While starting the SWPM tool for a system installation I came across this message:
./sapinst SAPINST_USE_HOSTNAME=hostname [==============================] - extracting... done! SAPinst build information: -------------------------- Version: 749.0.23 Build: 1763064 Compile time: May 19 2017 - 07:46:46 Make type: optU Codeline: 749_REL Platform: linuxx86_64 Kernel build: 749, patch 217, changelist 1761678 SAP JRE build: SAP Java Server VM (build 8.1.030 25.51-b02, Apr 26 2017 16:01:22 - 81_REL - optU - linux amd64 - 6 - bas2:288514 (mixed mode)) SAP JCo build: 3.0.16 SL-UI version: 2.5.30 SAP UI5 version: 1.42.4 Exe directory: /share/packages/SWPM/tmp/sapinst_exe.29580.1497432865 load resource pool /share/packages/SWPM/resourcepool.xml INFO 2017-06-14 09:35:17.155 (root/sapinst) (SLPCommunicator) [/bas/749_REL/bc_749_REL/src/ins/SAPINST/impl/src/guiengine/SLPMonitoringStatemachine.cpp:1355] ******************************************************************************** Access URL for GUI is https://hostname:4237/w8RbRSZrzplmfEY9/docs/index.html Logon users: [root] ********************************************************************************
sapinst was hanging here without starting the GUI window
It looks like starting with SWPM PL 19, the installer can start now in two ways:
– new web browser based, the link where this can be accessed appears in the sapinst log
– or the classic Java GUI based. This is not available by default anymore, in order to access this in the old way, you have to use sapinst with the command line option SAPINST_SLP_MODE=false
Example:
./sapinst SAPINST_USE_HOSTNAME=hostname SAPINST_SLP_MODE=false