Introduction

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 Vagrant box can be used to create a VirtualBox instance with Vagrant to install SAP NW AS ABAP 752 SP04 Developer Edition .

All recommended system preparations are done by packer and vagrant, as described at Installing ABAP AS on Oracle VirtualBox.

The pre-built Vagrant Box is now avaiable on HashiCorps Vagrant Cloud:

https://app.vagrantup.com/wechris

The Packer calls are no longer necessary. If you want to create your own Vagrant Box with Packer see the optional section below.

The Vagrantfile makes the following settings automatically:

• uuidd.sh => installes and starts the UUIDD service
• changetogerman.sh => changes the keyboard layout to german
• gnome.sh => installes the Gnome Desktop, FireFox, VSCode, Chromium, Gnome-Terminal, GVim, Libreoffice, Nautilus Explorer, YAST2 and JAVA SAP Machine 11 + OpenJFX (to get ready to install SAPGUI JAVA)
• sapinst.sh (+install_nw_expect) => installes the SAP NW AS ABAP 7.52 SP04 – Developer Edition is the installation files are avaiable in the ./sapint folder
• autostart.sh => appends the appends the "Autostart = 1" to the DEFAULT.PFL profile file.

Prerequisites

On OS X VirtualBox and Vagrant, is available via Homebrew on Windows via Chocolatey.

OS X:

$ brew install virtualbox
$ brew install vagrant

optional:

$ brew install vagrant-manager

Usage

Clone the reporitory wechris/SAPNW752SP04.

Download and extract the TD752SP04.partXX.rar files to the folder: ./sapinst

The actual download (in the form of several .rar files), along with more information, is available here:

SAPStore: ABAP 7.52SP04

Search for “7.52 SP04” for convenience.

Download and uncompress all files to:

./sapinst/

without the folder: ./TD752SP04

Vagrantfile

Only VirtualBox:

If the german keyboard is not desired, comment the following line in the Vagrantfile

# config.vm.provision "shell", path: "install/changetogerman.sh"

If the gnome desktop is not desired, comment the following line in the Vagrantfile

# config.vm.provision "shell", path: "install/gnome.sh"

If the autom. installation of the SAP Netweaver 7.52SP04 is not desired, comment the following line in the Vagrantfile

# config.vm.provision "shell", path: "install/sapinst.sh"

If the Autostart function is not desired, comment the following line in the Vagrantfile

# config.vm.provision "shell", path: "install/autostart.sh"

Disable the UI of VirtualBox, comment the following line in the Vagrantfile

# vb.gui = true

Vagrant start

vagrant up --provision --provider virtualbox

or with debug option for more details:

vagrant up --provision --provider virtualbox --debug 2>&1 | Tee-Object -FilePath ".\vagrant.log"

On Windows Powershell

vagrant up --provision --provider virtualbox &> vagrant.log

or with debug option for more details:

vagrant up --provision --provider virtualbox --debug &> vagrant.log

Wait until the vagrant command is finished. Then restart the instance with:

vagrant reload

The vagrant box SAPNetWeaver7.52SP04 comes up with the login screen of Gnome Desktop.

Now you can use the VirtualBox UI, if the UI option was activated:

Login

Logins:

• vagrant/vagrant
• root/vagrant
• npladm/ pwd from install_nw_expect Default: Down1oad

or use SSH into a running Vagrant machine:

vagrant ssh

Start/Stop the VBox with:

vagrant up
vagrant halt

or with the virtualbox UI. (The /vagrant folder will not be avaiable without the vagrant command!)

Post and optional installation steps

SAPGUI JAVA installation

The folder `/vagrant/sapinst/client/JavaGUI/contains the installation files of SAPGUI JAVA: _PlatinGUI7505-80002496.JAR.

run:

java -jar PlatinGUI750_5-80002496.JAR

and follow the installation. Click on the New icon, fill the fields and enter the following connection on the panel Advanced:

conn=/H/127.0.0.1/S/3200

Open the new JavaGUIService:

Manual install of SAP NW AS ABAP 752 SP04 Developer Edition

The files and folder, on the same level as the vagrant file, will be available under /vagrant

sudo -i
<enter pwd Default: vagrant>
cd /vagrant/sapinst
./install.sh -s

Installation options:

• ./install.sh – installs the Developer Edition in dark mode, the installer will configure the SAP system for usage of the physical hostname
• ./install.sh -g– will present you a SAPINST GUI allowing you to modify certain system parameters
• ./install.sh -h – allows you to specify your own hostname to be used by the SAP system
• ./install.sh -s – allows you to skip the hostname check )

Read and accept the license agreement. When prompted for the OS users password enter your master password of the virtual Linux OS instance.

Start the SAP system:

• Switch to user npladm in the console : su npladm
• Start the SAP system : startsap ALL

Additional informations, License key and first steps follow SAP NW AS ABAP 7.52 SP04 – Developer Edition to Download: Concise Installation Guide

Optional

The Packer template to build the openSUSE Leap 15.1 Vagrant box is available here

Packer

cd packer
cd openSUSE-15.1
$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso template.json

And change the following line in the Vagrant file:

config.vm.box = "openSUSE-15.1"
config.vm.hostname = "vhcalnplci"
config.vm.box_url = "./packer/openSUSE-15.1/openSUSE-15.1-virtualbox.box"

#  config.vm.box = "wechris/OpenSUSE-15.1_sapnw752"
#  config.vm.hostname = "vhcalnplci"
#  config.vm.box_version = "1.0.0"

The Vagrant box will be loaded locally.