A Visual Installation Guide on Sneak Preview SAP NetWeaver 04 Java Edition

August 1, 2005 | 8 Views |

Sugree Phatanapherom

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I spent about one week to install Sneak Preview SAP NetWeaver 04 on my PC. I encountered a timezone problem during installation and login failure problem after installation. Finally, I found a perfect procedure to avoid all possible problems.

System Environment

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
Physical Memory 1 GB
Free Space in C: 50 GB
This machine is just a part of workgroup. style=”color: #FF0000″>It is not a member of domain.

Installation Steps

Make sure that you have installed main memory at least 512 MB. Otherwise, increase virtual memory to 1 GB
Apply all critical patches at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Install WinRAR (if you don’t have it yet). The latest trial version as of Today is available at http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar35b7.exe
Download J2SE SDK 1.4.2_08 and install it now if you don’t have it. By default, it will be installed at c:j2sdk1.4.2_08
Download the Sneak Preview

Extract the archives using WinRAR by right clicking on file NW04SneakPrevJavaSP11.part1.rar and choose Extract here. At this point , you should see a new directory NW04SneakPrevJavaSP11
Change regional setting in Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options as follows:
- Regional Options
  - Standards and formats: German (Germany)
  - Location: Germany
- Advanced
  - Language for non-Unicode programs: German (Germany)
Accept to reboot
Change timezone in Control Panel -> Date and Time to GMT+01:00 at Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna with Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes turned on
Run SAPinst.bat in directory NW04SneakPrevJavaSP11NWSneakPreviewSP11
Log off if necessary
Accept the license agreement
Specify J2SDK path
Leave database parameters as default but adjust I/O Buffer Cache to 128 MB
Enter Log size by 1500 MB or more
Enter Database volume by 1500 MB or more
Verify summary and start the execution
Congratulations! The software should be successfully installed on your machine. Do not test it immediately. Please follow the next step.
Start SAP Management Console on the desktop
At this point, you might see 3 instances here: a database and two SAP (instance number 0 and 1)
You might see the instance 0 is currently offline (grey). If yes, you need to start it now. The color will turn to yellow. It might take a while. Please wait until it is completely started (green).
Add en-us to Internet Explorer
Now you are ready to test NW’04 by opening http://localhost:50000/irj
Try to login with user admin and password admin

For timezone problem, you might try to change your timezone to any timezone with dayling saving enabled.

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Anonymous August 1, 2005 at 5:33 am

HI Sugree

Very useful weblog.I really want to try out this but i am not able to download the sneak preview from sdn. So if you can sent the sneak preview to my mail id, it would be of great help to me .
My mail id is urajeev2000@yahoo.com

Rajeev.

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1. Community User August 1, 2005 at 5:35 am
  
  The sneak preview is rather large, why not go over to the Downloads Forum and maybe they can help you with your download problem.
  
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  1. Raktim Banerjee December 7, 2005 at 8:07 pm
    
    Hi All
    I was facing the problem in installintion of sneak preview. I am using Windows XP Srrvice Pack 2. First thing I did is that I disabled windows firewall from control panel. Then also I was facing problem like localhost port 21212 is not connected. Then I opened this port in the McAfee Desktop Firewall. Then I faced series of problem related to firewall. I opened these ports : 7210, 3601, 3201 and 50020 . So please open those port or else disable any desktop firewall before installation.
    Regards
    raktim
    
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2. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 1, 2005 at 4:05 pm
  
  Actually, the Sneak Preview is available in http://ftp.sap.com or directly link to:
  ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/sdn/devkits/netweaver/java/NW04SneakPrevJavaSP11.part1.rar and
  ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/sdn/devkits/netweaver/java/NW04SneakPrevJavaSP11.part2.rar.
  
  Good luck.
  
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Oliver Stiefbold August 2, 2005 at 6:28 am

Hi,
thanx for your great weblog. Just a remark. IMHO it is not necessary to change language. But you have t change timezone.

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1. Basant Gupta August 2, 2005 at 7:05 am
  
  Why do you need to change the timezone? What if you’re in some other part of the world?
  
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  1. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 2, 2005 at 2:19 pm
    
    The export data has some parts containing daylight saving information. This information will not be imported correctly on timezone without daylight saving.
    
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    1. Siddhesh Ghag August 3, 2005 at 5:09 am
      
      I had not seen this weblog and went ahead without the timezone change.
      
      I got an error in the Load Java Database content phase the error description being Error in some date format or something like that..
      
      After changing the timezone and setting it to CET it worked…
      
      This blog is useful… thanks
      
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2. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 2, 2005 at 2:23 pm
  
  I don’t sure about language. Actually, at the second installation, I changed timezone and the installation process passes through without problem. Unfortunately, I can’t login with any users including SAP*. I tried to activate SAP* account in UME with no luck.
  
  At the third installation, I changed both language and timezone and everything worked fine. I repeated the steps again and it worked again. This weblog was my forth installation.
  
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P. Hurton August 2, 2005 at 12:34 pm

A good post, and I too struggled with this install. But IMHO, it ABSOLUTELY riciculous that one must go through such pain to try out this product. Other software vendors provide much simpler solutions. I think SAP could do much better!

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1. P. Hurton August 2, 2005 at 12:36 pm
  
  Just to be clear, I’m talking about the painful install process of sneak preview. WE do find the SAP EP quite powerful/useful. I don’t intend to indict the product only the painful install process
  
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  1. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 3, 2005 at 8:33 am
    
    I see your point. Unfortunately, nothing’s perfect. That’s why SAP has provides OSS note. And again, this is just a sneak preview made by limited developers. We are now beta testers. Next version will hopefully be better if we find and report bugs to the developers.
    
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2. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 2, 2005 at 2:26 pm
  
  IMHO, Web Dynpro is the best web programming model for now especially SLD make life simpler. You can set JCo destination dynamicly without hard-code.
  
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3. Anonymous August 2, 2005 at 10:57 pm
  
  Problem-free?? Perfect???
  
  What on earth has the IT world come to…
  
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Iyengar Karthik August 3, 2005 at 7:19 pm

I did this on a Windows XP system SP2. Added complexity f getting out of a domain, then changing the time-zone & getting back ino the domain to beat the password length logic. The time-zone change part & the painful way of dropping MaxDB either through DOS or the crude way of deleint registry entries & then the SAPDB folder made me waste a lot of time on this.

One of the most paiful installs I have been through. Thanks for your blog on the time-zone being set to GMT+1 – would you know why? The java.txt and java.load.txt were of more help than the log viewer.

Kartik Iyengar~

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1. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorAugust 3, 2005 at 7:38 pm
 
 Good point! I forgot to indicate that my machine has not been a member of any domain at all. Shortly, the installation failure usually doesn’t depend on OS but its setting (timezone/domain/policy).
 
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2. chess mennow November 12, 2005 at 8:37 pm
 
 HI Karthik,
 Netweaver Java Edition Preview install is hanging at phase 18 (Load Java Database Content). java.txt and java.load.txt don’t have any errors or exception. I found that the last entry in java.txt is 13.11.05 04:17 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload dbImport INFO: table J2EE_CONFIGENTRY created and the last entry in java.load.txt is 13.11.2005 04:17:21 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload dbImport INFO: EP_LOCK_APPLS loaded (1 rows).
 
 Can u let me know what information can we obtain from java.txt and java.load.txt and how long does it take for phase 18 (Load Java Database Content) to finish.
 
 Thnx
 
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 1. Sugree Phatanapherom Post authorNovember 12, 2005 at 10:23 pm
 
 It may take so long time at phase 18. For me, it took 6 hours or more depending on machine load during installation.
 
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 1. Mohammad Gufran February 4, 2006 at 1:23 am
 
 Use the right version of JDK, either J2SE 1.4.2.07 or J2SE 1.4.2.08 for the installation.
 
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 2. Sasi Kiran Upadrasta April 8, 2007 at 10:15 pm
 
 Hi, Please set the following Environment Variables: JAVA_HOME: <JDK-INSTALL-PATH> JAVA_SAPINST_JRE: <JDK-INSTALL-PATH>\jre Also add <JDK-INSTALL-PATH>\bin to the ‘Path’ Environment Variable. With 768MB RAM, the installation took just around an hour on my machine.
 
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Adam Reeves August 3, 2005 at 10:39 pm

I presume that one can revert this to their original values after the install.

I would also like to add that when extracting the second rar archive it seems to have duplicate files to the first archive, this concerned me at first and I performed the extract in different directories to check. A bit time consuming, so just to let you know that this seems to be normal, so just answer yes to overwrite all files.

Another bit of information, as this web log suggests once installed, you have to startup up one of the sap instances in the SAP management MMC. You do say this may take a while, mine took about 1 hour and the log files were detailing connection timeouts, again this appears normal, just wait for it to startup.

Good web log though, save me a lot of time, I had orginally tried installing the Linux version of this trial got very close but failed, I will probably return back to Linux once the issues have been ironed out with that version.

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Stefan Blumer August 31, 2005 at 5:39 am

All stated is true. I’ve installed now on two different PC and had several pains. The domain is a real pain and one best removes the PC from it to go around password policies. I also run into an issue with my second install where I run out of disk space. One would assume that after freeing up some additional room on the hard drive the PBNW install process can be restarted. That was not true in my case, I got an error message that the dB connection could not be established. So I tried to uninstall a partial installed PBNW… Removing the dB was a major issue, I had to go true the registry and delete all SAP related entries manually (a 3 hour job!). After that the install worked fine.

Thanks for providing all this info.
Stefan

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1. nathaniel briggs September 1, 2005 at 12:17 am
  
  Sugree and/or Anyone else:
  
  I’ve had nothing but problems installing this product: NetWeaver 04 Sneak Preview Slim SP11
  
  Every time I install, it simply loops back to “Restarting/Logging Out” (See Log Below)
  
  I’ve followed the instructions *(above & else in this blog/site), and triple checked everything.
  
  Platform: Windows XP Pro
  User: Administrator
  
  SAP Install Log:
  
  WARNING 2005-09-01 00:40:40 [ianxbusprv.cpp:271]
  CIaNtUserPrivileges::add_impl(., EBOLA\Administrator, SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege)
  
  Could not determine whether the current user has the right SeTcbPrivilege.
  INFO 2005-09-01 00:40:40 [ianxbusprv.cpp:327]
  CIaNtUserPrivileges::add_impl(., EBOLA\Administrator, SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege)
  
  Successfully added privileges ‘SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege’ to account ‘EBOLA\Administrator’ on host ‘.’.
  WARNING 2005-09-01 00:40:40
  CJSlibModule::writeWarning_impl()
  SAPinst needs to log you off………
  __________________________________________________
  
  LOG OUT & LOG IN
  __________________________________________________
  
  INFO 2005-09-01 00:44:44
  CJSlibModule::writeInfo_impl()
  File not found: [C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/sapinst_exe.2776.1125560364/msvcp71.dll].
  INFO 2005-09-01 00:44:44
  CJSlibModule::writeInfo_impl()
  File not found: [C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/sapinst_exe.2776.1125560364/msvcr71.dll].
  WARNING 2005-09-01 00:44:45 [ianxbusprv.cpp:271]
  CIaNtUserPrivileges::add_impl(., EBOLA\Administrator, SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege)
  
  Could not determine whether the current user has the right SeTcbPrivilege.
  INFO 2005-09-01 00:44:45 [ianxbusprv.cpp:327]
  CIaNtUserPrivileges::add_impl(., EBOLA\Administrator, SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege)
  
  Successfully added privileges ‘SeTcbPrivilege SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege’ to account ‘EBOLA\Administrator’ on host ‘.’.
  WARNING 2005-09-01 00:44:45
  CJSlibModule::writeWarning_impl()
  SAPinst needs to log you off ……..
  ___________________________________________________
  
  LOG OUT & LOG IN
  __________________________________________________
  
  INFO 2005-09-01 01:02:11 [synxcsymgt.cpp:133]
  CSySystemMgtImpl::reLogin()
  Switching user: new user (unknown)
  
  FAIL
  
  Any feedback/help? ‘Cause I’ve seriously had it…
  
  NB @ syntheticmagic@yahoo.com
  
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Thomas Brückner April 10, 2006 at 9:54 pm

Hi, I’ve already spent some hours trying to install the NW 04 Sneak Preview. It seems to work fine, but the trouble is, I cannot login. I’ve tried admin/admin, but always get the message that the login failed. Same thing with the administration tools. Did anybody face the same problem?

Thanks,
Thomas

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1. Haresh Khandal April 10, 2006 at 11:20 pm
  
  Hi,
  
  I do face the same problem. After giving username as admin and password as admin. It gives error message.
  
  If you’ve solved it out, please let me know what to do for it.
  
  I have tried to create new user, which is successfull.
  
  Thanks,
  
  -Haresh
  
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2. Barbara Stephens October 6, 2006 at 5:47 am
  
  I have installed SAP NetWeaver 04 Java Edition and successfully. I tried to test NW’04 http://localhost:50000/irj, but not able to login with user: admin and password: admin
  
  Any help is appreciated.
  
  Thanks,
  Barbara
  
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  1. Sasi Kiran Upadrasta April 8, 2007 at 10:11 pm
    
    Please use: user id as Administrator instead of admin.
    
    Hope it will solve your problem. (It worked for me)
    
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Yohan Attal February 6, 2007 at 4:32 am

Hello,

I’m facing a problem while installing SAP NetWeaver 2004S under my system (Windows XP SP2 1Go Ram). I got the administrator rights and exit my antivirus. I got this message log in the berginning of the installation:

[…]
Execute step setNWOption of component |NW_Java_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_Onehost_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_getJavaHome|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0.
INFO 2007-02-06 14:06:39
Execute step collect of component |NW_Java_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_Onehost_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_GetSidNoProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0.
WARNING 2007-02-06 14:06:40
Error 5 (Accès refusé.
) in execution of a ‘RegOpenKeyEx’ function, line (69), with parameter (SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk).
WARNING 2007-02-06 14:06:40
The subkey ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk’ does not exist on the ‘localhost’ host.
ERROR 2007-02-06 14:06:40
MOS-01185 The subkey ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk’ does not exist on the ‘localhost’ host.
ERROR 2007-02-06 14:06:40
FCO-00011 The step collect with step key |NW_Java_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_Onehost_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_GetSidNoProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|collect was executed with status ERROR .

Looks like it can’t find the registry linked to the disk. Would someone be helpful and explain to me what’s wrong ?

Thanks you!

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1. Peta Gergen May 29, 2007 at 4:24 pm
  
  Hi
  
  Had a similar problem with NW2004s on my mchine with the following error:
  ERROR 2007-05-30 10:21:25
  MOS-01185 The subkey ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BlackICE’ does not exist on the ‘localhost’ host.
  
  The Solution was to delete and recreate the registry entry from another similarly configured machine. After more discussion among colleagues there may be another explanation in that the registry hive permissions did not allow sapinst to read the affected key and thus it returned an error.
  
  Best Regards
  Peta M Gergen
  pgergen@kpmg.com.au
  
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