Jobs, Roles and Responsibilities of a SAP Basis Consultant

SAP basis consultant should have primarily the knowledge of network administration. Then only he can install and configure operating system perfectly to install a SAP system. Because any SAP system mostly depend on the underlying database, he also should be able to install, configure and administer any type of relational database system. He should have through understanding about different computer programs or applications to use the sap system properly. He should be able to understand the complete structure and functionality of the entire SAP R/3 system. The following are the general day to day roles of a SAP basis consultant.

• Basis consultant should be able to handle the administration of sap including the installation,configuration and maintenance.
• Installation may include SAP R/3, ECC, Net weaver, Net Weaver components, Solution Manager etc..
• He should be able to do user administration like creating and deleting users, assigning and resetting passwords, locking and unlocking users.
• He should be able to do client administration like local client copy, remote client copy, create and deleting clients.
• He should be able to create and restore data backups
• He should be able to do printer or spool configuration and administration
• He should be able to create RFCs and should be able to configure TMS (Transport Management System)
• He should be able to monitor and manage the servers, background jobs, performacne of the system
• He should be able to create roles using different methods like transactions, direct objects, missing authorizations, restrictions…etc
• He should be able to analyze and fix missing authorizations
• He should be able to do the sap license management
• He should be able to troubleshoot security or authorization problems using SU53, ST01 and SUIM
• He should be able to monitor the status of work processes, application servers and system logs etc…
• He should be able to analyze the ABAP dumps
• He should be able to manage the database space allocation
• He should be able to do system copies
• He should be able to rectify any type of problem related to opearing systems
• He should be able to configure SAP GUI at client computers
• He should be able to rectify minor networking problems
• He should have through understanding of IP address configurations and pinging concept
• He must able to troubleshoot any client or server problems

In my openion an SAP administraor is all one in computer industy. He must have knowledge in all the subjects like operating ssstems, databases, applications, security systems…etc