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Figure 2: As shown in the above figure, please note SDM connects to port 18.
i.e If instance number is 00, then the SDM port will be 50018.
Please provide SDM password and click on Login button to connect to SDM tool.
Once you are successfully connected, a screen similar to below will appear.
Figure 3:
Please note that there are 4 following tabs here and each one of them have
significance as described below.
SDM Repository
Deployment
Undeployment
Log Viewer
i)
SDM Repository: This stores information about the registered SDAs (Software
Deployment Archives) and SCAs (Software Component Archives).
SDAs and SCAs are called as SDUs (Software Deployment Units)
When deploying SDUs, the Software Deployment Manager stores the data in the
SDM repository, where it then manages the installed archives.
On the SDM repository tab, we can
In the above screenshot, if you select the icon highlighted in red color, you will be
able to display public substitution variables and maintain them.
Please refer below screenshot for reference:
You can add or remove substitution variables by clicking on plus and minus icons
present in the below screen.
Figure 4:
By clicking on the icon highlighted in blue colour in the figure3, we can display SDM
repository related configuration information as shown below.
ii)
Deployment: We use the deployment tab in SDM for actually deploying new
Software Deployment Units (SDUs). The SDM takes you through selecting the
components and actually deploying software in the target directory.
Under deployment tab, you can view screen as shown below:
Figure 7
iii) Undeployment: It is possible to undeploy java components that are deployed earlier.
Use the Undeployment tab to do the same. Select all the components that were
deployed earlier and no longer needed and click on Start Undeployment tab to
undeploy the same. A screen similar to below will be available to you.
Figure 8:
SDM automatically checks for dependencies while undeploying any component. If you are
undeploying any component, please make sure you undeploy all other dependant
components beforehand.
iv)
Log viewer: This tab page will be used to view SDM work related log. Once you
select this tab, you can view screen similar to below one which displays all the logs
related to SDM tool.
We can locate this SDM log at Operating system level also at following path:
/usr/sap/SID/<Instance_name>/SDM/program/log
Figure 9:
If you wish, you can also check other logs related to SDM by clicking on highlighted Choose
other logs icon in the above figure. This will result in following screen, where you can select
the desired log file to view the content.
Figure 10: Please find below table which provides the log file names and their content