Avoiding Incomplete Upgrade of SAP Host Agent

We recommend that you create an empty file called .upgrading in the $DIR_NEW directory to avoid that saphostexec starts the upgrade procedure during the extraction of SAPHOSTAGENT<SP-version>.SAR - with the consequence that only part of the newest version of the packages is upgraded.

Procedure

Create the .upgrading file in the $DIR_NEW directory.
Extract SAPHOSTAGENT<SP-version>.SAR to $DIR_NEW.
Remove .upgrading from the $DIR_NEW directory.

Example

This example shows how you proceed on UNIX. You can proceed analogously on other operating system platforms:

Sample Code

cd /usr/sap/hostctrl/new/

touch .upgrading

SAPCAR -xvf SAPHOSTAGENT <SP-version>.SAR

rm .upgrading