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You can use the SAP Management Console perspective to start, stop, and restart SAP systems and instances.

Prerequisites

  • You have opened the SAP Management Console perspective in the NWDS.

  • You have registered the system.

  • You must have administrative permissions to start, stop, or restart systems and instances. Before completing the relevant operation, the system prompts you for the operating system (OS) administrator user credentials (user <sapsid>adm).

Context

In the SAP Management Console (SAP MC), you can extend the list of SAP systems and instances you want to monitor and administer from a single tool. By default, the SAP MC displays the instances installed on the host to which you are connected. If you want to start, stop, or restart remote systems or instances, they need to be registered in the SAP MC.

With this version of the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS), you are able to start and stop database instances if the SAP host control is installed on your central instance.

Procedure


  • Proceed as follows to start an SAP system:

    1. In the SAP Management Console navigation view, open the tree structure and navigate to the system node you want to start.

    2. From the context menu of the system node, choose Start .

    3. In the Start SAP System(s) dialog box, choose the required options.

    4. Choose OK . The SAP MC starts the SAP system instances.

    Similarly, you can start individual instances registered in the SAP MC.

    Note

    You always have to start the system central services (SCS) instance first.

  • Proceed as follows to start a database instance:

    1. In the navigation view, open the tree structure and navigate to the database instance you want to start.

    2. In the context menu of the system node, choose Start Database .

    Note

    The database must be started separately before you start a system or instance.

  • Proceed as follows to stop an SAP system:

    1. In the SAP Management Console navigation view, open the tree structure and navigate to the system node you want to stop.

    2. In the context menu of the system node, choose Stop .

    3. In the Stop SAP System(s) dialog box, choose the required options.

    4. Choose OK . The SAP MC stops the SAP system instances.

    Similarly, you can stop or restart individual instances registered in the SAP MC.

    Note

    If you stop the system central service (SCS) instance, the other instances will fail a short time later.

  • Proceed as follows to stop a database instance:

    1. In the navigation view, open the tree structure and navigate to the database instance you want to stop.

    2. In the context menu of the system node, choose Stop Database .

    Note

    The database cannot be stopped if any clients are still connected to it. A hard shutdown is not supported.