Stopping the Software Update Manager

After a successful update, you have to stop the Software Update Manager manually.

Context

After the update procedure has been performed successfully, the Software Update Manager displays an appropriate information in the web browser window. Afterwards, all remaining processes on operating system level must be terminated to stop SUM completely. This also applies after a reset and the subsequent cleanup if you do not want to continue the update.

You have three options to stop the Software Update Manager completely:

Choosing Exit from the More menu.
Choosing Cleanup from the More menu.
Killing the SAPup processes manually on the host.

Procedure

Option 1: Stopping the Software Update Manager using the Exit option:
1. After the update procedure has been performed successfully, choose Exit from the More menu. This exits the current page and displays the initial dialog of the SUM user interface (Tool start required).
2. Choose Exit again. This terminates the SAPup process on the server and therefore stops the Software Update Manager completely. An appropriate message appears on the SUM user interface.
3. Close the web browser or web browser page.
Option 2: Stopping the Software Update Manager using the Cleanup option:
1. At the end of a successful update procedure or after a reset has finished successfully, choose Cleanup from the More menu. This option cleans up the SUM directory and terminates all running SUM ABAP server processes (SAPup) processes on the server. Afterwards an appropriate message appears on the user interface. The Software Update Manager has then been stopped completely.
2. Close the web browser or web browser page.
Option 3: Stopping the Software Update Manager by killing the SAPup processes:
1. After the update procedure has been performed successfully, choose Cancel and then Ok.
2. Close all web browser windows connected with SUM user interface.
3. Search for all SAPup processes by entering the following:
  - ps -ef | grep SAPup
4. Kill all found process IDs (PIDs) using the following command:
  
  kill <PID>