Since yesterday the maintenance update saptune 3.2.3 is available for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP7 […]

Yesterday the maintenance update saptune 3.2.2 has been released for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP7 It contains only a HotFix for the problem described […]

Last week the maintenance update saptune 3.2.1 has been released for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 In a few days: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server […]

Last Friday saptune 3.2 appeared in the repositories of: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP6 SUSE […]

You may have noticed, that again 3.1.5 appeared in the repositories for SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP3-6. 12 SP5: 3.1.5-4.39.2 15 SP3: 3.1.5-150100.8.51.2 15 SP4: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2 15 SP5: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2 15 SP6: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2 The packages only differ in the release part (after the dash), meaning that the package has been rebuild. To […]

Today 3.1.5 has been released for SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP3-6. It contains some small fixes: On Azure saptune will now create a drop-in for saptune.service when first called to be started after cloud-final.service. This is needed, because on Azure swap space will be created via cloud-init and some parameters tuned […]

Happy New Year! A fresh new year and a fresh `saptune` update as well. Today version 3.1.4 showed up in the repositories of SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP2-6, which contains only updated SAP Notes but no fixes. We have updated each SAP Note to the latest version and finally replaced the […]

If you check the repositories of SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP2-6 you find a saptune package 3.1.3. What does this update contain? Removal of SAP Note 1868829 from S4HANA-APPSERVER Solution Thanks to the customer who spotted this mistake, we missed for some time. SAP Note 1868829 – Startup Issues Because Number […]

This month we released a maintenance update for saptune: 3.1.2 I was asked by to write s a short blog post about the changes. Here it is! Reducing the lock scope To avoid several saptune processes to run simultaneously and creating a mess, saptune always set a lock on start. Only one saptune command should […]

This week an update of saptune has reached the repositories and the immanent question is: Do I have to update to 3.1.1? As you know, the general answer for that kind of question is always “yes”, but lets have a closer look. An increment at the third part of the version number indicates a bug […]

Last week saptune 3.1 was made available in all official repositories for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (saptune-3.1.0-4.15.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

In a few weeks saptune 3.1 will reach the public repositories of SLES for SAP Applications. Time to talk about the changes and new features. As always saptune 3.1 will be released for all Service Packs still in support, namely: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP […]

Recently we got again questions about the system state in the output of saptune status, so it’s time to talk about it. If everything is fine, you should get an output like this: # saptune status … system state: running … But, if not, then you will get: # saptune status … system state: degraded […]

Three weeks ago my colleague Bernd Schubert published a blog post about Discover the hidden treasure. This one is sort of a follow-up and describes, how to use the textfile.collector to retrieve data from saptune. I recommend to read his blog post first, because I’ll not explain everything in all details. “Wait!”, I hear you […]

After the blog post about ‘sapconf 5’ a few hours ago, I was asked by various people: Shall we use ‘sapconf 5’ instead of ‘saptune 2’? Before rumors or confusion spread, let me clarify. In short: If you have ‘SUSE Linux Enterprise Server’ only ‘sapconf’ is available. If you have ‘SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for […]

A few weeks ago I announced the new saptune version 2: A new saptune is knocking on your door The time of waiting is over! If you now run a zypper search -s saptune, you will find the saptune version 2 in the repositories of “SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP2-4/15/15 SP1”. Because we run […]

Saptune version 2 has been released a few days ago and as promised, I start my technical blog post series. Over the next few weeks I will add the links to the articles here. Let me answer the most important questions you might have first: What shall I do? Update now or wait? To answer […]

Last year I published a small post to compare sapconf and saptune:  sapconf versus saptune It would seem that there is still some confusion about it, so let me go a little bit deeper into the rabbit hole today. What is the difference between both? If you are running “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server” you will […]

With the release of the sapconf blog series (A new sapconf is available a lot of people approached me with questions about how both tools relate to each other. So I thought it would be a good idea to publish a small post about it. What is the purpose of both tools? Sapconf is a […]

This is the fifth and last article about sapconf and it will tie up lose ends. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. sapconf 4 → sapconf 5 The following list is quite long, so If decided to make two sections. One for sapconf 4 and one […]

This is the forth article about sapconf and it will cover the deinstallation NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. sapconf 4 → sapconf 5 Well nothing much to add here, besides that tuned is not covered anymore. Deinstallation Really? You want to get rid of it? Well… […]

This is the third article about sapconf and it will cover the update from a previous (not reworked) version to a reworked one. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. sapconf 4 → sapconf 5 This is the only comment about sapconf 5 I have added to this […]

This is the second article about sapconf and it will cover the configuration. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. Configuration Before I show you some details, I have to talk about the make-up of sapconf. In the past, sapconf was a simple shell script. With SLES […]

sapconf 4 → sapconf 5 For all the people who read this post for the first time: “Nice to meet you!” And for those who came back here due to my sapconf 5 announcement: “Welcome back!” I wracked my brain if I should have a new series about sapconf 5 or just add some comments […]