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

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