sapcar

SAPCAR is a compress utility (similar to winzip, tar, etc.), that is used by SAP to compress and decompress delivered files. SAP Kernel Programs. SAPCAR in general. The compressed files have the extension ".CAR" or ".SAR".

This role installs sapcar.exe on Windows platforms, by downloading installation file from a local url.

Requirements

No requirement.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

sapcar_url: http://repo/install_files/sapcar_721_win_x64/SAPCAR_1320-80000938.EXE
sapcar_url_username: null
sapcar_url_password: null

URL to download SAPCAR installation file. Username and password are optional variables.

sapcar_executable_dest: C:\Windows\sapcar.exe

Destination for the executable. This should not be changed. If it's really required, then use a location included in windows environement variable PATH.

Dependencies

No dependency.

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: sapservers
  vars:
    sapcar_url: http://local_apache/install_files/sapcar_721_win_x64/SAPCAR_1320-80000938.EXE
  roles:
    - jpmat296.sapcar

License

BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Jean-Pierre Matsumoto.