What is a SAR file ?

SAR files are  delivered by SAP for releasing supportpackages of Kernel and other OS level binaries.

 

How to extract a SAR file in SAP in Unix based operating systems(AIX / HP-UX ) :

Login to the system with sidadm user

Navigate to the path where the SAR file is located and use following command

to extract a SAR file.

SAPCAR -xvf <filename.SAR>

How to compress some files to generate a SAR file in SAP in Unix based operating systems(AIX / HP-UX ) ?

Login to the  system with sidadm user

Navigate to the path where the files that are to be compressed are located and  use the following command to compress a single SAR file.

SAPCAR -cvf <filename.SAR>

To compress multiple files, we can use the following command:

SAPCAR -cvf <compressed_filename.SAR> <file1> <file2> <file n>

What is SAPCAR ?

SAPCAR is an utility provided by SAP to compress or extract files (similar to winzip)

                                             Composite role is collection of single roles in simple words
 its like a container which is having collection of single roles.You will allowed to add a composite role within a composite role, so you can able to add single roles into 
composite roles only, it doesn’t have authorizations tab in the role menu in PFCG
 like other single roles but you will have Role tab instead.Composite role gives you 
greater flexibility  to hold number of roles can be added to one role and assigned to 
N number of users instead adding them individual.

          Example there is a team which performing PO create/approve activities in that 
case as a basis security administrator need to design a role which will enable them to 
fulfill their daily jobs and all the roles created for particular responsibility can  be 
combined into a single composite role.Composite enable the users to have   advantages 
of all single roles authorizations in their user master record.

Here we will see how to create a composite role

  1. Goto tcode PFCG and enter a role name for composite role and we have  following 
2 single role which we used it for creating composite role. 

ZTEST_ROLE

ZTEST_ROLE2

2. Now click “Create Compo.role” button as highlighted in the above screen and 
give short description about your roles in the “Description” text box

Then you need to enter detailed description why this role is created and who 
created it and what are the authorization it has, so future administrators can
 able to understand about need of this role

3. Save the role and goto “Roles” tab to add single roles like shown in the
 below screen

4. Click save and finish composite role creation and that’s it you have done it.

Now you just need to assign this role to required user to test and move it
 to quality system

Click here to Single role creation

Below are the steps needs to be performed as part of SAP post installation activities

1. Login to ddic username and execute SICK tcode

2. Goto RZ10 tcode and import the new profiles and add profile parameters according 
to your requirements

3.Execute slicense and install license for your system

4. Go to SE06 and select Standard Installation option hit execute, Click yes to initialize
 your CTS settings

5. Now goto STMS tcode and configure TMS

6. You can configure current system as DC(domain controller) or you can include into
 another domain, in this case I configure as domain controller

7. Now install SGEN i.e SAP load generator

8. Now go to SCC4 tcode and create a new client and perform client copy

9. After you created new client and make sure you copy ddic username and create new 
admin username and lock SAP* and DDIC usernames

10. Additionally you need to perform SAP Kernal upgrade as well as patching for OS and
 DB and check official installation guide in market place