SAP Host Agent Installation

In many cases SAP Host Agent is installed automatically. However, there are certain cases when you have to install it manually.

SAP Host Agent is installed automatically during the installation of all new SAP system instances or instances with SAP kernel 7.20 or higher.

You only need to install SAP Host Agent separately in the following cases:

• There is no SAP system or instance on the host.

• The SAP system or instance running on the host has a kernel release lower than SAP kernel 7.20 and the host does not yet have an SAP Host Agent.

• You have upgraded your SAP system to a release with a kernel release lower than SAP kernel 7.20 and the host of the upgraded system or instance does not yet have an SAP Host Agent.

• The general strategy in high availability (HA) environments is to install the SAP Host Agent locally on each cluster node.

The following sections describe how you can install SAP Host Agent separately:

• Installing SAP Host Agent Manually
• Installing SAP Host Agent Using Software Provisioning Manager