You are doing an installation / system copy (import-export) and during the execution – below error is coming out,
Creating node $(DIR_PROFILE) with type DIRECTORY failed. Original exception text was: syslib.filesystem.nodeCreationFailed:
Unable to create node \\HOSTNAME\sapmnt\ with type DIRECTORY: can’t create parent node…
Solution
There are multiple reasons which caused the issues. Read the log trace for further details and SAP Note accordingly. Below solutions are based our encountered issue.
- Check your hostname correctly. As what occurred to us, we did change the hostname during the SAP installation and encountered above error.
2. You have to ensure the hostname for SAP profile, tnsname.ora, tnslistner and Windows hosts files are correctly maintain.
3. Check keydb.xml (from the SAP installation directory – should be on the C: drive – Windows) and look for SAPTRANSHOST entry. Ensure it is pointing to the correct hostname.
4. Create the directory manually. You can do this via Computer Management. As an example for sapmnt directory, go to Shares and create Share Name as sapmnt, assign the path and authorization accordingly.
SAP Note
- 2684318 – Unable to create node D:\ with type DIRECTORY: can’t create parent node
- 2672143 – Creating node $(DIR_TRANS) with type DIRECTORY failed
- 2526566 – Creating node $(DIR_PERF) with type DIRECTORY failed
