SAP BASIS OVERVIEW

SAP basis – its purely back-end activities of SAP Any module. Like assigning of required roles/access to respective environments (dev,qua and prod). Installation module related patches and integrating with other modules.Try to understand clearly the SAP Landscape and the different components with work together in a harmonized way.Understand the different activities that a Basis Consultant has to do. Find out the maintenance activities that are done by Basis Team, and the different architectures that are used by different companies. A good web search will get you a wealth of information which you need to understand.It depends upon a company which database they are using or going to use, DB2 is from IBM and Oracle DB is a product of Oracle. PL/SQL is independent so it won’t matter much which DB you are going to learn, try to learn and understand the DB concept, different components of a DB, all this will help you build a solid base. Keep reading the different documents/blogs/articles/Q&A posted by SCN Community members as they will give you deep information about the real time experience of SAP.

SAP BASIS CONSULTANT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

ADMINISTRATION INCLUDES USER ADMIN, CLIENT ADMIN, AND BACKUP IN SAP ENVIRONMENTS

to do user administration like creating and deleting users, assigning and resetting passwords, locking and unlocking users.

to troubleshoot security or authorization problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM

to create roles using different methods like transactions, direct objects, missing authorizations, restrictions..etc

to analyze and fix missing authorizations

to do client administration like local client copies, remote client copy, create and deleting clients.

to create and restore data backups

to do printer or spool configuration and administration

to manage the database space allocation

How to Copying the one user Use transaction SU01 or, from the System Administration Assistant Running Your Display Tasks (transactionSSAA), choose Entire view. SAP System Administration – Additional Administration Tasks System Users: Copying a User. In transaction SU01, enter ADMIN##, choose Copy, then enter the name BASIS##. Deselect Authorization profiles and Activity groups. Enter a new password for BASIS## twice and save.

What is the total number of clients supported per SAP system?

Its from 000 to 999. Total 1000 clients are supported per SAP System.

to do user administration like creating and deleting users, assigning and resetting passwords, locking and unlocking users.

MAINTENANCE INCLUDES MONITORING THE SERVERS, BACKGROUND JOBS, SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND AVOIDING BOTTLENECKS IN SAP ENVIRONMENTS.

to monitor and manage the servers, background jobs, performacne of the system

to monitor the status of work processes, application servers and system logs etc

to rectify any type of problem related to operating systems

to configure SAP GUI at client computers

to rectify minor networking problems

should have through understanding of IP address configurations and pinging concept

must able to troubleshoot any client or server problems

to create RFCs and should be able to configure TMS (Transport Management System)

PERFORM DAY TO DAY BASIS ADMIN RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDING TROUBLESHOOTING, ANALYZE LOAD, ALERT MONITOR AND CONFIGURATION

IMPORTANT PARAMETERS & TABLES DAILY MONITORING TCODES & TOP SAP BASIS CRITICAL ADMINISTRATIVE TASK

Basis consultant should be able to handle the administration of sap including the installation, configuration and maintenance.

Installation may include SAP R/3, ECC, Net weaver, Net Weaver components, Solution Manager Etc.

to do the sap license management ( SLICENSE,SAPLICENSE-SHOW)

to analyze the ABAP dumps

to do system copies

SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR JOB PROFILE

SAP ADMINISTRATION

Starting and Stopping SAP instance/(s)

User Administration-Setup & Maintenance

Authorization/Role/ Profiles-Setup & Maintenance

Setup SAP Security

Maintenance of Systems Health

Monitor System Performance and Logs

Spool and Print Administration

Maintain System Landscape

Transport Management Systems

Manage Change Requests

Create/Manage Batch Jobs

Backup Schedule, run & Monitor Backup of SAP

Message Coordinates the communication between different instances of a single SAP

R/3 system. Used for Logon purpose and load balancing

Dispatcher Redirect the request from GUI client to free process

Dialog Interpreting the ABAP code and execute the business logic. Used for

interactive online processing

Batch For Background jobs

Enqueue Single ‘Central Lock Management Service’ that controls the locking

mechanism between the different application servers and the database.

Update Responsible for consistency in asynchronous data changes.

Gateway Used for transport of bigger amount of data between application servers as

well as external (non SAP) systems that communicate with SAP

Apply Patches, Kernel & OSS Notes

DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

Database Space Management

Database Backup

Database Recovery

Database log (Redo log, Archive Log) management

Database Performance Tuning

OPERATION SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Operating System Security

Operation System Performance Tuning

OS Space management

OS level background Job Management

OS level backup and recovery

OVERALL SYSTEM MONITORING

Monitoring R3 Servers and Instances

Monitoring Users and Authorizations

Monitoring Security Part

Monitoring workload analysis

Monitoring Processes

Monitoring Buffers

Monitoring Operating system

Monitoring Database

Monitoring Backups