This Sandbox environment contains everything you need for practicing ABAP development along with BI/BW development. ECC modules like FI, CO, MM, etc. are not included in this trial and must be licensed directly from SAP
In order to complete this tutorial, you will need access to an Ubuntu 16.04 server.
We will be completing the steps in this guide using a cloud hosted Ubuntu Server as this will enable us to access our SAP Server from any machine, anytime, anywhere. We’ll need to register for the T80 server (usually around $24.99/month)
Once you’ve signed up for your server, it should take around 10 minutes to provision. Let’s move on to the next step to log into our server using SSH.
Mac Instructions:
Open the terminal app:
Windows Instructions:
Once logged in as the root user, change your password to something you will easily remember:
passwd
Now perform an update:
sudo apt-get update
Update Hostname to vhcalnplci:
sudo nano /etc/hostname vhcalnplci
Update Hosts file to include your server IP:
sudo nano /etc/hosts your.ip.address vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain
Restart Ubuntu:
sudo reboot
Update packages:
sudo apt-get update
Install csh:
sudo apt-get install csh
Install libaio-dev:
sudo apt-get install libaio-dev
Navigate to root directory and create folder:
cd / mkdir sap752 cd sap752
Download SAP installation files:
wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_01.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_02.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_03.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_04.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_05.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_06.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_07.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_08.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_09.rar wget sapbwtraining.net/sap752_10.rar
Download extraction software:
sudo apt-get install rar unrar
Perform extraction:
rar x sap752_01.rar
Set root permissions and run installer
chmod +x install.sh ./install.sh
SAP will then check to make sure your hostname is vhcalnplci (we set this hostname and hosts file configuration in step 3). Press enter until prompted to type Yes.
Set up your SAP administrator password. This password must be entered using a US keyboard, alphanumeric, and not contain any special characters (?, $, *, %, @, _, -, etc…). An example of a password that would work is Password01
Password01
The SAP installation should take between 30-60 minutes to complete. You’ll know the install has finished when the screen reads “Installation of NPL successful”. At this point you know have a working SAP system you can log onto. In order to connect to our SAP system, we’ll need to use SAPGUI.
Download SAPGUI: 50127120_6.zip & Download SAPGUI Patch: gui740_14-80001174.exe
Once the downloads complete, right click on the 50127120_6.zip file and choose extract all (or unzip). Once the extraction completes, open the folder and navigate to the setup file: …PRES1 > GUI > WINDOWS > WIN32 > SetupAll.exe
At this point SAP Logon should be installed and displayed on your computers desktop. Now it’s time to patch SAPGUI. Run the gui740_14-80001174.exe file and if prompted, reboot.
Open SAP Logon and add a new connection. The description can be whatever you’d like but Application Server must be your Ubuntu server IP address:
Description: You can call this whatever you want
Application Server: This is your Ubuntu server IP address; e.g. 121.104.102.112
Instance Number: 00
System ID: NPL
Click finish and double click on the connection you just created to connect.
The first time we log on to SAP we’ll be using the SAP* user and Down1oad password in SAP client 001. SAP* is the SAP administrator account that has access to configure pretty much everything from a system/access perspective, however, this account does not have the ability to create programs or develop in BW. For those development related tasks you’ll need to log into SAP with the DEVELOPER account. A complete listing of SAP accounts can be found in the tables below:
The installed system provides the following SAP users in client 001:
User name Password Description DDIC Down1oad Data Dictionary User SAP* Down1oad SAP Administrator DEVELOPER Down1oad Developer User BWDEVELOPER Down1oad Developer User
The installed system provides the following SAP users in client 000:
User name Password Description DDIC Down1oad Data Dictionary User SAP* Down1oad SAP Administrator
Log into SAP client 001 using user SAP* and password Down1oad
Now that you’re connected to SAP, navigate to transaction SLICENSE. Delete the existing license and navigate to go.support.sap.com/minisap. Locate the NPL – SAP NetWeaver 7.x (Sybase ASE) radio button. Click the radio button and scroll down entering your information along with the most important part from SLICENSE, your Hardware Key. Accept the license agreement and click generate. A file called NPL.txt will download to your machine and you’ll need to go back to SLICENSE to install this NPL file you just downloaded. Repeat this step every 90 days.
Update windows hosts file
SAP recently moved some BW functionality out of SAPGUI onto a web browser. In oder to configure SAP and your browser you’ll need to navigate to:
C: Windows > System32 > drivers > etc > hosts
You won’t be able to modify the hosts file unless you first right click on the file and update the properties related to security. Ensure this file has full access to be updated from the security tab. Once that’s done, open the hosts file in a text editor / notepad.
Add the same line from step 3 above to this hosts file as well:
your.ip.address vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain
Activate BW objects:
Log out of SAP* and log in as developer. Go to transaction RSTCO_ADMIN. Click on the button Start Installation. If you’d like, you can monitor the job within transaction SM37. The activation job should run 15-30 minutes.
When this job completes you’re good to go! Have fun developing in SAP or SAP BW.
Starting SAP:
Log onto your Ubuntu Server and type
su npladm
Type in your SAP admin password you set during the SAP installation (the alphanumeric one).
Your terminal window will change and you’ll now be using the npladm user. To start SAP type:
startsap all
Stopping SAP:
stopsap all
You’ll need to manually start SAP this way if you ever restart your ubuntu server
