sap directory structure and its importance

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Raj

SAP Directory structure is a files and folder locations in a computer after installation of sap system. we have to understand this directory structure to understand the concept of TMS, PATCH Management and System profiles. There are 3 folders resides in 4.7 system are sapinst, usr and oracle. sapinst always will be located in c:\sapinst and oracle and usr directories will be located in either D: or E: according to the selection of drives while installation. There are some important directories to understand in sap system to do basis administration in cool manner. The directories and it’s importance are…

1. C:\sapinst (4.7) or C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir (ECC 6.0): This directory stores all installation logs along with DLLs and XMLs

2. \usr\sap: usr stands for unix system resource and the shared names of SAP are sapmnt and saploc. sapmnt is used to by sap server to access system specific infromation and saploc is used by sap server to access local information

3. /usr/sap/trans: This directory is ment for transport mechanism4. /usr/sap/trans/bin: This directory stores all the configuration of TMS in the

form of TP_DOMAIN_SID.PFL and this file is very important for entire transport mechanism

5. /usr/sap/trans/cofiles: This dirctory is used by profile to store the information about released or exported transport request in the form of k<no>sid

6. /usr/sap/trans/data: Data folder stores the physical program or table in the form of r<no>sid once the transport is released from the system

7. /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in: EPS stands for Electronic Parcel Service and in stores all the uncared or unzipped patches which are downloaded from service market place

8. /user/sap/sid/DVEBMGS/work: Work directory stores all the logs of the work processes

9. /usr/sap/sid/sys/exe/run: RUN directory stores all the executables through which sap functions and it is called as kernel directory

10. /usr/sap/sid/sys/profile: These are called system profiles. There are 3 system profiles. They are start, default and instance profiles and are in the form of DEFAULT.PFL, START_DVEBMGS00_Hostname and DVEBMGS00_Hostname

Transport = Export +  Copy + Import