SAP Software Update Manager The Software Update Manager is a multi-purpose tool, which supports various processes, such as performing a release upgrade, installing enhancement packages or applying Support Package stacks. Traditionally for applying SPS we use SPAM for ABAP & JSPM for Java. Some of the benefits of using SUM tool over these tools among others are Two different tools are not required to apply SPS. One SUM tool is used. No need to uncar the SAR files. Minimum downtime (Single downtime for both ABAP & Java combined). Simultaneously the SPS are applied to both the stacks. This document contains a demo scenario where we are the SUM tool is used to apply a support package stack to a PI 7.1 system SP04 to take the system to a targeted release of PI 7.1 SP08. For the scenario we have a PI 7.1 SP4 system installed on Linux (RHEL). Database used is Oracle 10.2.0.2. We will be updating the system from SPS4 to SPS8 (Including Kernel upgrade). You can use the SP stack application in SAP Service market place to know which support packages you need. For this you need to put in the SP stack application source stack and target stack. In Source stack you need to put SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 SPS04 and in the Target stack you need to put SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 SPS08. You also need to download the stack.xml file Once you have downloaded the packages dump the files and the stack into a download directory. The SUM tool will pick the required files from the download directory only. Note: In SMP the current SUM package is SUM 1.0 SP02 (SUM10SP02_-*.SAR) This is a two part article. This article contains demonstration until Check Phase of the Roadmap. Demo: Support Package Application using SUM tool In this section we will use the SUM tool to apply the Support Package Stack in a PI system. The source system is in PI 7.1 SP04 & the target System is PI 7.1 SP08. It is a dual stack. Normally we use SPAM to apply the ABAP part of SPS and JSPM to apply the Java SPS part. Let us start the SPS application using SUM tool. Once you have downloaded & extracted the SUM tool, start the SUM tool: ./STARTUP The SDT server and Program starts. You can now go to web browser and start the Installation GUI. To start the GUI from a browser, enter the following Internet address: http://<host name>:4239. Replace <host name> with the name of the host on which the installation program is running. Once you open the URL, the SDT GUI is automatically launched.
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SAP Software Update Manager
The Software Update Manager is a multi-purpose tool, which supports various processes, such as performing a
release upgrade, installing enhancement packages or applying Support Package stacks.
Traditionally for applying SPS we use SPAM for ABAP & JSPM for Java. Some of the benefits of using SUM tool
over these tools among others are
Two different tools are not required to apply SPS. One SUM tool is used.
No need to uncar the SAR files.
Minimum downtime (Single downtime for both ABAP & Java combined).
Simultaneously the SPS are applied to both the stacks.
This document contains a demo scenario where we are the SUM tool is used to apply a support package stack to
a PI 7.1 system SP04 to take the system to a targeted release of PI 7.1 SP08.
For the scenario we have a PI 7.1 SP4 system installed on Linux (RHEL). Database used is Oracle 10.2.0.2. We
will be updating the system from SPS4 to SPS8 (Including Kernel upgrade).
You can use the SP stack application in SAP Service market place to know which support packages you need.
For this you need to put in the SP stack application source stack and target stack. In Source stack you need to
put SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 SPS04 and in the Target stack you need to put SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1
SPS08. You also need to download the stack.xml file
Once you have downloaded the packages dump the files and the stack into a download directory. The SUM tool
will pick the required files from the download directory only.
Note: In SMP the current SUM package is SUM 1.0 SP02 (SUM10SP02_-*.SAR)
This is a two part article. This article contains demonstration until Check Phase of the Roadmap.
Demo: Support Package Application using SUM tool
In this section we will use the SUM tool to apply the Support Package Stack in a PI system. The source system is
in PI 7.1 SP04 & the target System is PI 7.1 SP08. It is a dual stack. Normally we use SPAM to apply the ABAP
part of SPS and JSPM to apply the Java SPS part. Let us start the SPS application using SUM tool.
Once you have downloaded & extracted the SUM tool, start the SUM tool: ./STARTUP
The SDT server and Program starts. You can now go to web browser and start the Installation GUI. To start the
GUI from a browser, enter the following Internet address: http://<host name>:4239. Replace <host name>
with the name of the host on which the installation program is running.
Once you open the URL, the SDT GUI is automatically launched.
Ensure that you have installed JRE for the SUM GUI to run
You need to provide a username and the password for the user (Administrator & not Observer mode) who is
running the SUM GUI.
The SUM tool detects the source system information and displays the information. The SUM tool can be used to
Upgrading to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 including enhancement package 1
Upgrading to SAP NetWeaver 7.3
Upgrading to SAP Business Suite 7 Innovation 2011
Updating to SAP Business Suite 7 Innovation 2011 (enhancement package installation)
Software Update Manager (SUM) 1.0 introductionRead this short blog to get a general understanding on what the Software Update Manager is and when to use it.
System Maintenance
The Software Update Manager 1.0 is the tool for system maintenance: Release uprade (major release change) System update (EHP installation) applying Support Packages (SPs) / Support Package Stacks applying Java patches correction of installed software information combine update and migration to SAP HANA (DMO: Database Migration Option)
The term update is the generic term for all of these activities, and it is used in the SUM documentation as well.
SUM is used for all SAP NetWeaver based systems, so systems either based on AS ABAP, or AS Java, or based