Distribution Monitor import steps!

Hi ,
Below are the doubts what I have for Distmon.
1. DBSIZE.xml file is created in distmon dir where the preperation was run. Should we copy the same to install the target system to be issued in sapinst.
2. One of the package sapappl1 has become very big can we split the package, if yes how do we do that.
3. the DB dir and the dbsize.xml file is not available or not created in SapinstImport dir. should we creat the dir and mv dbsize.xml there.?
4. I have given 30 jobs, but the hardware utilization on both apps and db server was not more than 15%. but still the export of some of the bigger split tables took time. in the time file it gives abt 5 MB/min export time. what can be culprit here? is it hard disk or n/w ? or something else. We have collected the statistics before export.
Regards,
Ravi

> when a install the system through sapinst and arrive to the phase when sapinst asks me to use distribution monitor for import, i have the problem.
> When I try to import with DM i have the ORA-1017
> R3load -testconnect I
Check
Note 400241 - Problems with ops$ or sapr3 connect to Oracle
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I'm doing an unicode conversion in a EHP4 701 .
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When I try to import with DM i have the ORA-1017
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> when a install the system through sapinst and arrive to the phase when sapinst asks me to use distribution monitor for import, i have the problem.
> When I try to import with DM i have the ORA-1017
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We are planning to migrate the 1.2TB of database from Oracle 10.2g to MaxDB7.7 . We are currently testing the database migration on test system for 1.2TB of data. First we tried with just simple export/import i.e. without distribution monitor we were able to export the database in 16hrs but import was running for more than 88hrs so we aborted the import process. And later we found that we can use distribution monitor and distribute the export/import load on multiple systems so that import will get complete within resonable time. We used 2 application server for export /import but export completed within 14hrs but here again import was running more than 80hrs so we aborted the import process. We also done table splitting for big tables but no luck. And 8 parallel process was running on each servers i.e. one CI and 2 App servers. We followed the document DistributionMonitorUserGuide from SAP. I observerd that on central system CPU and Memory was utilizing above 94%. But on 2 application server which we added on that servers the CPU and Memory utilization was very low i.e. 10%. Please find the system configuration as below,
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> And also when i used top unix command on APP servers i was able to see only one R3load process to be in run state and all other 7 R3load process was in sleep state. But on central instance all 8 R3load process was in run state. I think as on APP servers all the 8 R3load process was not running add a time that could be the reason for very slow import.
> Please can someone let me know how to improve the import time.
R3load connects directly to the database and loads the data. The quesiton is here: how is your database configured (in sense of caches and memory)?
> And also if someone has done the database migration from Oracle 10.2g to MaxDB if they can tell how they had done the database migration will be helpful. And also if any specific document availble for database migration from Oracle to MaxDB will be helpful.
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--> FAQ
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Separate Distribution Monitor Export and Import Processes on Multiple Machines

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Would you kindly let me know whether it is possible (means officially supported way) to run Distribution Monitor Export and Import processes on different machines?
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> 1. DISTMON expects the export and import to be carried out on the same server
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Hi Yutaka,
Point no. 2 & 3 clarify the confusion. However let me explain it briefly:
Distribution Monitor is used basically in case of migration of large SAP systems (database). It provides the feature to increase parallelism of export and import, distributing the process across available systems.
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Hello all,
We are trying to use Distribution Monitor during a parallel Unicode Conversion on a SAP 4.7 system.
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Hi Chris,
1. Can we use Distribution Monitor with 1 source server dedicated for the Export and 1 target server dedicated for the import of a package? The Answer is No
In order to use Distribution monitor, u need minimum two application servers on source systems and correspondingly atleast minimum two application servers on target system
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Then configure Distribution monitor properties to include two application servers as source systems and two application servers as target systems. When u exeute distribution monitor preparation, first it scan database servers in source system nd target system and then scan CI servers in source and target system. Then Packages will be distributed in two application servers A and B
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3. Can we have a scenario where Distribution Monitor is used on the source system in order to use the parallelism benefit and Migration Monitor used on the target system? - The Answer is No.
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You have to use any one tool depending on the size of database used.
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We have successfully finished the preparation of distribution monitor.
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ERROR: 2011-08-26 13:38:49 com.sap.inst.distmon.ExportTask run
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Reason: 'java.lang.NullPointerException'.
ERROR: 2011-08-26 13:38:49 com.sap.inst.distmon.ExportTask run
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ERROR: 2011-08-26 13:38:49 com.sap.inst.distmon.ExportTask export -> checkDirStructure
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Please check: distribution_monitor_export.log
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Option2: When import, we can set SAPINST_HOSTNAME on target server, this can be set to HostnameS, but in /etc/hosts files, the IP address of this entry is point to HostnameS, I have not figured it out......
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