SAP_ABAP_TRIALSERVER

Guide and manual for installing SAP ABAP trial server

Reference : Customer Guide - Installing SAP AS ABAP 7.52 SP04 on VMWare [Developer Edition] Written by SAP

You can refer another Language Version : 한국어

Link : Customer Guide

Prerequisite (Hardware, OS criteria) - By Customer Guide and readme file

Customer Guide

x86_64 Processor based hardware
About 100 GB free disk space for server installation
About 2 GB free disk space for client installation
English – SAP AS ABAP requires that you configure English
- (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) as the operating system language

readme file

x86_64 Processor based hardware
At least 4 GB RAM plus about 8 GB swap space
About 100 GB free disk space for server installation
About 2 GB free disk space for client installation

Preparation

1. Sign-up at SAP Universal ID for downloading SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04

Link : SAP Universal ID register page

2. Download SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 install files and Extract them

Download above files all and extract rar file

I've extracted install file at 'install' directory like below.

For us, The first difficulty things that downloading install files and license procedures for SAP installation are all finished.

3. Download VMware Workstation Player and openSUSE leap(linux OS) and other utility programs(winSCP)

Download VMware Workstation Player, version 14.0 for your OS

Link : Vmware Workstation Player 14.0

Please note that you should not install version 15.0>= yet.

There is currently an issue with version 15 and some versions of Windows (independent of AS ABAP). - customer guide

Download openSUSE leap(linux OS) ver 15.2

Link : openSUSE Leap 15.2

Download Link : openSUSE Leap 15.2 Download Page

File name : openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso

When I try to install through 15.4 version, it doesn't go smoothly, so I'm making this guide based on 15.2 version.

Download and Install WinSCP

Link : https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

It is a convenient utility program for copying the ABAP installation files from local PC to the VM linux system.

Create Virtual Machine With VMware Workstation

1. Start VMware Player and create a new virtual machine by clicking 'Create a New Virtual Machine'

2. Select Installer disc image file (iso) from local PC with Brose... button and choose Next

3. Select Guest operating system and Vesion and choose Next

4. Set the Virtual machine name and Location with yourself and choose Next

5. Set the Maximum disk size with 100 GB and choose Next

6. With Customize Hardware, Change the Processors to 4 Number of processor cores and Memory to 8GB and create VM instance with finish

7. With 'Play virtual machine' button, Start the VM instance that has been made just before

8. With keyboard(not mouse), select Installation option and press 'Enter'

9. After several Linux installation procedures, set the Language and Keyboard Layout. Set it to English and proceed through the Next button.

10. If you need to check 'Network Activation', please proceed with Next.

11. Choose 'Desktop with GNOME' option and Next

12. At Disk Partitioning step, we need to change partitioning option with Expert Partioner.

we can proceed with 'Start with Current Proposal' Option.

And then, Choose /dev/sda2 Device and click 'Modify' -> 'Edit Partition'

After that, Change Filesystem format to Ext4 and Click next buttton, and Choose Accept.

13. Select your Region and Time zone and Next

14. Enter : User's Full Name, Password

In this section, I've set the User name with 'ABAP', and password as well.

15. Important : You need to make the following settings. Scroll down to find Firewall and SSH:

Enable Firewall
Disable SSH service:

16. Click on Install and Confirm again to Install the Operating System.

The Linux operating system will install in few minutes.

Setup opsnSUSE VM Instance for ABAP Installation

In this section, we'll make some settings in the openSUSE system to prepare ABAP Installation

Change proxy settings
Download and extract the ABAP .rar files
Install the uuidd daemon
Edit the hostname and hosts files
Assign root privileges to the install script

1. After Installation openSUSE OS, Boot VM Instance

2. Check the memory stroage is enough or not.

Execute Terminal and execute shell script.

df -h

3. Download uuidd, tcsh, unrar utility program from terminal with below shell script

If you counter Y/N choice, put the 'Y' and press Enter button.

sudo zypper install uuidd
sudo zypper install tcsh
sudo zypper install unrar

uuidd daemon: This daemon provides universal unique identifiers – essential for creating database keys. (See SAP Note 1310037 for more details.)

tcsh : program for executing install.sh afterward

unrar : program for unzip rar files(the files format we have downloaded from SAP page)

4. Change the Proxy settings, if you are behind a proxy

I'll skip this section because I'm not behind a proxy. If you want to set it, please refer Customer guide.

5. Set DHCP Settings to NO

In YaST > System > Network Settings > Set Hostname via DHCP = No

6. Start uuidd daemon with shell script and also we need to check libaio or libaio1 is installed on your Linux system

sudo service uuidd start
sudo service --status-all | grep uuidd
rpm -qa | grep libaio

7. Edit the hostname and hosts files

by entering sudo vi /etc/hostname , we can change hostname to 'vhcalnplci'

sudo vi /etc/hostname

After changing it, we can check the hostname and restart network by entering sudo rcnetwork restart

sudo rcnetwork restart

And Restart your linux instance and check that the hostname has changed to 'vhcalnplci'

8. Map the IP Address to the new hostname :

We can find IP address with IP address command

ip address

Open the host files by entering sudo vi /etc/hosts Using this IP address, add a new entry of the form

sudo vi /etc/hosts

<IP address> <hostname> <hostname>.dummy.nodomain
<IP address> vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain

Check the changes by using the command sudo cat /etc/hosts

cat /etc/hosts

9. Copy the ABAP files using WinSCP

Using IP Address above, we can access SFTP via WinSCP program. I've made a new directory 'ABAP' and copy all extracted data to that directory(without client directory)

All extracted files will be copied to VM in few minutes.

We need to Change License file manually

From the extracted 'License' directory, there is a 'SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic' file.

We need to copy to VM Instance directory '/server/TAR/x86_64/SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic' (file name should be changed)

If there is SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic file already, overwrite it.

Add : April 27, 2023.

In case of you are using previous license version which is valid until March, 2023, And such case of you have already installed NPL system, you need to update to a recently distributed license.

Guide : You can refer this link page

10. Assign root privileges

Change the access rights of the install scipt :

sudo -i
chmod +x install.sh

INSTALL THE AS ABAP SERVER

Finally, we can run installation script by entering

./install.sh

Read and accept the license agreement (167 lines). To escape from the License Agreement, choose “Esc” followed by “:q”.
When prompted for the OS user’s password enter your master password of the virtual Linux OS instance twice
Be patient, this will take a while…
If the installation is successful, you will see something like this:

Getting started

Starting and stopping the server

To start the SAP system:

Switch to user npladm with default password in the console: su npladm

su npladm

To start the SAP system, enter startsap

startsap

To stop the SAP system, switch to user npladm and enter stopsap.

stopsap

Install SAP GUI For Windows

You can install SAP GUI For Windows at the <install_folder>\client\SAPGUI4Windows\50144807_6.ZIP

In the extracted archive, navigate to …PRES1\GUI\Windows\Win32\SetupAll.exe and run it, following the instructions in the Wizard.

Connecting to the ABAP server from SAP GUI for Windows

To connect to the ABAP server using SAP GUI for Windows:

Navigate to your Windows hosts file: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
Open this file in Administrator mode and add the following lines:

<ip_address> vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain

In the SAP Logon pad, choose New > Connection:
Choose User-specific system and enter the following, entering your own IP address:

• Application server = <ip_address>

• Instance = 00

• System ID = NPL

ABAP License Key

Start the SAP System and create a SAP GUI connection as above.
Log on to the system with the client 000 and user SAP* with default password Down1oad . In transaction SLICENSE , note down or copy your Active Hardware Key.
Request the license key for your trial version at SAP License Keys for Preview, Evaluation and Developer Versions

NOTE: Do not use the link in the transaction SLICENSE in the panel Request License Key.

a) Select NPL – SAP NetWeaver 7.x (Sybase ASE) as System ID.

b) Enter your personal data and agree to the License Agreement.

c) Choose Generate bottom right corner of screen.

d) The web site automatically generates a .txt file for this system/key. Download and save this file, eg on the desktop for convenience.

Go to transaction SLICENSE and install the license file:

a) In the tab Digitally signed licenses, delete the existing license, then choose Install. This opens the text file you got and installs the new license key.

Please note that all the above steps must be carried out; otherwise, the above user key will not work.

The system type changes to Demo. You can now explore the demo scenarios and develop using the ABAP tools in Eclipse and new features like the core data services or SAPUI5 UIs.

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