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SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications 11 SP3 Name SLE-11-SP3-SAP-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD.iso MD5: 6386275a54d0353706a4632977055d19 SLE-11-SP3-SAP-DVD-x86_64-GM-SRC.iso MD5: b42408b6997ccbfb55b049896a2d43bd

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Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish Download Manager Links Reminder: By downloading this product, you reaffirm your agreement to comply with the export laws of the United States and those of other countries. SHA-256 and MD5 Verification Checksums: SHA-256 and MD5 checksum values are used to verify the data integrity of downloaded files by comparing each checksum to the checksum value of the original file. SHA256 is more secure than MD5 and is therefore preferred for verifying the integrity of the downloaded files if possible. Linux/UNIX and Mac devices have these capabilities built-in; for Windows, several free utilities are available on the web to help you determine the checksum value of your downloaded files. Product Overview This DVD image contains SUSE Linux Enterprise Server optimized for SAP applications, it can be deployed automatically, including automatic installation of validated SAP solutions, or manually. The current release is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3. Please read the installation instructions for further details and known issues. For more information please visit the product page. Installation Instructions This DVD image contains SUSE Linux Enterprise Server optimized for SAP applications, it can be deployed automatically, including automatic installation of validated SAP solutions, or manually. The current release is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3. Download And Installation Preparations 1. Download the DVD ISO image of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 (electronic media kit). 2. Burn it onto a physical DVD, ensure it is bootable (you might use a virtual CD-ROM device for installation into a virtual machine). 3. (Optional) Get the SAP Business All-in-One (or other SAP solution for installation wizard) installation media from SAP. Installation

1. Insert the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 disk into the DVD Drive and boot from DVD. 2. From the boot screen select "SLES for SAP Applications - Installation" (for interactive installation), "SLES for SAP Applications - Installation with Wizard" (for installation using the SAP installation wizard) or "SLES for SAP Applications Installation with external profile" (for installation using a self-provided AutoYaST profile). 3. Press enter to start the installation. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For SAP Applications - Installation Select this boot entry to start an interactive installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. The default package selection is based on SAP recommendations. This installation path is comparable to the standard installation path experienced during an installation of a plain SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. You will be prompted for all common installation settings, like partitioning of storage devices, network, software packages and other. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For SAP Applications - Installation With Wizard Select this boot entry in order to conduct a system installation supported by a set of tools and processes which do basic system configurations according to general recommendations by SAP and assisst in installing SAP software products. You will be prompted for some essential installation parameters like storage devices and network settings but most of the time the wizard sets system parameters wherever this makes sense or according recommendations from SAP are available. After the automatic system reboot (don't change the default "Boot from Hard Disk" in case you left the DVD inserted), the system will provide some dialogs for basic system settings. The Media-Changer will start for installation of a validated SAP solutio SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For SAP Applications - Installation With External Profile Installation based on a custom AutoYaST script. Within the boot options change the "autoyast=usb:///" parameter to the location of a custom AutoYaST script to use for automatic installation. SAP Specific Instructions For further installation instructions, the SAP specific parts in particular, please refer to the SAP Installation Guide (the "Cookbook"). Installation Options In The DVD Menu  

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SLES for SAP Applications -Installation Traditional installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications (as described in "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications - Installation") SLES for SAP Applications - Installation with Wizard The AutoYaST driven SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications installation using the SAP Installation Wizard for installation of OS and SAP solution (as described in "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications - Installation with Wizard") SLES for SAP Applications - Installation with external profile AutoYaST will look on USB devices for the XML configuration file. Plug in an USB device and store your config in a way like it is on the DVD in the "/rules" directory (as described in "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications - Installation with external profile")

How to do a system installation with the OS software installation media offered by a network service (HTTP e.g.):

1. Copy the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications DVD content to a webserver (for example myserver.com) into the directory /srv/www/htdocs/mydir 2. Boot from DVD 3. Choose one of the bootmenu options and edit the command line: Remove the parameters instmode=cd netsetup=0 from the commandline and change autoyast=file:/// to autoyast=http://myserver.com/mydir/ and add a parameter install=http://myserver.com/mydir Just these steps are required for a network installation. If you want to avoid using a DVD to bootstrap the system and boot from the network via PXE, please read the documentation about setting up a PXE environment (http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/bootmedium.html).

How to use SAP software media shared over the network with the Installation Wizard: The installation Wizard is able to read the content stored on the SAP software product media from network shared files and the supported protocols are NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP. Inorder to make use of it you need to copy the content of the SAP software product media to your shared file space. Please make sure to store the content of each single media into a separate directory. The following is a brief description of how to setup a NFS server for this purpose: If you want to put your media on a NFS Server, please follow these steps: 1. Create a directory /srv/www/htdocs/sap_test on your installation server. 2. Edit your /etc/exports file on the installation server by adding the following: /srv/www/htdocs/sap_test *(ro,root_squash,sync) 3. Create a directory for every SAP Media you have, e.g. /srv/www/htdocs/sap_test/sapcd1 4. Copy the content of all SAP Medias to the corresponding directory. Now the media changer can also install from your NFS server. (Please note that it is possible to store ISO-images of the media and use these directly instead of copying its content into directories, in this case please make sure that the path includes the .iso extension)

Information on considered SAP Notes: The following SAP-Notes have been considered for the automated configuration and setup of this product.

SAP Note No: Title 1391070 UUID-Solutions on Linux 1275776 Linux: Preparing SLES for SAP environments 1172419 Linux: Supported Java-versions for the x86_64-platform 1056161 SUSE Priority Support for SAP-Solutions 936887 End of maintenance for Linux distributions 516716 Linux: Problems with locales after glibc-Update 405827 Journaled File System und Raw Devices on Linux 171356 SAP Software on Linux: basic comments 1597355 Swap-space recommendations for Linux Setup Recommendations Remote Desktop access with RDP: If you are installing the xrdp packages for RDP remote desktop services, it is started by default. It is recommended to deactivate this service if you don't intend to use it, otherwise please make sure to review some security settings for this service. Depending on your individual environment it is recommended to set the configuration option "crypt_level" from "low" to "high". Additionally you should consider restricting access to the xrdp port to only those systems that actually need to access this system. Please read the documentation provided with the package, you'll find it

in the following directory /usr/share/doc/packages/xrdp and the manpage accessible by "man xrdp" on the commandline. SUSEfirewall not activated by default: If you have used the installation path: "Installation with Install Wizard", then the SUSEfirewall is not activated by default. It is recommended to review the settings and configure and start the SUSEfirewall accordingly. Please make sure to include all ports and connection types required by the system and the installed SAP product components. WebYaST: In case you install the WebYaST packages, the WebYaST client service is started to listen on port 54984 for a SSL secured HTTP connection. The SSL-certificate of this service is self-issued and hence will cause an according SSL-certificate warning in your browser. It is recommended to exchange the SSL-certificate accordingly, to avoid this error and improve the level of security. Known Issues 1. Documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications will only be provided online at http://suse.com/documentation and is not provided on the media 2. If there was an installation attempt of a SAP software product installation and the installation was incomplete, there is a chance that the incomplete data is always processed and subsequently errors may occur. In cases where you cancel an installation of a SAP software product during installation with the Installation Wizard you need to make sure, that the incomplete data is removed successfully. You can do this by inspecting the directory /data/SAP_CDs/. You will find direcotries numbered from "0" up to higher numbers. These direcotries represent product installations. Please make sure that the directory /data/SAP_CDs/ is empty before starting the Installation Wizard again.