SAPOSCOL on a UNIX Host 

Use

The saposcol program is normally installed with the R/3 System in the R/3 executables directory. The program requires "root" authorization since it reads areas of the operating system that are normally reserved for kernel processes.

Procedure

  1. To confirm how saposcol is installed, enter the following command from the UNIX prompt in the R/3 executables directory: ls -l saposcol.

This will display the following line: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root system 779332 Aug 1 10:14 saposcol

For security reasons, it is important that the authorizations -rwsr-xr-x and the owner root are configured. The owner root authorizations can be reconfigured using the following commands (as root user): chown root saposcol and chmod 4755 saposcol

Remember, saposcol should be started at or before the time you call up the first R/3 instance.

If R/3 instances with different release levels will be running on a single host, the most current saposcol must be used. To ensure that the correct saposcol is started before each R/3 instance, you can modify every start profile so that the most recent saposcol version is called. Also, be sure that the host is started with the same time zone as the R/3 instances. Doing so will prevent discrepancies in the performance data and the time at which it was generated.

 

See also:

Starting SAPOSCOL

Stopping SAPOSCOL

Displaying Collector Data

Installing SAPOSCOL and RFCOSCOL for a Dedicated DB Server