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community.sap_install Ansible Collection

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Description

This Ansible Collection executes various SAP Software installations and configuration tasks for various SAP solutions and deployment scenarios on supported Linux operating systems.

Included roles cover range of tasks:

  • Preparation of Operating system and SAP installation media before installation
  • Installation of SAP Database, either SAP HANA or Oracle Database
  • Installation of SAP Products, like SAP S4HANA, SAP BW4HANA, SAP Netweaver, SAP Solution Manager and others.
  • Configuration of replication of SAP HANA and High Availability clusters for SAP HANA and SAP Netweaver

Requirements

Control Nodes

Operating system:

  • Any operating system with required Python and Ansible versions.

Python: 3.11 or higher

Ansible: 9.9.x

Ansible-core: 2.16.x

NOTE: Ansible 10 and ansible-core 2.17.x are not supported, because of breaking changes requiring higher Python version on managed nodes.

Managed Nodes

Operating system:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5+ (SLE4SAP)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions 8.x 9.x (RHEL4SAP)

NOTE: Operating system needs to have access to required package repositories either directly or via subscription registration.

Python: 3.6 or higher

Installation Instructions

Installation

Install this collection with Ansible Galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_install

Optionally you can include collection in requirements.yml file and include it together with other collections using: ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml Requirements file need to be maintained in following format:

collections:
  - name: community.sap_install

Upgrade

Installed Ansible Collection will not be upgraded automatically when Ansible package is upgraded.

To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_install --upgrade

You can also install a specific version of the collection, when you encounter issues with latest version. Please report these issues in affected Role repository if that happens. Example of downgrading collection to version 1.4.0:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_install:==1.4.0

See Installing collections for more details on installation methods.

Use Cases

Example Scenarios

  • Preparation of Operating system for SAP installation
  • Preparation of SAP installation media for SAP installation
  • Installation of SAP HANA (including High Availability with replication) or Oracle Database
  • Installation of SAP S4HANA or other SAP products
  • Configuration of Pacemaker cluster for SAP HANA and SAP Netweaver

More deployment scenarios are available in ansible.playbooks_for_sap repository.

Ansible Roles

All included roles can be executed independently or as part of ansible.playbooks_for_sap playbooks.

Name Summary
sap_anydb_install_oracle Install Oracle DB 19.x for SAP
sap_general_preconfigure Configure general OS settings for SAP software
sap_ha_install_hana_hsr Configure and enable SAP HANA System Replication
sap_ha_pacemaker_cluster Configure Pacemaker cluster for SAP HANA and SAP Netweaver
sap_hana_install Install SAP HANA via HDBLCM
sap_hana_preconfigure Configure OS settings for SAP HANA database server
sap_hostagent Install SAP Host Agent
sap_install_media_detect Detect and extract SAP Software installation media
sap_maintain_etc_hosts Maintain the /etc/hosts file of an SAP software host
sap_netweaver_preconfigure Configure OS settings for SAP NetWeaver application server
sap_storage_setup Configure storage for SAP system (Folder structure, LVM, XFS, NFS)
sap_swpm Install SAP Software via SWPM

Testing

This Ansible Collection was tested across different Operating Systems, SAP products and scenarios. You can find examples of some of them below.

Operating systems:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5+ (SLE4SAP)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions 8.x 9.x (RHEL4SAP)

Deployment scenarios:

SAP Products:

  • SAP S/4HANA AnyPremise (1809, 1909, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) with setup as Standard, Distributed, High Availability and optional Maintenance Planner or Restore System Copy
  • SAP Business Suite (ECC) on HANA and SAP Business Suite (ECC) with SAP AnyDB - SAP ASE, SAP MaxDB, IBM Db2, Oracle DB
  • SAP BW/4HANA (2021, 2023) with setup as Standard or Scale-Out
  • SAP HANA 2.0 (SPS04+) with setup as Scale-Up, Scale-Out, High Availability
  • Other SAP installation activities; such as System Rename, System Copy Export, SAP Solution Manager and SAP Web Dispatcher

NOTE: It is not possible to test every Operating System and SAP Product combination with every release. Testing is regularly done for common scenarios: SAP HANA, SAP HANA HA, SAP S4HANA Distributed HA

Contributing

You can find more information about ways you can contribute at sap-linuxlab website.

Support

You can report any issues using Issues section.

Release Notes and Roadmap

You can find the release notes of this collection in Changelog file

Further Information

Variable Precedence Rules

Please follow Ansible Precedence guidelines on how to pass variables when using this collection.

Getting Started

More information on how to execute Ansible playbooks is in Getting started guide.

License

Apache 2.0