SAP BASIS
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 troubleshoot security or authorization problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM
- 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)
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
