Change in Host Name in SAP 4.7 R/3 Environment

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

We are running SAP 4.7 R/3 in our office with two servers production and development. Production Server with hostname :- production-2 & SID - "PRD" and Development Server with hostname :- hpserver & SID - "TES"

Recently, our development server crashed...

I installed SAP 4.7 R/3 in new hardware server with hostname as "DEVELOPMENT" & SID as "TES". Successfully restored oracle database from old development server and further applied SAP license key.

Today night, we are taking the new development server alive, my question is will there be any problems because of change in hostname (from old development server with hostname:-hpserver to new development server with hostname:-development) ???

Regards,

M Sridhar Srinivas

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[Matt_Fraser · Accepted solution]

Hi Sridhar,

This should be fine, assuming you used the homogeneous system copy to achieve migrating the system to the new hardware. The biggest change you will have to make is in STMS, making sure the hostname is correct and consistent in your transport landscape. You also need to ensure that your production system correctly references the new hostname via the alias SAPTRANSHOST, and that it has the correct privileges to the \usr\sap\trans directory on the new development system (assuming your development system is your transport controller).

Obviously, SAP Logon entries on clients that use the development server will need to be updated.

Otherwise, it depends on what you have for interfaces. If your interfaces reference the hostname for some reason, either via variants or (hopefully not) hard-coded, or from external configuration, those will need to be updated.

Regards,

Matt

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you somuch Matt....you are 100% correct.