Software Provisioning Manager SP21, Unsupported Distro

[UweFetzer_se38]

With the Fiori (?) / Browser based SWPM Sp21 I'm not able to install my playground systems on CentOS anymore.

Directly after starting the manager I'm getting the following warning:

With the old Java based SWPM I was always able to ignore such warnings. But here there's just a cancel button, which (obviously) cancels the installation.

Is there a workaround (modifying some XMLs or something) so the installation would accept CentOS? Or is it possible to connect the Java Gui (./sapinstgui) to the new SWPM?

Any ideas?

Cheers, Uwe (aka @se38)

[BJarkowski · Accepted solution]

Hi,

to enable the old-style GUI mode, please start the sapinst with parameter SAPINST_SLP_MODE=false:

./sapinst SAPINST_SLP_MODE=false

Regarding the issue with CentOS you could give it a try with adding additional parameter SAPINST_SKIP_ERRORSTEP, but this might bring some unexpected results so please be careful 🙂

[UweFetzer_se38 · Accepted solution]

Ok, SAP really changed the checks on the Linux distro. Also the old Gui stopped (or not, see below) with this message:

But this time the installation didn't stop as expected but continued to the installation detail selection 🙂

Problem solved, Thank you!!!

[former_member361580 · Accepted solution]

Hi

This does not work starting SP23 as the JAVA GUI is completely disabled. Is there any other way?

The SAPINST_SKIP_ERRORSTEP=true also doesn't help as it still lands on the unsupported distribution page.

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have the same problem. changed temporarly the

/etc/os-release File and added a /etc/SuSE-release.

SWPM works!

p00:/etc # cat SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12
PATCHLEVEL = 1
# This file is deprecated and will be removed in a future service pack or release.
# Please check /etc/os-release for details about this release.
p00:/etc # cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="12-SP1"
VERSION_ID="12.1"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1"
ID="sles"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp1"
p00:/etc #

[Former Member]

Hi,

The same behavior for SWPM SP24. On ScienteficLinux(I guess the same for CentOS) change of /etc/os-release is not required. It is enough to add /etc/SuSE-release.

Cheers,

I.