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Download SAP software

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You need a copy of the SAP software before you can use SAP Deployment Automation Framework. Prepare your Azure environment so that you can put the SAP media in your storage account. Then, download the SAP software by using Ansible playbooks.

Prerequisites

  • An Azure subscription. If you don't have an Azure subscription, you can create a free account.
  • An SAP user account (SAP-User or S-User account) with software download privileges.

Configure a key vault

First, configure your deployer key vault secrets. For this example configuration, the resource group is DEMO-EUS2-DEP00-INFRASTRUCTURE or DEMO-SCUS-DEP00-INFRASTRUCTURE.

  1. Sign in to the Azure CLI with the account you want to use.

    az login

  2. Add a secret with the username for your SAP user account. Replace <keyvault-name> with the name of your deployer key vault. Also replace <sap-username> with your SAP username.

    export key_vault=<vaultID>
sap_username=<sap-username>

az keyvault secret set --name "S-Username" --vault-name $key_vault --value "${sap_username}";

  3. Add a secret with the password for your SAP user account. Replace <keyvault-name> with the name of your deployer key vault. Also replace <sap-password> with your SAP password.

    sap_user_password="<sap-password>
az keyvault secret set --name "S-Password" --vault-name "${key_vault}" --value "${sap_user_password}";

  4. Two other secrets are needed in this step for the storage account. The automation framework automatically sets up sapbits. It's always a good practice to verify whether they existed in your deployer key vault or not.

    sapbits-access-key
sapbits-location-base-path

Download SAP software

Next, configure your SAP parameters file for the download process. Then, download the SAP software by using Ansible playbooks.

Configure the parameters file

To configure the SAP parameters file:

  1. Create a new directory called BOMS.

    mkdir -p ~/Azure_SAP_Automated_Deployment/WORKSPACES/BOMS; cd $_

  2. Create the SAP parameters YAML file.

    cat <<EOF > sap-parameters.yaml
---
bom_base_name:               S41909SPS03_v0010ms
kv_name: Name of your Management/Control Plane keyvault
..
EOF

  3. Open sap-parameters.yaml in an editor.

    vi sap-parameters.yaml

  4. Update the following parameters:

    1. Change the value of bom_base_name to S41909SPS03_v0010ms.

    2. Change the value of kv_name to the name of the deployer key vault.

    3. (If needed) Change the value of secret_prefix to match the prefix in your environment (for example, DEV-WEEU-SAP).

Run the Ansible playbooks

You're ready to run the Ansible playbooks. One way you can run the playbooks is to use the validator test menu.

  1. Run the download menu script:

    ~/Azure_SAP_Automated_Deployment/sap-automation/deploy/ansible/download_menu.sh

  2. Select the playbook to run. For example:

    1) BoM Downloader
2) Quit
Please select playbook:

Another option is to run the Ansible playbooks by using the ansible-playbook command.

ansible-playbook                                                                                   \
  --user        azureadm                                                                           \
  --extra-vars="@sap-parameters.yaml"                                                              \
  ~/Azure_SAP_Automated_Deployment/sap-automation/deploy/ansible/playbook_bom_downloader.yaml

Next step

Deploy the SAP infrastructure