Maintaining Profiles 

Use

In non-production systems, you can make changes to system profiles as often as you like. In production SAP systems, it is only rarely necessary to make changes to the system profiles. In both cases, you should carry out your maintenance tasks using the CCMS profile maintenance.

The profile maintenance tool has the following advantages:

●      Convenience of use

●      Extensive profile checks

●      Testing of (several) individual profiles for consistency

●      No inconvenient profile editing at operating system level

●      Changes to profiles are logged

●      Profile data is held in the SAP database (security, consistency)

●      Provision of basic data for operation mode switching

You should no longer edit profiles with an editor at operating system level. It only makes sense to do this if the SAP system cannot be started in any other way.

Prerequisites

Set Authorizations

To use the profile maintenance, assign authorization values to authorization object S_RZL_ADM (Computing Center Management System Administration) in accordance with the desired processing mode:

Processing Mode	Value of ‘Activity’ Field in Authorization Object S_RZL_ADM
Edit and display profiles	01, 03
Display profiles	03

Import Profiles

Since you are working with profile data from the SAP database in the profile maintenance, you need to ensure that this data matches the corresponding active profiles in the file systems of the instances. You do this by importing the profiles. To import the profiles for all active servers, choose Utilities → Import Profiles → Of Active Servers. You can find more information under Importing Profiles.

You should always import the profiles in the following situations:

●      Before you first use the profile maintenance

●      After installing a new application server

●      After changing a profile at operating system level

To check whether the profile in the database matches the active profile in the file system, you can compare these profiles at any time. To do this, select the desired profile in the profile maintenance and choose Profile → Compare → Profile in Database → Against Active Profile.