Importing Profiles

Use

When you first install an SAP System, upgrade to a new SAP release or add a new application server, the system automatically generates or updates SAP instance profiles at operating system level. Unfortunately, the installation program cannot save these profiles directly to the database. You must therefore import the SAP instance profiles before you can then edited them.

You can import profiles at any time, not only when you change profiles for the first time. You can also use the CCMS profile maintenance tool to generate a new operating system copy of all the active profiles that are currently in the profile maintenance database.

Ensure that all application servers (instances) are active before you import profiles.

Procedures

To import SAP profiles from all active application servers (mass import):

1. Call the CCMS profile maintenance tool by choosing CCMS
® Configuration ® Profile Maintenance. Alternatively, call Transaction RZ10.
2. Choose Utilities
® Import profiles ® of active servers. The system imports the default profile and all start and instance profiles that are used by the SAP instances. The system checks the profiles and displays a log. The names of the profiles in the database are taken from the corresponding file names on the operating system.




If you import the instance profile /usr/sap/C11/SYS/profile/C11_D53, then the profile in the database will be called C11_D53.

3. Once you have finished importing the profiles, position the cursor on the Profile field and press
F4. The system displays the names of the profiles that were imported.

To import individual profiles:

You should use this function if you have installed a new application server, or if a profile was modified at the operating system level. You must first create a new profile using the profile maintenance function.

1. On the initial screen of Transaction RZ10, enter the profile name (the version number is generated automatically).

Profile type and status now appear on the screen for your information.

2. Choose Profile
® Create.
3. Maintain the administration data: Short description, the file name in which the profile should be activated (you must specify a reference server and profile type).
4. Once the administration data has been transferred, choose Profile
® Import on the basic profile maintenance screen.
5. The system displays a dialog box in which you should specify the operating system file into which the profile should be imported. You can display all the profile files which are in the global profile directory using the
F4 key.

The system checks the imported profile for errors. You can now edit and/or import the profile into the database as described above. Once the import process is complete, you can decide whether you want to activate the profile.