UID error while adding dialogue instance

Hi,

Last night we had an issue with this server where we were adding application servers as dialogue instances and it was throwing us the errors, viz changue uid of the user zb5adm as it doesn't match with zb1adm.

As on single host there were many installations we were trying to figure out the relationship between zb5adm and zb1adm..at last we figured out that someone has compied profiles from zb1 to zb5 in /sapmnt/ZB5/profile directory and system was confused to read multiple profiles in one profile directory.

At the OS level the SAP application can only see uid and not the usernames, so issue was resolved by removing the redundant ZB1 profiles from /sapmnt/ZB5/profile directory.

SAPJSF user locked for UME connection

The scenarion is that the user SAPJSF got locked in ABAP stack of PI ZX2, the reason being UME Tech Team changed password of that user, now in configtool the ume.master.password is configured with SAPJSF user earlier old password so it got locked.

Secondly ZX2 system has eight application servers, even after changing the password in Global configuration of configtool the SAPJSF user is getting locked in backend ABAP stack, guess what, all the RFC of local server nodes are configured with SAPJSF user old password.

Resolution

First we configured the configtool of Global configuration in CI with RFC_USER so that we can run the visual admin because visual admin will not respond because of locked SAPJSF user, secondly we logged on to each application server node "RFC Provider " service to change the password of SAPJSF user as the RFC are configured for each local node and cannot be configured globally.

Easy way to list out software components of System

Goto SE16
put in CVERS table name and list out its components, it will give you the software component versions at one go in table form, much more visible than going to system and then status.