Software Update Manager: Clean up tasks, Shadow Instance & Temp. Tablespace X

[#1]

Hi Experts,

I wanted to know that after an upgrade activity using SUM (Software Update Manager) how should I proceed with the cleanup tasks.

As SUM uses a shadow instance for the upgrade and for which a temporary table space is required, we can release some space once the upgrade has completed, right?

In my case (SPS08 upgrade in Solution Manager 7.1), a temporary tablespace PSAPSR3702X of 32GB was required before execution.

So I created that in order to upgrade my system.

My upgrade went successful, and now I would like to cleanup the space that was occupied during the upgrade.

I believe that scope here for cleanup is:

1) The temporary SAP Tablespace PSAPSR3720X (32 GB), data file is under /oracle/<SID>/sapdata4

2) SUM Directory (Upgrade directory /usr/sap/<SID>/SUM, which is 21G and contains the logs,files, shadow instance)

What should be the approach to process the clean-up post upgrade?

A) Is this approach feasible?

1. Stop SAP & DB
2. Drop SAP Temporary Tablespace
3. Drop SUM Directory
4. Start SAP & DB and validate

I also looked up SAP note 1732061, which is central note for SUM, it talks about, Do not select "Cleanup and start afresh" before finalization.

So in the postprocessing phase after the upgrade completes and just before Finalization phase, I have selected "Continue" as per the above mentioned note during the upgrade.

B) Or is it that, if I start SUM again and I get an option in the beginning "Cleanup & Start Afresh" which shall do the necessary cleanup, though I am not really sure, if this the possible feature of SUM!

Which is the correct approach? Could you please suggest, as I have worked with SUM for the first time.

Regards,

Akshay.

[Nibu]

Hi Akshay,

Do not select the cleanup option now, you are supposed to finish the process.

Once finished , you can go ahead cleaning up the SUM directory and dropping of unused tablespace . I reccomed you do this dropping first at your staging server before proceeding the dev/qa/prd .

[Akshay_G]

Thanks Nibu, for the feedback.

As we don't have a central SUM staging area, we will clean up the local SUM with shadow instance and drop the tablespace which got freed during update.

Thanks,

Akshay.