NetWeaver Portal 2004 > 2004s Upgrade on AIX/Oracle Platform

Although NetWeaver 2004 is an old system, still can be seen on market. Last month we did an upgrade from NetWeaver Portal 2004 > 7.3.

So, here is the quick guideline for upgrading from NetWeaver 2004 > 2004s  (aka 7.0)

The source environment below is as follow:

SAP Solution: NetWeaver Portal 2004 SP15

OS: AIX 4.3

DB: Oracle 9.2.0.6

Steps for Upgrade

A) Prerequisite Control

• Source release of your SAP system;
  • SAP Web Application Server 6.40 Support Package 09 or higher
  • SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0_640 Support Package 09
  • Adobe Document Services 1.0 Support Package 09
• Database version: At least Version 10.2.0.2 for the upgrade; you can run PREPARE with Version 9.2.0 or higher.
  • Our version: 9.2.0.6 

B) Steps for Upgrade

• Copy Upgrade DVDs onto server
  • Upgrade Master
  • Upgrade Export
  • Kernel
  • Oracle 10g
  • Oracle 10202 Patch
  • Oracle 10g Client
• Backup Whole System before upgrade
  • mkdir /upgrade/backup
  • cd  /upgrade/backup
  • tar -cvf usrsapEPQ.tar /usr/sap/EPQ
  • tar -cvf sapmntEPQ.tar /sapmnt/EPQ
  • tar -cvf oracleEPQ.tar /oracle/EPQ
• Upgrade Oracle 92 to 10202
  • Please check the Oracle 10.2 Upgrade Guide.
    
• run Prepare
  • Create Solman Key for Upgrade.
    
• run Upgrade
• Do the Corrections after Corrections
  • PROBLEM: Top Level Navigation disappeared
    • SOLUTION: Fixed Page Layout within the custom Framework.
  • PROBLEM: Masterhead images disappeared.
    • SOLUTION: We copied the image files under /usr/sap/EPQ/JC00/j2ee/cluster/server0/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/root/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.portaldesigndata/themes/portal/CustomTheme/common
  • PROBLEM: SLD is not accesible even with Administrator user.
    • SOLUTION: SLDAdmin Role Created (Actions assigned: LcrAdministrator, LcrClassWriter, LcrUser) and assigned to Administrator user.
      
• Backup before serving end-users.