Installing Application Server on a Microsoft Windows Client

Use

You can install Application Server on a Windows client. If you install Application Server on a Linux/UNIX server, you must also install Application Server and supporting files on a Windows client machine for the following reasons:

  • You use the Windows client machine to connect to the back end.

    For information about supported Windows clients, see the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) at http://support.sap.com/pamInformation published on SAP site. In the Strategy Management PAM, choose Operating Systems, and then choose Administrator Application.

  • If you read in data from a relational database system, you use Application Server on the Windows client to create a Link ID and copy it to the Linux/UNIX server. (Application Server on Linux/UNIX has no interface to create a Link ID.)

  • You need to install the supporting files that are required for the strategy management application. The bootstrap.zip and import.zip supporting files are provided in the Application Server Windows installation.

For more information about the system landscape, see the Master Guide on the SAP Help Portal at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_STRATEGY_MANAGEMENT. Then choose System Landscape.

Prerequisites

You have installed Application Server on a Windows server or Linux/UNIX server.

Procedure

  1. Copy the file xSSMSrv<sp>_<patch>-<smp-id>.exe from the download location on the Microsoft Windows server to the Microsoft Windows client.

  2. From the installation location, run the xSSMSrv<sp>_<patch>-<smp-id>.exe file.

  3. In the first screen, click Next.

  4. In the next screen, select Strategy Management Server Components and click Next.

  5. In the path screen, click Next to accept the default path of C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP Strategy Management. Or, click Browse to browse for a location. Then click Next.

  6. In the final screen, click Done.

  7. (For Linux/UNIX installations) Move the import.zip file or bootstrap.zip file from the \SAP Strategy Management\InternetPub\conf directory on the server where you installed the supporting files to the \server0\temp\SSM\import directory on the SAP NetWeaver server. In a default installation, the full path is \usr\sap\<SID>\J00\j2ee\cluster\server0\temp\SSM\import.

  8. If you installed Application Server on a Windows server 2008 R2 system, modify the security settings of the /data and /home directories to allow Users full control.