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Acquire media for BOM creation

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The SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework uses a Bill of Materials (BOM). To create your BOM, you have to locate and download relevant SAP installation media. Then, you need to upload these media files to your Azure storage account.

Note

This guide covers advanced deployment topics. For a basic explanation of how to deploy the automation framework, see the get started guide instead.

This guide is for configurations that use either the SAP Application (DB) or HANA databases.

Prerequisites

  • An SAP account with permissions to download the SAP software and access the Maintenance Planner.
  • An installation of the SAP download manager on your computer.
  • Information about your SAP system:
    • SAP account username and password. The SAP account cannot be linked to a SAP Universal ID.
    • The SAP system product to deploy (such as S/4HANA)
    • The SAP System Identifier (SAP SID)
    • Any language pack requirements
    • The operating system (OS) to use in the application infrastructure
  • An Azure subscription. If you don't already have an Azure subscription, create a free account.

Acquire media

To prepare for downloading the SAP installation media:

  1. On your computer, create a unique directory for your stack SAP downloads. For example, ~/Downloads/S4HANA_1909_SP2/.

  2. Sign in to SAP ONE Support Launchpad.

  3. Clear your download basket.

    1. Go to Software Downloads.

    2. Select Download Basket.

    3. Select all the items in the basket.

    4. Select the X to remove all items from the basket.

  4. Add the utility SAPCAR to your download basket.

    1. On the search bar, make sure the search type is set to Downloads.

    2. Enter SAPCAR in the search bar and select Search.

    3. In the table Items Available to Download, select the row for SAPCAR with Maintenance Software Component. This step filters available downloads for the latest version of the utility.

    4. Make sure the drop-down menu for the table shows the correct OS type. For example, LINUX ON X86_64 64BIT.

    5. Select the checkbox next to the filename of the SAPCAR executable. For example, SAPCAR_1320-80000935.EXE.

    6. Select the shopping cart icon to add your selection to the download basket.

  5. Sign in to the Maintenance Planner.

  6. Design your SAP system. For example, if you're using S/4HANA:

    1. Select the plan for SAP S/4HANA.

    2. Optionally, change the Maintenance Plan name.

    3. Select Install New S4HANA System.

    4. Select Next

    5. For Install a New System, enter the SAP SID you're using.

    6. For Target Version, select your target SAP version. For example, SAP S/4HANA 2020.

    7. For Target Stack, select your target stack. For example, Initial Shipment Stack.

    8. If necessary, select your Target Product Instances.

    9. Select Next

  7. Design your codeployment.

    1. Select Co-Deployed with Backend.

    2. For Target Version, select your target version for codeployment. For example, SAP FIORI FOR SAP S/4HANA 2020.

    3. For Target Stack, select your target stack for codeployment. For example, Initial Shipment Stack.

    4. Select Next

  8. Select Continue Planning. If you're using a new system, select Next. If you're using an existing system, make the following changes:

    1. For OS/DB dependent files, select Linux on x86_64 64bit.

    2. Select Confirm Selection.

    3. Select Next.

  9. Optionally, under Select Stack Independent Files, configure settings for non-ABAP databases. You can choose to expand the database and deselect non-required language files.

  10. Select Next.

  11. Download stack XML files to the stack download directory you created earlier.

    1. Select Push to Download Basket.

    2. Select Additional Downloads.

    3. Select Download Stack Text File.

    4. Select Download PDF.

    5. Select Export to Excel.

    6. Go to your download basket again in the SAP Launchpad. You might need to refresh the page to see your new selections.

    7. Select the T icon to download a file with the URLs for your download basket.

Get download basket manifest

Important

Only follow these steps if you want to run the scripted BOM generation. You must perform these actions before you run the SAP Download Manager. If you don't want to run the scripted BOM generation, skip to the next section.

To get your SAP Download Basket manifest JSON file (DownloadBasket.json):

  1. Open the Postman utility.

  2. Add a new request by selecting the plus sign (+) button in the workspace tab. A new page opens with your request.

  3. On the Params tab, set the request type to GET.

  4. For the request URL, enter https://tech.support.sap.com:443/odata/svt/swdcuisrv/DownloadContentSet?_MODE=BASKET_CONTENT&_VERSION=3.1.2&$format=json.

  5. Select the Authorization tab.

  6. For Type, select Basic Auth.

  7. For Username, enter your SAP username.

  8. For Password, enter your SAP password.

  9. Select the Headers tab.

  10. Uncheck the Accept-Encoding and User-Agent check boxes

  11. Select the Send button.

  12. On the Body tab, make sure to select the Raw view.

  13. Copy the raw JSON response body. Save the response in your stack download directory.

Download media

To download the SAP installation media:

  1. On your computer, run the SAP Download Manager.

  2. Sign in to the SAP Download Manager.

  3. Access your SAP Download Basket.

  4. Set your download directory to the stack download directory that you created. For example, ``~/Downloads/S4HANA_1909_SP2/`.

  5. Download all files from your download basket into this directory.

Note

The text file that contains your SAP download URLs is always myDownloadBasketFiles.txt. However, this file is specific to the application or database. You should keep this file with your other downloads for this particular section for use in later sections.

Upload media

To upload the SAP media and stack files to your Azure storage account:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

  2. Under Azure services, select Resource groups. Or, enter resource groups in the search bar.

  3. Select the resource group for your SAP Library.

  4. On the resource group page, select the saplib storage account in the Resources table.

  5. On the storage account page's menu, select Containers under Data storage.

  6. Select the sapbits container.

  7. On the container page, upload your archives and tools.

    1. Select the Upload button.

    2. Select Select a file.

    3. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the SAP media previously.

    4. Select all the archive files. These file names are similar to *.SAR, *.RAR, *.ZIP, and SAPCAR*.EXE.

    5. Select Advanced to show advanced options.

    6. For Upload Directory, enter archives.

  8. Upload your stack files.

    1. Select the Upload button.

    2. Select Select a file.

    3. Navigate to the download directory that you created in the previous section.

    4. Select all your stack files. These file names are similar to MP_*.(xml|xls|pdf|txt).

    5. Select Advanced to show advanced options.

    6. For Upload Directory, enter boms/<Stack_Version>/stackfiles where <Stack_Version> is a combination of your product information. For example, S4HANA_2020_ISS_v001 indicates the product type is S4HANA, the product release is 2020, the service pack is ISS for the initial software shipment, and the stack is v001.

Next steps

Prepare BOM