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Added by Mohammed Touseef Uddin Qureshi, last edited by MaheshKumarM on Aug 23, 2013 (view change) show comment Go to start of metadata Transaction Code For Basis Administration. SU01 User Maintenance

AL11 Display SAP Directories

SU01D User Display

BD54 Maintain Logical Systems

SU02 Maintain Authorization Profiles

OSS1 Logon to Online Service System

SU03 Maintain Authorizations

SALE IMG Application Link Enabling

SU05 Maintain Internet users

SARA Archive Management

SU10 User Mass Maintenance

SICK Installation Check

SMLG Maintain Logon Group

SM14 Update Program Administration

SUPC Profiles for activity groups

SM35 Batch Input Monitoring

SUIM Info system Authorizations

SM56 Number Range Buffer

PFCG Profile Generator

SM58 Asynchronous RFC Error Log

PFUD User Master Data Reconciliation

SM59 RFC Destinations (Display/Maintain)

S002 Easy System Administration Menu

SAINT SAP Add-on Installation Tool

ZAUT maintenance. Requesting new users, changing authorisation,

SPAM SAP Patch Manager (SPAM)

etc.

Client Administration:

SPAU Display modified DE objects SPDD Display modified DDIC objects

SCC3 Checking Client Copy Log

ST11 Display Developer Traces

SCC4 Client Administration SCC5 Client Delete

Daily monitoring TCodes:

SCC7 Client Import Post-Processing

SM04 User List

SCC8 Client Export

AL08 Current Active Users

SCCL Local Client Copy

SM12 Display and Delete Locks

SCC9 Remote client copy

SM13 Display Update Records SM21 System Log

Database Administration:

SM50 Work Process Overview SM51 List of SAP Servers

DB01 Analyze exclusive lock waits

SM66 System Wide Work Process Overview

DB02 Analyze tables and indexes

ST22 ABAP/4 Runtime Error Analysis

DB12 DB Backup Monitor

ST01 System Trace

DB13 DBA Planning Calendar

ST02 Setups/Tune Buffers

DB15 Data Archiving: Database Tables

ST04 Select DB activities (SQL Server Performance Analysis)

ST04 SQL Server Performance Analysis

ST05 Performance trace

DB50

ST06 or ST06N Operating System Monitor

RZ20

ST10 Table call statistics

Transport Management System:

ST03 Performance, SAP Statistics, Workload SU56 Analyze User Buffer

STMS Transport Management System

STAD User transaction Analysis

SE01 Transport and Correction System

OS07N

SE06 Set Up Workbench Organizer

SM02 System Message

SE07 CTS Status Display Other Monitoring Tcodes: SE09 Workbench Organizer ( Release Transport ) SE10 Customizing Organizer

OS01 LAN check with ping

SE11 ABAP/4 Dictionary Maintenance

RZ01 Job Scheduling Monitor

SE16 Data Browser

RZ03 Presentation, Control SAP Instances

SE80 Repository Browser

ST07 Application monitor

SM30 Call View Maintenance

STAT Local transaction statistics

SM31 Table Maintenance

SFW5 - Change Business Function Status

SCC1 Transport Role from one Client to Other

Other Useful Transactions Codes

Background Jobs Administration: AL22 Dependent objects display SM36 Define Background Job

BAOV Add-On Version Information

SM37 Background Job Overview

SA38 ABAP reporting

SM39 Job Analysis

SE38 ABAP Editor

SM49 Execute External OS commands

HIER Internal Application Component Hierarchy Maintenance

SM62 Maintain Events

ICON Display Icons

SM64 Release of an Event

WEDI IDoc and EDI Basis

SM65 Background Processing Analysis Tool

WE02 IDoc display

SM69 Maintain External OS Commands

WE07 IDoc statistics WE20 Partner profiles

Spool Administration:

WE21 Port definition WE46 IDoc administration

SP01 Output Controller

WE47 Status Maintenance

SP11 TemSe directory

$TAB Refreshes the table buffers

SP12 TemSe Administration

$SYNC Refreshes all buffers, except the program buffer

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Added by Sujeet Mishra, last edited by Sujeet Mishra on Sep 11, 2013 Go to start of metadata AL01 SAP Alert Monitor AL02 Database alert monitor AL03 Operating system alert monitor AL04 Monitor call distribution AL05 Monitor current workload AL06 Performance: Upload/Download AL07 EarlyWatch Report AL08 Users Logged On AL09 Data for database expertise AL10 Download to Early Watch AL11 Display SAP Directories AL12 Display table buffer (Exp. session) AL13 Display Shared Memory (Expert mode) AL15 Customize SAPOSCOL destination AL16 Local Alert Monitor for Operat.Syst. AL17 Remote Alert Monitor for Operat. Syst. AL18 Local File System Monitor AL19 Remote File System Monitor AL20 EarlyWatch Data Collector List AL21 ABAP Program analysis AL22 Dependent objects display CREF Cross-reference BD64 BSVW Linkage Status Update-Workflow Event CMOD Enhancements DB01 Analyze exclusive lock waits DB02 Analyze tables and indexes DB03 Parameter changes in database DB11 Early Watch Profile Maintenance DB12 Overview of Backup Logs DB13 Database administration calendar DB14 Show SAPDBA Action Logs DB15 Data Archiving: Database Tables DB16 DB System Check: Monitor DB17 DB System Check: Configuration DMIG Start Transaction for Data Migration DB2 Select Database Activities DB20 DB Cost-Based Optimizer: Tab. Stats DB21 DB Cost-Based Optimizer: Config. DB24 Database Operations Monitor DB26 DB Profile:Monitor and Configuration

DB2J Manage JCL jobs for OS/390 DBCO Database Connection Maintenance FILE Cross-Client File Names/Paths NACE WFMC: Initial Customizing Screen OAA1 SAP ArchiveLink: Maint.user st.syst OAA3 SAP ArchiveLink protocols OAA4 SAP ArchiveLink applic.maintenance OAAD ArchiveLink Administration Documents OAC2 SAP ArchiveLink: Globaldoc. types OAC5 SAP ArchiveLink: Bar code entry OACA SAP ArchiveLink workflow parameters OAD0 SAP ArchiveLink: Objectlinks OAD2 SAP ArchiveLink document classes OAD3 SAP ArchiveLink: Link tables OAD4 SAP ArchiveLink: Bar code types OAD5 SAP ArchiveLink: Customizing Wizard OADR SAP ArchiveLink: Print list search OAM1 SAP ArchiveLink: Monitoring OAOR SAP ArchiveLink: Storeddocuments OARE SAP ArchiveLink:St.syst.return codes OS01 LAN check with ping OS03 O/S Parameter changes OS04 Local System Configuration OS05 Remote System Cconfiguration OS06 Local Operating System Activity OS07 Remote Operating SystemActivity OSS1 Logon to Online ServiceSystem OY18 Table history OY08 Development Class Overview PFCG Activity Group PFUD Authorization Profile comparison RLOG Data migration logging RZ01 Job Scheduling Monitor RZ02 Network Graphics for SAP Instances RZ03 Presentation, Control SAP Instances RZ04 Maintain SAP Instances RZ06 Alerts Thresholds Maintenance RZ08 SAP Alert Monitor RZ10 Maintenance of profile parameters RZ11 Profile parameter maintenance RZ12 Maintain RFC Server Group Assignment RZ20 CCMS Monitoring RZ21 Customize CCMS Alert Monitor SA38 ABAP/4 Reporting SAD0 Address Management call SADC Address: Maint. communication types SALE Display ALE Customizing SAINT Plug-in Installation SARI Archive Information System

SAR3 Customizing Archiving SAR4 Define Archiving Class SAR5 Assign Archiving Class SAR6 Archiving Time Generator SARA Archive management SARL Call of ArchiveLink Monitor SARP Reporting (Tree Structure): Execute SART Display Reporting Tree SB01 Business Navigator - Component View SB02 Business Navigator - Process flow vw SBAS Assignments to Process Model Elemts SC38 Start Report Immediately SCAT Computer Aided Test Tool SCC0 Client Copy SCC1 Client Copy - Special Selections SCC2 Client transport SCC3 Client Copy Log SCC4 Client administration

Some More Transactions 1.2 Go to start of metadata SCC5 Client Delete SCC6 Client Import SCC7 Client Import – Post Processing SCC8 Client Export SCC9 Remote Client Copy SCCL Local Client Copy SCDO Display Change DocumentObjects SCMP View / Table Comparison SCOM SAPcomm: Configuration SCON SAPconnect - Administration SCPF Generate enterprise IMG SCPR1 Customizing Profiles : Maintenance Tool SCPR2 Comparing Customizing profiles SCUA Central User Administration : Distribution Model Assigment SCUG Central User Administration Structure Display SCUL SCUM Central User Administration Field Selection SCU0 Table Analyses And Comparison SCU1 Table Comparison - Export to Tape SCU2 Table Comparison Against Tape SCU3 Table History SD11 Data Modeler SDBE Explain an SQL Statement SECR Audit Information System SE01 Transport and Correction System SE02 Environment Analyzer SE03 Transport Utilities SE06 Set up Workbench Organizer SE07 Transport System Status Display SE09 Workbench Organizer (Initial Screen) SE10 Customizing Organizer SE11 Data Dictionary Maintenance SE12 Data Dictionary Display SE13 Maintain Technical Settings (Tables) SE14 Convert Data Dictionary tables on Database Level SE15 Repository Info System SE16 Display Table Content SE17 Generate Table Display SE30 ABAP Objects Runtime Analysis SE32 ABAP Text Element Maintenance SE33 Context Builder SE35 ABAP/4 Dialog Modules SE36 Logical databases SE37 ABAP Function Modules SE38 ABAP Editor SE39 Splitscreen Editor: Program Compare

SE40 MP: Standards Maint. and Translation SE41 Menu Painter SE43 Maintain Area Menu SE51 Screen Painter SE52 Parameterized screenpainter call SE54 Generate table view SE55 Internal table view maintenance call SE56 internal call: display table view SE57 internal delete table view call SE61 R/3 Documentation SE62 Industry Utilities SE63 Translation: Initial Screen SE71 SAPscript form SE72 SAPscript Styles SE73 SAPscript font maintenance (revised) SE74 SAPscript format conversion SE75 SAPscript Settings SE76 SAPscript: Form Translation SE77 SAPscript Translation Styles SE78 SAPscript: Graphics administration SE80 Object Navigator SE81 Application Hierarchy SE82 Application Hierarchy SE84 R/3 Repository Information System SE85 ABAP/4 Repository Information System SE86 ABAP Repository Information System SE88 Development Coordination Info System SE89 Maintain Trees in Information System SE91 Maintain Messages SE92 New SysLog Msg Maintenance as of 46A SE93 Maintain Transaction Codes SE94 Customer enhancement simulation SE95 Modification Browser SEPS SAP Electronic Parcel Service SERP Reporting: Change Tree Structure SEU Repository Browser SF01 Client-Specific File Names SFAW Field Selection Maintenance SIAC1 Web Object Administration SHDB Record Batch Input SICK Installation Check SIN1 SAPBPT: Inbox SINA SAPBPT: Maintain Standard Config. SLG0 Application Log: ObjectMaintenance SLIN ABAP: Extended Program Check SM01 Lock Transactions SM02 System Messages SM04 User Overview SM12 Display and Delete Locks

SM13 Display Update Records SM14 Update Program Administration SM21 System log SM23 System Log Analysis SM28 Installation Check SM29 Model Transfer for Tables SM30 Call Up View Maintenance SM31 Table maintenance SM31_OLD Old Table Maintenance SM32 Maintain Table Parameter ID TAB SM33 Display Table ParameterID TAB SM34 Viewcluster maintenancecall SM35 Batch Input Monitoring SM36 Batch request SM37 Background job overview SM38 Queue Maintenance Transaction SM39 Job analysis SM49 Execute Logical Commands SM50 Work Process Overview SM51 List of SAP Servers SM54 TXCOM maintenance SM55 THOST maintenance SM56 Number Range Buffer SM58 Asynchronous RFC Error Log SM59 RFC Destinations (Display/Maintain) SM60 Borrow/Return Objects SM61 SM62 SM63 Display/Maintain Operating Mode Sets SM64 Release of an event SM65 Background Processing Analysis Tool SM66 System-wide Work Process Overview SM67 Job scheduling SM68 Job administration SM69 Display/Maintain Logical Commands SMEN Dynamic menu SMGW Gateway Monitor SMLG Maintain Logon Group SMLI Language import utility SMLT Language transport utility SMOD SAP Enhancement Management SMT1 Trusted Systems (Display Maint.) SMT2 Trusting systems (Display Maint.) SMW0 SAP Web Repository SMX Display Own Jobs SNRO Number Range Objects SO02 SAPoffice: Outbox SO03 SAPoffice: Private Folders SO04 SAPoffice: Shared Folders

SO05 SAPoffice: Private Trash SO06 SAPoffice: Substitutionon/off SO07 SAPoffice: Resubmission SO10 SAPscript: Standard Texts SO12 SAPoffice: User Master SO13 SAPoffice: Substitute SO15 SAPoffice: DistributionLists SO16 SAPoffice: Profile SO17 SAPoffice: Delete Shared Trash SO18 SAPoffice: Shared Trash SO19 SAPoffice: Default Documents SO21 Maintain PC Work Directory SO22 SAPoffice: Delete PC Temp. Files SO23 SAPoffice: DistributionLists SO24 SAPoffice: Maintenance of default PC SO28 Maintain SOGR SO30 SAPoffice: Reorg. SO31 Reorganization (daily) SO36 Create Automatic Forwarding SO38 SAPoffice: Synchr. of Folder Auths. SO40 SAPoffice: Cust. LayoutSet MAIL SO41 SAPoffice: Cust. LayoutSet TELEFAX SO42 SAPoffice: Cust.Layout Set TELEFAX_K SO43 SAPoffice: Cust.Layout Set TELEFAX_M SO44 SAPoffice: Cust. LayoutSet TELEX SO70 Hypertext: Display/Maint. Structure SO71 Test plan management SO72 Maintain Hypertext Module SO73 Import graphic into SAPfind SO80 SAPfind: Free Text Retrieval Dialog SO81 SAPfind: Free Text Indexing (Test) SO82 SAPfind: Free Text Retrieval Batch SO95 Pregenerated Search Queries - Selec. SO99 Put Information System SOA0 ArchiveLink Workflow document types SOBJ Attribute Maintenance Objects SOLE OLE Applications SOLI Load OLE type info SOPE Exclude Document Classes SOTD SAPoffice: Maintain Object Types SOY1 SAPoffice: Mass Maint. Users SOY2 SAPoffice: Statistics data collect. SOY3 SAPoffice: Statistics Evaluation SOY4 SAPoffice: Access overview SOY5 SAPoffice: Inbox overview SOY6 SAPoffice: Document overview SOY7 SAPoffice: Folder overview SOY8 SAPoffice: Mass Archiving SOY9 SAPoffice: Inbox Reorg.

SOYA SAPoffice: Change folder owner SP00 Spool and Relate Area SP01 Spool Control SP02 Display output Requests SP03 Spool: Load Formats SP11 TemSe Contents SP12 TemSe Administration SPAD Spool Management SPAM SAP Patch Manager (SPAM) SPAU Display Modified DE Objects SPCC Spool Consistency check SPDD Display Modified DDIC objects SPHA Telephony administration SPIC Spool : Installation Check SPRM Current Customizing SPRO Customizing SQ01 SAP Query: Maintain queries SQ02 SAP Query: Maintain funct. areas SQ03 SAP Query: Maintain user groups SQ07 SAP Query: Language comparison SQVI QuickViewer SSAA System Administration Assistant SSCA Appointment Diary: Administration SRZL CCMS SSM1 Session Manager generation call SSM5 Create Activity Group ST01 System Trace ST02 Setups/Tune Buffers ST03 Performance, SAP Statistics, Workload ST04 Select activity of the databases ST05 SQL Trace ST06 Operating System Monitor ST07 Application monitor ST08 Network Monitor ST09 Network Alert Monitor ST10 Table Call Statistics ST11 Display Developer Traces ST12 Application Monitor ST14 Application Analysis ST22 ABAP Runtime Error Analysis ST22 ABAP/4 Runtime Error Analysis ST62 Create industry short texts STAT Local transaction statistics STMS Transport Management System STUN Performance Monitoring STW1 Test Workbench: Test catalog STW2 Test workbench: Test plan STW3 Test workbench: Test package STW4 Test Workbench: Edit test package

STW5 C maintenance table TTPLA STZAC Maintain time zone act.in client STZAD Disp.time zone activat.in client SUMM Global User Manager

I am unable to give the answer for following questions. If anybody knows the answer, please update the answers and replay to all. It is really very help to all sap basis consultant. 1. What type of servers is used in sap(like HP or Dell Servers names)? 2. How do you configure System Landscape in your company? with detailed(dialog servers,Background jobs server need a diagram)? with clustering concept? 3. how you connect to servers? which VPN software is used? 4. Give me your daily activities in your company? 5. give the list of third tools which are used in your company? 6. In company how the roles are assigned[like monitoring(maintainence admin),config admin,install admin] how the work is assigned? 7. what kind of roles will be given to the basis admin or for abap users? 8. Solution manager is mandatory or optional....if it is mandatory how the monitoring will be done in sol.man? version? seperate employee will be there r basis admin look into it? 9. how to take backups, os / sap / oracle...is there any third party tools used? 10. can we say that i worked on the windows server? 11. where do we mention new user employee id and acc. number in su01? 12. describe database storage servers? 13. SM51 describe? process and errors? what to do? 14. differ application server and message server? how many application servers will be there? 15. Licensing process..complete ? developer key / SSCR key / Object Key? 16. when we do background jobs? 17. when using remote client copy entire data ,how much time it will take?approx? 18. archive administrator? 19. prodution servers how many? pre production servers? 20. ST22 ABAp dump analysis? describe scenarios? 21. GRC tools? third party tools for security? 22. in support project what kind of authorization we'll have? 23. Load balancing(SMLG), where and when we'll do?describe with scenario?

ibm: What is private mode? When does user switch to user mode? Private mode is a mode where the heap data is getting exclusively allocated by the user and is no more shared across the system. This happens when your extended memory is exhausted. How can I restrict the user from printing? (What authorizations should we disable) we can restrict using su01-defaults- clear the output device(if any). How can I restrict the user from printing? (What authorizations should we disable) Use the object S_SPO_DEV to restirct.

What is osp$ mean? What if user is given with this authorisation? OPS$ is the mechanism the adm users uses to connect to the database . Why do you use DDIC user not SAP* for Support Packs and SPam? Do _NOT_ use neither DDIC nor SAP* for applying support packages. Copy DDIC to a separate user and use that user to apply them. Can you kill a Job? Yes – SM37 – select – kill If you have a long running Job, how do you analyse? Use transaction SE30. How to uncar car/sar files in a single shot? on Unix: $ for i in *.SAR; do SAPCAR -xvf $i; done When we should use Transactional RFC ? A “transactional RFC” means, that either both parties agree that the data was correctly transfered – or not. There is no “half data transfer”. What is the use of Trusted system. I know that there is no need of UID and PWD to communicate with partner system. In what situation it is good to go for Trusted system ? E. g. if you have an R/3 system and a BW system and don’t want to maintain passwords. Same goes for CRM and a lot of other systems/applications. Let me know if my understanding below is correct: 1) By default the RFC destination is synchronous 2) Asynchronous RFC is used incase if the system initiated the RFC call no need to wait for the response before it proceeds to something else. Yes – that’s right. But keep in mind, that it’s not only a technical issue whether to switch to asynchronous. The application must also be able to handle that correctly. Which table contains the details related to Q defined in SPAM? Is there a way to revert back the Q defined? If yes, How? There is a “delete” button when you define the queue. If you already started the import it’s no more possible since the system will become inconsistent. What is a developer key? and how to generate a developer key?

The developer key is a combination of you installation number, your license key (that you get from http://service.sap.com/licensekey) and the user name. You need this for each person that will make changes (Dictionary or programs) in the system. What is XI3.0 ? EXPLAIN XI = Exchange Infrastructure – Part of Netweaver 2004. SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) is SAP’s enterprise application integration (EAI) software, a component of the NetWeaver product group used to facilitate the exchange of information among a company’s internal software and systems and those of external parties. Like other NetWeaver components, SAP XI is compatible with software products of other companies. SAP calls XI an integration broker because it mediates between entities with varying requirements in terms of connectivity, format, and protocols. According to SAP, XI reduces integration costs by providing a common repository for interfaces. The central component of SAP XI is the SAP Integration Server, which facilitates interaction between diverse operating systems and applications across internal and external networked computer systems. How to see when were the optimizer stats last time run? We are using win2k, oracle 9, sapr346c. Assumed DB=Oracle Select any table lets take MARA here but you should do the same for MSEG and few others to see whether the dates match or not.Run the following command on the command prompt:select last_analyzed from dba_tables where table_name like ‘%MARA%’; This gives you a straight answer .Else you can always fish around in DB14 for seeing when the optimzer stats were updated. What is the use of profile paramater ztta/roll_area? The value specifies the size of the roll area in bytes. The roll area is one of several memory areas, which satisfies the user requests of user programs. For technical reasons, however, the first 250 KB or so of a user context are always stored in the roll area, further data - up to the roll area limit ztta/roll_first, - in the extended memory, up to the limit ztta/roll_extension or if extended memory is exhausted, then - again in the roll area, until the roll area is full, then - in the local process area, up to the limit abap/heap_area_dia or abap/heap_area_total or until the address space or the swap space is exhausted. Followed by termination with errors like STORAGE_PARAMETERS_WRONG_SET an error code, that points to memory bottleneck Minimum data transfer with context change; however, the increase helps to avoid problems (address space, swap space, operating system paging). What is R/3? and what is basis version? SAP Basis: - Provides the runtime environment for all SAP applications - Optimally embeds the application in the system environment - Defines a stable architecture framework for system enhancements - Contains the tools for administering the entire system - Allows the distribution of resources and system components - Provides interfaces for decentralized system parts and external products. An R/3 instance is a group of R/3 services that are started and stopped as a unit (by an R/3 dispatcher) and have a common instance profile. The name of an R/3 instance is composed of letters standing for the relevant services, and an instance number which is unique for each computer. The services may be D, V, E, B, M, G, or S, which respectively stand for dialogue, update, enqueue, background, message, gateway, and spool services. I would like to know the version or name of SAP that is implemented in real time? This is a very generic question and really depends on what you are implementing (modules).

The history of the “R/3″ is 3.0D Basis 300 3.0E Basis 300 3.0F Basis 300 3.1H Basis 310 3.1I Basis 310 4.0B Basis 400 4.5B Basis 450 4.6C Basis 460 4.71 Basis 6.20 4.72 Basis 6.20 5.00 Basis 6.40 (ECC 5.0 – Enterprise Core components) 6.00 Basis 7.00 (ECC 6.0) – actually in RampUp All of those have increased business functionality and interfaces to other systems (CRM, BW etc.) What is mysap? It’s a term for all the systems that in a contract (e. g. a MySAP business suite consist of ERP2005, CRM2005, SRM2005). What is the systems configuration required to implement SAP.. i.e for production,development and QAS servers the hard disk space, RAM, Processor This also depends on what your are implementing, how many users will work on the system, how many records in what area are created etc. We need a BIG database system and an even bigger application server for ~ 900 users and 12 languages. What is ASAP? It’s an old term for an implementation strategy. Blueprint -> prototype -> goLive (if you want to say it in one sentence). How should I set priority for Printing say like user, teamlead, project manager? There’s nothing like “priority” settings for spool processes. Just define more (profile parameter rdisp/wp_no_spool) processes so people don’t need to wait. Using Tc SGEN I have generated 74% job and later I have terminated the job. I wish to start generating from where it stopped I have refreshed but to no chance nothing was done. How should I further proceed so as to complete the remaining job.. Start SGEN again and select the same you have selected before. It will popup and ask if you want to start from scratch or generate the just the remaining. Ask him/her to describe how SAP handles Memory Management? ST02 / ST03 In general via table buffers, you could go into the whole Work Process, roll in, roll out, heap (private) memory, etc. however just as a Unix or DBA admin would know, is you look this up when needed for the exact specifics. Ask him/her to describe where they would look at the buffer statistics, and what steps they would use to adjust them? ST02, RZ10 Ask him/her to describe how to setup a printer in SAP or where they would look to research why a user/users can not print? SPAD, SP01, SM50, SU01 Keep the interview to 3 general areas: DB (what is the directory structure/ where are the files kept oracle alerts, init.ora, redo logs, archive logs, etc.; possibly some basics stuff like what to do “high level” when the archive directory fills up, etc. Keep this minimal as

from a SAP basis admin point of view Oracle is just a big giant bit bucket and SAP can handle to the daily monitoring and maintenance itself. OS (what is the directory structure (what is NFS mounted and why / where are the message files contained for the OS error log; basic commands for the OS eg. Unix, mv, cp, ls, grep, ps-ef, df-k, etc. That is pretty much all the SAP basis admin will need to know. Client/Server architecture. SAP (what is the directory structure / where are files located ie. profiles – start, instance, default (what are they and what is the order of precendence) start is for statup only, instance is the first to be read then the default and if a given parameter cannot be found in the instance or then the default then the internal standard is taken from RZ10 setting. You can ask them to ran Transaction codes to you. Menus constanly change so go with T-codes. He should have a good knowledge of the following areas; transports, user / print / spool / batch management, monitoring, client tools and copies, support packages, kernel patches, workload analysis, Roles and Security, etc. The standard list of t-codes is pretty much SM50, SM51, SM66, SM12, SM13, SM21, DB01, DB02, DB13, ST01, ST02, ST03, ST04, ST05, ST06, SU01, SUIM, PFCG, SCC4, SE01, SE09, SE10, SPAM, SM35, SM36, SM37, SPAD, SP01 SCC3, SCCL, SCC9 this are pretty much you heavy hitters for monitoring and support. I would ask in general how he would troubleshoot the following: - User cannot connect to SAP check SAP logon settings, ping the host, check message server, check dispatcher, etc. - User cannot print check SAP user setup, check SPAD, check spools, check unix queue or print queue at the os level, etc - System seems slow check SM66, SM51, SM50, SM21, ST06, ST03, SMLG, AL08 etc. Some important things to remember is to ask not get specific to your installation or specific system setup as all SAP instances are different, keep your question to general topics and general answers. The most important thing to notice when choosing a candidate is not how they parrot back answers to you, but if they can a) think for themselves and b) they actually like to and will keep on learning as no one knows it all and c) they have a good background and willingness to perform analyis and will keep on digginging until the answer is found or until their resources are exhausted and then they will pull in what is required to figure it out.