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Thursday 2 May 2013

How to restart any java application in SAP netweaver AS Java?


This article answers the following queries:

§      How to restart any application in SAP netweaver AS Java?
§      Which tools can be used to restart any java application in SAP netweaver AS Java?

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There will be many applications in SAP Netweaver As java. These java applications can be stopped, started or restarted using NWA tool and Visual administrator tools.

In this article, am covering the process to be followed to restart java application through NWA


Login  to SAP NWA tool through java link similar to below one providing hostname, port following by nwa quick link



i)              System prompts you to enter user id and password as shown below





















Authenticate yourself by providing administrator/j2ee_admin user id and password

ii)              Once logged in, you will see screen similar to below



















iii)              Navigate to System Management -> Administration -> Applications as shown in below figure.









iv)              In the above screen, from the dropdown box of show, select “ALL applications” and in the Get dropdown box, select Application name as shown in below screen which displays all the applications and their status. 















v)  Select the application on which you want to perform start/stop. 

Once you select the service respective operation is highlighted. i.e. if application is currently stopped, it provides option for you to start it and viceversa.

If you would like to restart a service, first of all stop it and then start it.













How to view SAP support pack schedule?

This article answers following queries in sap

§      How to view SAP support pack schedule?
§      Where can we get SAP support pack schedule information?
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In real time, you may wish to perform support pack upgrade for an application like ECC. In those cases, you may be interested to know, when is the next support pack stack release for specific application, so that you can plan upgrade accordingly.

You can get SAP support pack schedule from Service Market Place(SMP).

To view the SAP support pack schedule, please navigate as follows:
In SMP, Go to “Software Downloads” tab  -> “SAP Software Download Center” -> “SAP Support package stacks” -> SP Stacks maintenance schedule


Please refer below screenshot which shows the navigation







On the right side of the above screen, you can view the release week of every application. The week number on which support package stack will be released for each application will be given. The week number starts at 1 (indicating 1st week of Jan) and it goes on.
You can have complete view of the schedule by collapsing the left side window.

































In the above screenshot, you can view that SAP ERP 6.0 ,  support pack level 23 will be released in 16th week of 2013 in Quarter 2.


Similarly SAP Netweaver 7.0, support pack level 28 will be released on 4th week of 2013 in Quarter1







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