Installing an SAP System Using Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM)

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to download and use SWPM

Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM)

Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) Overview

  • SWPM is a tool that provides easier and more reliable software provisioning.

  • SWPM is the successor of the product and release specific delivery of provisioning tools.

  • SWPM provides the latest SAPinst version with software provisioning services for several products and releases for all platforms. These services enable you to profit directly from up-to-date procedures that are powered by a reliable tool that is available and used for years.

  • SWPM offers the relevant procedures that are required to install, copy, and transform SAP systems in your SAP system landscape.

  • SWPM is delivered in regular intervals, independent from SAP application product shipments via the Software Logistics Toolset (SL Toolset). This toolset is a central collection of software logistic tools and is always up to date.

Characteristics of the SL Toolset

  • The SL Toolset consists of software that can be downloaded from the SAP Support Portal.

  • The SL Toolset is being updated quarterly, product independent, and downward compatible.

  • Software updates include new tools as well as recent improvements and enhancements.

SWPM Identification and Downloading

You can download the current version of SWPM at https://support.sap.com/sltoolset.

Downloading Software Provisioning Manager and Corresponding Kernel Media

Caution

We recommend that you download the latest version of the tool, as it contains latest corrections.

SWPM Extraction and Checking

After downloading the relevant archive and the corresponding kernel installation media, extract the SWPM archive by using the tool sapcar.

Extracting SWPM

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