What a Company expects from a 2-3yrs experienced person[Basis admin]

[former_member192421]

Hi Folks,

I am into SAP Basis Administration.

So can any one tell me, what a company may expect from me in terms of Basis knowledge(except Security)?

What are all the topics should I have covered with this much of years of experience?

I think, I lack in some of the fields of SAP Basis admin, may be because of limited exposer.

In other words

What are all the topics a 2-3 yrs of experienced guy must have?

Regards,

Rajkumar

[Former Member]

Rajkumar,

If you think about it, you already know what topics someone with 2-3 years of experience should have. The recommendation is that someone get a job working with SAP and get some limited training and/or some mentoring to get through the first year. Then after you've been working the job for a while, you go through the official training and certification. By the end of your second year, you should feel pretty comfortable discussing anything on the Competency Area tab at a high level and you should feel pretty comfortable discussing the details of several areas as you've been doing them day to day for 2 years. After three years, you should probably have been exposed to more areas and should be able to address a wider variety of topics in more depth.

You say you're worried that you've had limited exposure. Please describe your day to day duties and perhaps it will be easier to spot the holes for you.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

  --Tom

[former_member192421]

Hello Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

Right now I am in a support project, the works involves the followings.

In SAP part, I have familiar with the following works

• Manual monitoring of application servers for Response times, SAP Buffers, CPU utilization, Table spaces, Update monitoring, backgrounds jobs, Work process monitoring, No of active users, application monitoring, ABAP Dumps, checking backup successful or not etc.
• Performing daily health checkup of all SAP servers on landscape & tuning
• Background job scheduling & monitoring
• Client administration – creating, copying, deleting, export/import
• Change & Transport administration
• Configuration of CTS, Creating change requests and performing export and import of transports for R/3 system, Checking, Analyzing and troubleshooting transport issues
• Analyzing system errors & ABAP dumps
• Monitoring the lock entries and Monitoring of exclusive locks and dead locks
• Monitoring of failed updates and informing the user
• Installed and configured SAP Library
• Familiar with System Refresh activities.
• Spool administration
• Providing developer key to ABAP developers
• Setting up & Monitoring of Daily, weekly and monthly batch jobs
• Opening OSS connections for SAP to trouble shoot Issues in our Systems
• Applying OSS notes using SNOTE
• Performed Kernel & Kernel Patch Upgrades
• Applying Support packages
• SAP License administration
• Familiar with Alert Monitors, setting & configuring SAP Alerts
• Creation and maintenance of RFC connections
• Installation of IDES systems for training purpose
• System Log monitoring
• Setting up Operation Modes
  

In Oracle part, the followings

• Performing daily health check for databases
• Table Space Administration, Table reorganization, Rebuilding Indexes using BR*TOOLS
• Regular monitoring of database and archive backups and troubleshooting backup issues
• Table Export and Import
• Applying patches for Oracle database
• Scheduling Backups and Monitoring database backup, failures and trouble shooting on backup failure.

One question here...What would be the good career option in future for a Basis administrator?

Thanks Again...

Regards,

Rajkumar

[Former Member]

Hey Rajkumar,

Looks like you're covering the types of things that typical junior Basis folks do. I wouldn't be too concerned. As your career grows, you'll migrate up the food chain and away from day to day hands-on towards more planning and 2nd/3rd level troubleshooting.

You might want to read FAQ: Middle and Late SAP Career Paths for some ideas as well.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

  --Tom

[former_member192421]

Thanks Tom...for your inputs...