Re: Antw: Re: Antw: SAPInstance does not start and asking for START_PROFILE

Fabian Herschel <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:54:58 +0100
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On 01/15/2015 11:35 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Fabian Herschel <[email protected]> schrieb am 15.01.2015 um 09:05

> Hi!
>
> I'm working for over 20 year with SAP R/3.

Me to :) I started with SAP R/3 1.1b and also have seen 1.0 which was 
SAP R/3 "try and buy" (which I changed in a non marketing try-and-bye :)

 > The tendency is that the mess
> steadily increases, making things more complex without actually improving the
> reliability (MHO). Where previously you used a script to start processes, you
> now have some script that acts like a web client to send some request to a
> java-based web server that in turn is expected to start the required processes.

My guess is that this is W*d*ws-style so having GUIs which are using 
someting like rest-APIs to provide a system change instead of just 
starting a well-working start script (like sapstart was in the past).

> Ive' see cases where a "started sucessfully" did not mean anything, i.e.
> nothing was started. OK, that was off-topic, but I had to say.

Yes that's unfortunately true and that's also why we recommend tom 
monitor the SAP instances to figure out real start error during the next 
monitor cycle.

> So regarding compatibility, you must make sure that the configuration files
> and related components match hte rest of your SAP infrastructure.
>
> My favorite is this: If you run a "java stack" that does nothing (is idle), it
> takes > 6 minutes to shut down the SAP instance (while there is no I/O and no
> CPU activity). Only the best programmers (TM) can write such code. I had to
> increase timeouts several times to prevent machine fencing while waiting for
> the stop command to complete... off-topic again, sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Ulrich
>
>
>>
>> However if this is a very old SAP NetWeaver than your idea the right
>> pointer. This is also why I asked for the SAP kernel version.
>> Regards
>> Fabian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Von Samsung-Tablet gesendet
>>
>> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
>> Von: Ulrich Windl <[email protected]>
>> Datum:15.01.2015  08:51  (GMT+01:00)
>> An: General Linux-HA mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: [Linux-HA] Antw: SAPInstance does not start and asking for
>> START_PROFILE
>>
>> Don't SAP start profiles start with "START_*`?
>>
>>>>> Muhammad Sharfuddin <[email protected]> schrieb am 14.01.2015 um
> 20:12
>> in
>> Nachricht <[email protected]>:
>>> OS: SLES 11 SP 3
>>> pacemaker-1.1.9-0.19.102
>>> corosync-1.4.5-0.18.15
>>> resource-agents-3.9.5-0.32.22
>>>
>>> starting the SAP Instance resource fails with following errors:
>>>
>>> Jan 14 18:22:16 thltlp1 SAPInstance(SAPInst-DVEBMGS00)[50450]: ERROR:
>>> Expected
>>> TLP_DVEBMGS00_thltlp to be the instance START profile, please set
>>> START_PROFILE
>>> parameter!
>>> Jan 14 18:22:16 thltlp1 crmd[47231]:   notice: process_lrm_event: LRM
>>> operation
>>> SAPInst-DVEBMGS00_start_0 (call=81, rc=6, cib-update=66, confirmed=true)
>>> not configured
>>>
>>> following is the resource configurations:
>>> primitive SAPInst-DVEBMGS00 ocf:heartbeat:SAPInstance \
>>> op monitor interval="120" timeout="60" \
>>> op start interval="0" timeout="300" \
>>> op stop interval="0" timeout="300" \
>>> params InstanceName="TLP_DVEBMGS00_thltlp"
>>> DIR_EXECUTABLE="/usr/sap/TLP/DVEBMGS00/exe"
>>> START_PROFILE="TLP_DVEBMGS00_thltlp" DIR_PROFILE="/sapmnt/TLP/profile"
>>>
>>> i.e START_PROFILE is configured but cluster is not starting the SAP
>>> Instance.
>>>
>>> Please help
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Muhammad Sharfuddin
>>>
>>>
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