AutoStart/AutoStop NW04s Portal on Windows 2003

Question

Hi All,
I'm looking to configure my NW04s Portal's to autostop during maintenance windows for offline backups and autostart when finished.
Most of the threads I have seen are for EP6 and do not seem to be applicable as my NW04s Portl's do not have a jcontrol_<system #>.pfl or start_<system #>.pfl. I have also seen threads that identify go.bat working together with services.ini but the only go.bat files that I have on my system are used for Visual Admin ans JSPM.
Any example scripts or documentation would be great.
Thanks!
Dana

Answer 1

Hi,
Portal can started and stopped via startsap and stopsap commands via Command Prompt.
STARTSAP.EXE name=<SID> nr=<SYSNR> SAPDIAHOST=<host>
STOPSAP.EXE name=<SID> nr=<SYSNR> SAPDIAHOST=<host>
Those exe's can be found under Drive:\usr\sap\<SID>\SYS\exe\run
So you have to create a batch file (backup_offline.bat) and configure them like below:
Following is for an offline Windows backup. To configure a  bks file for automatic Windows backup, please search Google with "automated windows backup" or "ntbackup bks" strings. Also have a look at ntbackup options.
You can then schedule this batch file via windows scheduler or other sw.
backup_offline.bat
rem **** STOPPING J2EE ****
stopsap name=<SID> nr=00 sapdiahost=<hostname>
rem **** STOPPING CI ****
stopsap name=<SID> nr=01 sapdiahost=<hostname>
rem **** BACKUP usr\sap ****
ntbackup.exe backup "@D:\Scheduling\backup_fs_j2ee_online1.bks" /n "backup_fs_j2ee_online%date:-7,2%%date:4,2%%date:-4,4%.bkf created -%date:-7,2%%date:4,2%%date:-4,4%" /d "Set created :%date:-7,2%%date:4,2%%date:~-4,4%" /v:no /r:no /rs:no /hc:off /m daily /j "backup_fs_j2ee_online1" /l:s /f "D:\Backup_Dir\FS_J2EE\backup_fs_j2ee_online%date:-7,2%%date:4,2%%date:~-4,4%.bkf"
rem **** STARTING CI ****
startsap name=<SID> nr=01 sapdiahost=<hostname>
rem **** STARTING J2EE ****
startsap name=<SID> nr=00 sapdiahost=<hostname>