason why when a Kernel upgrade is done it means new
versions of the various EXE files replace the older versions.
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 <SID>adm and give the
command disp+work
You can also give disp+work version
Database Independent
1.
Create a new Directory at OS level with enough space. Name of Dir can be
"exe_new<ddmmyy>".
2.
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>).
4.
Now uncompress these .SAR files by sapcar exe. The command used for
the same would be
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>"
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
7.
Then copy the files from the new kernel directory exe_new<ddmmyy> to
the existing kernel directory exe
8.
This will copy / replace all the files in the existing kernel directory with a
new kernel files.
9.
Then check the kernel version from OS level by the command disp+work.
It should show that the patch number has been increased.
10.
./saproot.sh <SID>
11.
12.
This script assigns the correct permissions to all the executable programs
in the kernel such br* file etc...
Then start the SAP system
startsap r3
13.
Now you can also check the kernel version level from SM51 or by
selecting system status