Downtime Phase

Question

Hello All,
Would just like to ask for your feedback on this activity EHP4. We almost complete the preparation steps and reached the end of step "Preprocessing".
However, there were certain steps that we need to do prior to the "downtime" phase:
- Stop all production activities now. --- no users already logged on the system
-Make sure that all users have logged out. --- no users already logged on the system
--Isolate the central instance. For more information, see the installation guide. --- does it mean we need to shutdown the SAP instance?
Backup the complete installation directory now (including subdirectory "sdt"). > Caution: To restart the program from this point, you must be able to restore the database and the program directory to the current state  -- installation directory has been backed-up already.
Hope to see your feedback. Thank you.

Answer 1

I checked the table and it shows in shadow system that this table has an inconsistency.
Logs:
Check: Active runtime object for VZFZE is Inconsistent                                                                                           
Transparent table                 VZFZE                                                                               
Time stamp runtime object:        19.10.2006  15:35:10                                                  
Time stamp ABAP:                  05.05.2004  03:21:55                                                  
Time stamp DYNP:                  05.05.2004  03:21:55                                                                               
@1B@Fields: Active runtime object and Active source has Inconsistent                                                                   
Active runtime object     Active DD source     Field position     Depth in nested structures     Data Type     ABAP length     DB length     Decimal places     Field offset     Output length
MANDT                     MANDT                1     0     CLNT          6     6     0     0     3
BUKRS                     BUKRS                2     0     CHAR          8     8     0     6     4
SVORGANG                  SVORGANG             3     0     NUMC          20     20     0     14     10
LFDNR                     LFDNR                4     0     CHAR          6     6     0     34     3
SBUAKT                    SBUAKT               5     0     NUMC          6     6     0     40     3
SATZART                   SATZART              6     0     CHAR          20     20     0     46     10
SOBJEKT                   SOBJEKT              7     0     CHAR          20     20     0     66     10
VARLNG                    VARLNG               8     0     INT2          2     2     0     86     5
XVAR700                                        9     0     LCHR          2000     2     0     88     1000
                          XVAR700                                                                              2400     2.4                                         1200