Who is the SAP Basis Administrator?

The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the management of the SAP environment.

The SAP Basis Administrator responsibilities include implementing,configuring, monitoring, tuning, and
troubleshooting the SAP technical environment well as scheduling and executing the SAP transport system.

The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP systems.
Additional configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment, scheduling and
executing the SAP transport system, design of interfaces between SAP and external systems, optimize and analyze
performance issues, design architectures of the landscape

What are the activities of “SAP Systems Administrator”

SAP and OS Administration Operations

Starting / Stopping SAP instance

Print management
SAP Security operations
Monitoring the SAP system for health and performance issues
System Landscape Configurations and Operations
Batch jobs creation,controlling and all management operations
User Administrations and Authorizations
All backup operations for SAP system
Request and Transport Management Systems
SAP Kernel Upgrades
Implementing SAP OSS Notes
Appling SAP Add-Ons and Support Packages
OS Space and Disk management
OS level Backup & Recovery Operations
OS level Security and Patch Monitoring and Management

Database Administration
Database Management
Database Patch and Version Management
Database Performance and Health Monitoring
Database Backup & Restore Operations
Database Tablespace and Index Operations

SAP Remote Basis Administration Task List

Daily Tasks
1. Check SAP system UP & Running
2. Check all backup operation results db13
3. Check OS/DB/SAP system logs al11/st06
4. Check CCMS alerts Rz20
5. Check all workprocess status sm51/sm50/sm66
6. Check background jobs status sm37
7. Check the lock table and failed updates sm12
8. Check user operations such as failed logon and locked users su01
9. Check SAPDBA calendar status db13
10. Check Dump status st22
11. Check response time , CPU and memory usage st06
12. Check SAP performance and usage issues st03
13. Check database performance
14. Check database free space db02
15. Check archive directory status df -gt

Sm02
Weekly Tasks
1. Clean up Spool sp01
2. Clean up transport buffers
3. Run TemSe consistency check
4. Check Spool requests sp01
5. Review security audit log
6. Check database consistency
7. Monitor total DB growth and free space db02
8. Monitor tablespace growth db02
9. Analyze Early Watch reports
Monthly Tasks
1. Defregmant the memory
2. Monitor the growth of the database.
3. Check directory structure
4. Clean old logs
Yearly Tasks
1. User security controls
3. Contol profiles and authorizations
2. Check SAP profile parameters
3. Check the standard scheduled jobs sm36
4. Backup & Restore test
5. Archive the old transport files
6. Maintain database parameter files
7. Check licensing issues for OS/DB/SAP/HW
8. Check and manage clients in QA/test/development systems
9. Check user IDs SAP* and DDIC
10. Check locked transactions sm13
11. Archive end-of-year backup

Daily Support
User unlock
User password change
ESS User unlock
ESS User password change
Request transport
Role assign
Object assign
Sap note
XI lock remove