Saving and Importing Profiles After Installation 

Use

After you have used the SAP installation program SAPINST to install a new system or a new instance, we recommend that you perform the following steps:

●      Back up all profiles in the profile directory at operating system level.

This provides you with additional security if you can no longer start the system due to incorrect changes to the profiles. In this case, you can copy the original profiles back to the profile directory and ensure that the system can be started to analyze and correct the cause of the error.

●      Import all profiles.

During an initial installation of an SAP system, an upgrade to a new SAP release, or the addition of a new application server, the system automatically generates or updates the profile files at operating system level. However, the installation program cannot store profiles directly in the database. Since we recommend that you edit profiles exclusively using the profile maintenance tool, you need to ensure that the current version of the profiles exists in the database. You can do this by importing the profiles.

You can import profiles at any time; however, if you consistently use only the profile maintenance tool to make changes to the profiles, you only need to do so after installation and upgrade.

Make sure all application servers (instances) are active before you importing profiles.

Importing Profiles from All Active Application Servers

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       1.      Call profile maintenance by choosing CCMS → Configuration → Profile Maintenance. Alternatively, use transaction code RZ10.

       2.      Choose Utilities → Import profiles → Of active servers. The system imports the default profile and all instance profiles. The system checks the profiles and displays a log. The names of the profiles in the database are taken from the corresponding file names on the operating system.

       3.      To check the import, choose the input help for the Profile input field. The system displays the names of the imported profiles.

Importing Individual Profiles

Use this function if you have installed a new application server, or you have changed a profile at operating system level. You must first create a new profile using the profile maintenance function.

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       1.      On the initial screen of transaction RZ10, enter the profile name (the version number is automatically assigned).

Profile type and status now appear on the screen for your information.

       2.      Choose Profile → Create.

       3.      Maintain the administration data: short description, the name of the file in which the profile is to be activated later (specify a reference server and profile type).

       4.      After you have copied the administration data, on the initial profile maintenance screen, choose Profile → Import.

       5.      A dialog box appears, in which you need to specify the name of the operating system file from which the profile is to be imported. You can display all the profile files in the global profile directory using the F4 key.

The system checks the imported profile for errors. You can now edit and/or import the profile into the database, as described above. After the import process has been completed, decide whether you want to activate the profile.

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