SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA Admin

About the Tutorial

SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that is deployable as an on-premise appliance,
or in the cloud. It is a revolutionary platform, which is best suited for performing real-time
analytics, and developing and deploying real-time applications. At the core of this real-
time data platform is the SAP HANA database, which is fundamentally different from any
other database engine in the market today.

This tutorial will teach you SAP HANA Administration tasks in a single and distributed
environment. This tutorial is specifically focused on admin activities in HANA system -
System Management, Table Properties, License Keys, Smart data access, integration with
different non-SAP systems, security management, and audit policies in HANA system.

Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for those who have good knowledge on SAP Basis and
HANA system concepts. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate
level of expertise in administration and management of SAP HANA in multitenant
environment.

Prerequisites
Before you proceed with this tutorial, we assume that you are well-versed with basic SAP
Basis and HANA concepts. You should have a good exposure to SAP HANA in-memory
concepts, HANA Studio, and different options in HANA studio. If you are not aware of these
concepts, then we recommend that you first go through our short tutorials on SAP HANA
and Basis.

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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial .................................................................................................................................... i

Audience .................................................................................................................................................. i

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ i

Disclaimer & Copyright............................................................................................................................. i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... ii

1. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ OVERVIEW........................................................................................... 1

2. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW ................................................................. 3

3. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ MULTITENANT DATABASE ................................................................... 5

4. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ MULTIPLE HOST SYSTEMS ................................................................... 7

5. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ TOOLS ................................................................................................. 8

6. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ COCKPIT .............................................................................................. 9

SAP HANA Cockpit for Offline Administration ....................................................................................... 10

7. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ HANA STUDIO ................................................................................... 13

SAP HANA Administration Console in HANA Studio .............................................................................. 14

Adding a System in HANA Studio .......................................................................................................... 15

Executing SQL Statements in SAP HANA Studio ..................................................................................... 18

Using Log Off /Log On in SAP HANA Studio ........................................................................................... 19

8. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ SYSTEM MANAGEMENT .................................................................... 22

9. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ MULTITENANT DB CONTAINER MANAGEMENT ................................ 23

Creating a Tenant Database .................................................................................................................. 24

10. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ STARTING A HANA SYSTEM ............................................................... 26

11. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ STOPPING THE HANA SYSTEM ........................................................... 28

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12. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ LICENSE KEYS..................................................................................... 29

Types of License keys ............................................................................................................................ 29

SAP HANA System Lockdown ................................................................................................................ 29

How to Check and Install License Keys of HANA? .................................................................................. 30

13. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ MONITORING THE HANA SYSTEM ..................................................... 32

14. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ TABLE MANAGEMENT ....................................................................... 36

Creating a Table in HANA Database Using GUI Option in HANA Studio ................................................. 36

Benefits of Using Column Store Tables .................................................................................................. 37

15. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ TABLE PARTITION .............................................................................. 39

Single Level Partitioning ........................................................................................................................ 40

Range Partitioning................................................................................................................................. 41

Multilevel Partitioning .......................................................................................................................... 41

16. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ TABLE REPLICATION .......................................................................... 42

17. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ DATA COMPRESSION......................................................................... 44

Check Compression of a Column Table .................................................................................................. 44

Compress a Table Manually in SAP HANA ............................................................................................. 46

18. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ SAP SOLMAN INTEGRATION .............................................................. 48

19. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT ................................................................. 50

SAP HANA Admin ─ Platform Lifecycle Management ............................................................................ 50

SAP HANA Admin ─ Application Lifecycle Management ........................................................................ 51

20. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ SECURING HANA SYSTEM .................................................................. 55

View Security Settings in SAP HANA Cockpit ......................................................................................... 56

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21. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ USER PROVISIONING ......................................................................... 57

User Types ............................................................................................................................................ 57

Create Users in HANA Studio ................................................................................................................. 58

Types of Privileges to User Profile ......................................................................................................... 60

22. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ AUTHENTICATION METHODS ............................................................ 69

SAP Logon and Assertion Tickets ........................................................................................................... 71

X.509 Client Certificates ........................................................................................................................ 71

Single Sign On in HANA System ............................................................................................................. 72

23. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ AUDITING ACTIVITIES ........................................................................ 73

Audit in the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................................................................................. 73

Create an Audit Policy ........................................................................................................................... 74

Check Audit Details in HANA Cockpit .................................................................................................... 77

24. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ BACKING UP HANA SYSTEM .............................................................. 78

25. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ RECOVERY OF HANA SYSTEM ............................................................ 81

Types of Recovery in HANA System ....................................................................................................... 81

26. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ HANA XS APPLICATION SERVICE ........................................................ 82

XS Service Tools Under SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................................................................ 83

27. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ DATA PROVISIONING......................................................................... 86

28. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ SMART DATA ACCESS ........................................................................ 87

29. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ NEW REMOTE SYSTEM CONNECTION ............................................... 88

30. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ INTEGRATION WITH HADOOP ........................................................... 89

31. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ KEY COMMANDS ............................................................................... 91

32. SAP HANA ADMIN ─ JOB RESPONSIBILITIES ....................................................................... 92

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 1. SAP HANA Admin ─ Overview
SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA is an in-memory database for performing real-time data analysis, and
development of applications on the top of real-time data. HANA administration deals with
managing SAP HANA system in a single and distributed system environment. Each HANA
system can contain multi node architecture with each node containing multiple processors
for fast speed data analysis and real-time data provisioning. You can use Smart data
access to get the data from non-SAP systems without importing the data to HANA
database, and virtual tables can be used to perform read/write data operations.

SAP HANA Administration includes the following activities:

 SAP HANA multiple host system management

 SAP HANA Administration Tools
 SAP HANA System Management and Availability
 SAP HANA Lifecycle Management
 SAP HANA Security and User Management
 SAP HANA Backup and Recovery Management
 SAP HANA Data Provisioning and Integration with non-SAP systems

Each SAP system contains multiple servers and it can be checked in HANA Studio under
Administration tab. SAP HANA Studio contains Administration Perspective (default) to
manage all admin tasks in HANA systems.

To check the landscape of HANA system, navigate to Landscape tab in HANA studio.
Services shows all the services running on HANA system.

The following screenshot shows SAP HANA system and all the key services running under
system Landscape for the same system.

You can see the service name corresponding to each server in HANA system landscape.

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From the dropdown list, you can select all the host names and services that you want to
see and the status of each system.

Various details available for each service includes: Start time, CPU and Memory details,
Used Memory, Peak Used Memory, Effective Allocation Unit, Physical Memory on host, and
SQL Port.

When you click the Hosts tab, you can see the host names in the System Landscape and
the role of HANA system defined under Name server.

You can also check the status of the systems, failover status, Index server role, and
Failover group.

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 2. SAP HANA Admin ─ Architecture Overview
SAP HANA Admin

In SAP HANA system architecture, it contains all the server components that gets installed
at the time of installation. Each server has defined set of tasks and different services are
run for each server in a SAP HANA distributed environment.

The most important server system and the heart of HANA system is the Index server. This
server is responsible for processing SQL/MDX statement using engines in the Index server.
It also contains Session and Transaction Manager to keep track of completed and running
transactions.

Persistence Layer in the Index server is used for backing up data and transaction of log
files.

Following table lists all the key server components in HANA, the corresponding services,
and OS process details.

Server Service Name

OS Process
Component in HANA Component Details
Name
Name system

Responsible for processing

Index Server Indexserver hdbindexserver SQL statements using
SQL/MDX Processors

To maintain topology of SAP

HANA system. This is used to
Name Server nameserver hdbnameserver
manage all the running
components and data stored
on each component.

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It can be used to develop

XS Classic
xsengine hdbxsengine and host applications on the
Server
top of SAP HANA system.

Data
To provide SAP HANA smart
Provisioning dpserver hdbdpserver
data access function.
Server

To analyze the text data and

Preprocessor preprocessor hdbpreprocessor
perform search capabilities.

This is used to perform

compilation of SQL
Compile Server compileserver hdbcompileserver
Procedures and doesn’t
contain any data.

It is used to process
HTTP/HTTPS request to
Web Dispatcher Webdispatcher Hdbwebdispacher
HANA XS
Engine.

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SAP HANA Admin

It is possible to set up multiple databases into a single HANA system. When you install
SAP HANA system in multiple container mode, you can setup multiple isolated databases
in single SAP HANA system. This is called Multitenant database containers.

You can also covert a single container HANA system to multiple container databases HANA
system. In multiple container HANA system, each database runs on the same
infrastructure and uses the same computing resources. However, each database contains
following components:

 Database Users
 Repository
 Catalog
 Backups
 Traces and Logs
 Persistence

All the database objects - tables, schemas, database views, SQL procedures - are separate
for each database. You can also perform cross-database functions in multitenant database.

In SAP HANA system, it contains multiple server - Name Server, Index Server,
Preprocessor, and XS Server. With multiple container databases, different combinations of
the above servers are used.

Name server maintains the landscape details of the system and the system databases run
the Name server. The Name server of multitenant databases doesn’t contain topology
information and this information is stored in tenant database catalog.

Preprocessor and Compile server runs on system databases as they don’t contain persist
data. Each tenant database contain its own index server and SAP HANA Classic Server
runs on the Index server of tenant database by default.

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You can see the architecture of SAP HANA multiple container system in the following
screenshot. Each instance of system database runs on multiple hosts to provide scalability
and system availability. In multiple worker configuration, when a system fails, standby
instance will fail over all active databases.

In the above screenshot, you can see 2 databases distributed across three hosts in multiple
container database system.

In multiple container architecture, the system database is set up at the time of installation
of a multiple-container system or when you convert a single container system to multiple
container system. This is used to manage information about the system as a whole, and
also for tenant databases. It is used for Central System Administration in multitenant
environment.

System database contains data and user data for system administration and SAP HANA
Administration tools such as SAP HANA Studio to connect to the system database. All the
administration tasks that are performed in the system database applies to the whole
system and you can also target the configuration for a specific tenant database. System
database contains complete landscape information about Tenant components, however it
doesn’t contain topology related information.

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 4. SAP HANA Admin ─ Multiple Host Systems
SAP HANA Admin

When your SAP HANA system is installed on a single system, it is known as Single Host
System; however, when you distribute the system installation on multiple systems, it is
called Multiple Host Systems. Using multiple host systems, you can use features such
as Load Balancing and Scale Out feature of SAP HANA system. You can overcome the
hardware limitations by distributing the load of your system on multiple servers.

You can also assign different tables to different hosts using database partition to split a
single table between hosts (partitioning of tables), and to replicate tables to multiple hosts.

When SAP HANA system is installed on multiple hosts, SAP HANA Administrator can
perform start and stop, backup, or run update as a single system by taking single System
ID known as SID.

Each SAP HANA system contains its own server components for each host and the request
from the client application can be distributed to different hosts in multiple host systems.

In the above screenshot, you can see SAP HANA multiple host system architecture, where
HANA system has 3 separate instances, and each instance has its own server components.

The request from the client application can be distributed to any of the instance in this
environment.

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 5. SAP HANA Admin ─ Tools SAP HANA Admin

There are various tools that can be used to perform administration tasks in single container
or multiple container system. All the tools are used to perform database level
administration and the system level administration can be performed using SAP HANA
Cockpit.

Following are common HANA Administration Tools:

SAP HANA Cockpit

This is an administration tool to manage your SAP HANA system and is based on SAP Fiori
Launchpad based navigation to access long range of HANA applications. SAP HANA cockpit
can be accessed via a web browser.

SAP HANA Studio

Using SAP HANA Studio, you can perform system administration and monitoring activities
in a distributed environment. You can create users with different access privilege, backup
and recovery, and data provisioning using HANA Studio.

HANA Studio is an Eclipse-based tool and is available for Window, Mac, and Unix OS.

SAP HANA Lifecycle Manager

This is an administration tool to manage SAP HANA components after installation. You can
add/remove hosts or rename using the Lifecycle Manager.

SAP Solution Manager

This tool is used to integrate your SAP HANA platform with other business solutions.

SAP HANA HW Configuration Check

You can use this tool to check the interoperability of SAP HANA system with enterprise
storage.

SAP HANA XS Administration Tools

This tool is used to manage and administration applications developed on the top of HANA
database sing XS Classic model and XS Advanced model. You can perform security and
define user authentication for applications developed and hosted in SAP HANA
environment.

SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management

This tool is used to perform the transport of delivery units, upload or download transports
and to perform transport management tasks.

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This is an administration tool to manage your SAP HANA system and is based on SAP Fiori
Launchpad based navigation to access long range of HANA applications. SAP HANA cockpit
can be accessed via a web browser.

You can also use SAP HANA Cockpit in an offline mode to perform administration tasks -
starting HANA system to fix performance-related issues.

SAP HANA Cockpit with Fiori-based Launchpad shows the content in the form of tiles
arranged in groups. Using these tiles, you can access individual applications and can also
access app-specific data for immediate review.

You can also perform a drill on these tiles to see the detailed information about specific
applications.

Following roles are required to open and access tile-based SAP HANA Cockpit:

sap.hana.admin.roles:: Monitoring or sap.hana.admin.roles::Administrator

To open SAP HANA Cockpit via a web browser, you need to have browser support SAPUI5
library sap.m.

You can also open SAP HANA Cockpit via HANA Studio. Navigate on HANA system ->
Configuration and Monitoring -> Open SAP HANA Cockpit.

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A single-container system is accessed through the following URLs:

https://<host_FQDN>:43<instance>/sap/hana/admin/cockpit

http://<host_FQDN>:80<instance>/sap/hana/admin/cockpit

Host name is SAP HANA system name and Instance number is SAP HANA system Instance
number.

SAP HANA Cockpit for Offline Administration

You can also open HANA Cockpit in an offline mode using a web browser or via standard
SAP HANA Cockpit tool. This is used to perform administration tasks - starting SAP HANA
system, other offline administration activities.

To login to SAP HANA Cockpit for offline administration, following perquisites should be
met:

 You need to have credentials for Operating System user <sid> admuser created
at the time of installation.

 Port 1129 should be open for communication.

 You need to have browser support SAPUI5 library sap.m.

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There are two ways to open SAP HANA Cockpit in an offline mode:

Using the Web Browser

Enter the following URL in the web browser.

https://<host>:1129/lmsl/hdbcockpit/<sid>/index.html

You can directly enter the above URL in the web browser and it opens SAP HANA Cockpit
for offline administration. You have to authenticate via Operating system user <sid>
admuser.

This method is not recommended as it transfers the password in plain text via HTTP.

Using the Standard SAP HANA Cockpit

You can open SAP HANA cockpit by entering the following URL.

https://<host_FQDN>:43<instance>/sap/hana/admin/cockpit

Navigate to SAP HANA Database Administration group -> Select SAP HANA Cockpit for
offline administration as shown in the 2nd last box of the following screenshot.

There are various options under SAP HANA Cockpit for offline mode, when you click on the
options as shown in the following screenshot -

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Start, Restart and Stop

This tile shows the status of your SAP HANA system. Following are the most common
status messages you can see -

 Running
 Stopping
 Stopped
 Initializing

When you click on this tile, it allows you to start, stop, and restart a server.

Diagnosis Files
This is used to open the log files, trace results and other diagnosis files. You can use this
tile to get the diagnosis files in zip format and it can be attached to support messages.

It is also possible to search diagnosis files to find specific words and phrases.

Troubleshoot Unresponsive System

This tile is used to access the information required for troubleshooting performance issues.

SAP HANA Documentation Tile

Using this tile, you can see the documentation of all the administrative tasks that you can
perform in SAP HANA Cockpit for offline administration.

SAP HANA Cockpit

This tile is used to access the main window where you can access all applications for
performing SAP HANA administration online. In case of system replication, this option is
only available with primary system.

Note: In multitenant database containers, when you use Start option under SAP HANA
Cockpit offline administration -> Star, Restart, Stop tile -> Footer bar, Start System - this
options restarts all the tenant database systems.

When you stop a system, the status of the system under Start, Restart, and Stop tile is
changed to Stopped (red) as seen in the following screenshot.

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SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA Studio is an Eclipse-based tool. SAP HANA Studio is both, the central
development environment and the main administration tool for HANA system. Additional
features are −

 It is a client tool, which can be used to access local or remote HANA system.

 It provides an environment for HANA Administration, HANA Information Modeling ,

and Data Provisioning in HANA database.

There are various administration tasks that can be performed using SAP HANA Studio:

 To start and stop service

 To perform monitoring of SAP HANA system
 To perform user management and authorization
 To perform backup and recovery
 To perform Audit policy and Security configuration
 To perform license management
 To perform other configurations in HANA system
 To perform SQL development tasks - HANA Information Models, SQL Stored
Procedures

In SAP HANA Studio, you will find a long list of perspectives, which can be considered as
separate tools in HANA Studio. All these perspectives can be used for performing various
administrative tasks, system monitoring, and data provisioning.

To see list of all Perspectives in HANA Studio, navigate to Window tab -> Perspective ->
Open Perspective -> Other.

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When you click on “Other…”, it will open the list of all the perspectives that can be used
to manage and perform system administration.

SAP HANA Administration Console in HANA Studio

Using this feature, you can open HANA database administration and monitoring features
in HANA Studio. By default, it opens in System View.

To open SAP HANA Administration, you can select SAP HANA Administration Console
Perspective default option. You can also access it via Administration button at the top.

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When you click the Administration button as shown in the following screenshot, it opens
SAP HANA Administration Console. The console contains all database administration and
monitoring features of the SAP HANA studio.

Following tabs are available under SAP HANA Administration Console:

 Overview
 Landscape
 Alerts
 Performance
 Volumes
 Configuration
 System Information
 Diagnosis Files
 Trace Configuration

These tabs are used to perform monitoring and administration tasks in your SAP HANA
system.

Adding a System in HANA Studio

Single or multiple systems can be added to HANA Studio for administration and information
modeling purposes. To add new HANA system, host name, instance number and database
user name and password is required.

 Port 3615 should be open to connect to Database

 Port 31015 Instance No 10
 Port 30015 Instance No 00
 SSh port should also be open
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Following are the steps to add a system to HANA Studio.

Step 1: Right-click the Navigator space and click Add System. Enter HANA system details,
i.e. Host name & Instance number and click Next.

Step 2: Enter Database user name and password to connect to SAP HANA database. Click
Next and then Finish.

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Once you click on Finish, HANA system will be added to System View for administration
and modeling purposes. You can see the hierarchical structure of HANA system under
HANA Studio.

Each HANA system has two main sub-nodes, Catalog and Content.

Catalog Tab: It contains all available Schemas, i.e. all data structures, tables and data,
column views, procedures that can be used in the Content tab.

Content Tab: The Content tab contains design time repository, which holds all information
of data models created with the HANA Modeler. These models are organized in Packages.
The content node provides different views on the same physical data.

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Executing SQL Statements in SAP HANA Studio

SQL Console can be opened by selecting the Schema name, in which, a new table has to
be created using System View SQL Editor option or by a right-clicking the Schema name
as shown in the following screenshot.

Once SQL Editor is opened, Schema name can be confirmed from the name written on the
top of SQL Editor. You can create database objects using SQL statement.

To create a table −

Create column Table Test1 (

ID INTEGER,
NAME VARCHAR(10),
PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

In this SQL statement, we have created a Column table “Test1”, defined data types of the
table and the Primary Key.

Once you write Create table SQL query, click the Execute option on top of SQL editor on
the right side of the screen. Once the statement is executed, we will get a confirmation
message as follows -

Statement 'Create column Table Test1 (ID INTEGER,NAME VARCHAR(10), PRIMARY KEY
(ID))' successfully executed in 13 ms 761 μs (server processing time: 12 ms 979 μs) −
Rows Affected: 0

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Insert statement is used to enter the data in the Table using SQL editor.

Insert into TEST1 Values (1,'ABCD')

Insert into TEST1 Values (2,'EFGH');

Click Execute.

You can right-click the Table name and use Open Data Definition to see the data type of
the table. Open Data Preview/Open Content to see the table contents.

Using Log Off /Log On in SAP HANA Studio

Using SAP HANA Studio, you can also log off from a SAP HANA system and end all the
connections. To login to HANA system again, click Logon.

To logoff from a system, right-click the System name in HANA Studio -> Log Off.

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To login again, right-click on HANA system in System Pane -> Log On. You will be
prompted to enter the password. Enter the password and click OK. You will be logged in
to HANA system under HANA Studio. You can view all the folders and objects in HANA
system.

You can also define the user logon behavior in SAP HANA Studio startup. It allows you to
save the password for the users when HANA Studio or other user settings is open.

Go to Preferences -> SAP HANA -> Global Settings.

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If you wish automatic logon takes place when the Studio is started and also to allow explicit
logon when HANA studio starts, uncheck the first option.

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SAP HANA Admin

When SAP HANA system is installed, there are various components that get installed with
HANA system. It includes:

Mandatory Components of SAP HANA

 SAP HANA Server

 SAP HANA Client system

Additional Components

 SAP HANA Studio

 SAP HANA Smart Data Access SDA
 SAP HANA XS Runtime environment
 SAP Live Cache Applications

When the installation is complete, you may need to perform various tasks in SAP HANA
system, such as:

 Backup and Recovery Management

 User Management
 Starting HANA System
 Stopping HANA System
 License Keys
 System INI Files
 Monitoring HANA System
 Data Replication using SMART data access
 SAP HANA integration with BusinessObjects Reporting environment

These tasks can be performed using various SAP HANA admin tools. Most common tools
to perform SAP HANA system management - HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio.

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Container
HANA Admin

Management

SAP HANA system can be configured in a single container database system or multiple
container system. To set up tenant databases, your system should be configured in
multiple container mode. You can also convert a single container mode to multiple
container mode, before you create and configure tenant database.

When SAP HANA system is installed in multiple container mode, only the system database
is created initially. Tenant databases are created by the administrator and then later it can
be configured.

You can convert a SAP HANA system to support multitenant database containers using the
SAP HANA Database Lifecycle Manager (HDBLCM) resident program in the graphical user
interface.

When you convert a Single container system to multitenant database container using
HDBLCM, it can’t be reversed.

You can open SAP HANA database lifecycle Manager using the following URL in a web
browser.

https://hostname:1129/lmsl/HDBLCM/HDB/index.html

You can also open this browser from SAP HANA Studio. Right-click HANA system ->
Lifecycle Management -> Platform Lifecycle Management -> SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle
Management.

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You can also perform conversion of single container to multitenant database system using
SAP HANA Cockpit. Navigate to SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Manager.

Click Convert to Multitenant Database Containers as shown in the following screenshot.

Creating a Tenant Database

You can create a tenant database in SAP HANA multiple container system using SAP HANA
cockpit. A tenant database can be created from the system database as and when it is
required. A tenant database contains all the data - including users, configuration, and
connection properties of the original system.

Step 1: To create a tenant database, you need to navigate to Manage Database app of
SAP HANA Cockpit.

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Step 2: To access this tile in SAP HANA Cockpit, you must have the following role
assigned: sap.hana.admin.cockpit.sysdb.roles::SysDBAdmin

Step 3: In the footer toolbar, you have to navigate to Overflow menu -> Create Tenant
Database.

Step 4: Enter the name of tenant database and the system user password. You can also
specify OS user and group of tenant database.

You can select various optional fields while creating tenant database, such as creating OS
user or to add tenant database to a group and many more.

Step 5: Once you complete the wizard, click Create Tenant Database and it may take
some time to complete the creation process.

New database that has been created has been added to manage database app in SAP
HANA cockpit. You can also check newly created tenant database using database view
command -

SELECT * FROM "PUBLIC"."M_DATABASES

A HANA database administrator can start or stop the tenant databases either individually
or all in one go, by starting/stopping the whole system. A tenant database which is
individually stopped can’t be started with the whole system and you need to start it
individually.

Select the tenant database that you want to start and stop under manage database app
in HANA Cockpit. Click Start Tenant database/Stop tenant database to perform a start and
stop.

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SAP HANA Admin

In a distributed environment, it is required to perform the start of HANA systems. It could

be after a maintenance task, backup, and recovery, or some other reason. A start of single
system or multiple systems can be performed using SAP HANA cockpit Offline
Administration or using SAP HANA Studio.

Start a System Using HANA Cockpit

Navigate to SAP HANA Database Administration -> SAP HANA Cockpit for Offline
Administration.

Navigate to Open the System Operations app by clicking the Start, Stop, Restart tile on
the homepage of the SAP HANA cockpit for offline administration.

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At the bottom, you have an option to Start the System. When you click on Start System,
database services start one by one. In case your environment contains multitenant
database containers, it starts the services of all tenant databases.

The status of the system shows “Running” when all the services are successfully started.

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SAP HANA Admin

You can stop all SAP HANA systems using SAP HANA Cockpit for offline administration
option in HANA Cockpit. In multitenant database container system, all tenant databases
will be stopped using this option.

When all the services are stopped one by one for all the databases, it shows the status of
system as “Stopped” as shown in the following screenshot.

You can also use the SAP HANA Cockpit for offline administration to restart SAP HANA
system. In the multitenant database environment, when you select Restart from the footer
bar, it also restarts all the tenant databases.

Start and Stop a System in HANA Studio

To perform a start/stop of a single HANA system or in multiple container system, you can
also use SAP HANA Studio. All the tenant databases which are stopped individually has to
start separately in HANA Studio.

Stopping a system is required in certain scenarios, when you have to make certain
configuration changes, maintenance, patch upgrade, or other scenarios.

To start a system, navigate to System view and right-click HANA system that you want to
start and stop -> Configuration and Monitoring -> Start System.

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SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA License management and keys are required to use HANA database. You can
install or delete HANA License keys using HANA studio.

Types of License keys

SAP HANA system supports two types of License keys −

Temporary License Key

Temporary License keys are automatically installed when you install the HANA database.
These keys are valid only for 90 days and you should request permanent license keys from
SAP marketplace before the expiry of 90 days period after installation.

Permanent License Key

Permanent License keys are valid only till the predefined expiration date. License keys
specify the amount of memory licensed to target HANA installation. They can be installed
from SAP Marketplace under Keys and Requests tab. When a permanent License key
expires, a temporary license key is issued, which is valid for only 28 days. During this
period, you have to install a permanent License key again.

There are two types of permanent License keys for HANA system −

 Unenforced: If unenforced license key is installed and consumption of HANA

system exceeds the license amount of memory, the operation of SAP HANA is not
affected in this case.

 Enforced: If Enforced license key is installed and consumption of HANA system

exceeds the license amount of memory, HANA system gets locked. If this situation
occurs, HANA system has to be restarted or a new license key should be requested
and installed.

There are different License scenarios that can be used in HANA system depending on the
landscape of the system (Standalone, HANA Cloud, BW on HANA, etc.) and not all of these
models are based on the memory of HANA system installation.

SAP HANA System Lockdown

There are various scenarios when your SAP HANA system locks down. This happens when
a License key expires or license keys are deleted.

When a system is locked, it is not possible to run any transactions by connecting to the
database. To renew license keys/unlock the system, only HANA user with License Admin
system privilege can connect to HANA database.

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Following are the scenarios which can cause the lockdown of SAP HANA system:

 When hardware license key changes and Temporary license key is used in SAP
HANA system.

 Temporary License key expires in HANA system.

 All license keys installed in HANA database are deleted.

 SAP HANA system permanent license key expires and has not been renewed in
the grace time period of 28 days.

 You are using Enforced License key and your memory consumption exceeds the
licensed amount and tolerance limit assigned.

Note: It is not possible to take a backup of HANA system when the system is locked down.

How to Check and Install License Keys of HANA?

The role required to install/delete an existing License Key: LICENSE ADMIN

To check and install a new License key, navigate and right-click HANA system -> Properties
-> License.

It tells about License type, Start Date and Expiration Date, Memory Allocation and the
information (Hardware Key, System Id) that is required to request a new license through
SAP Marketplace.

Now to renew/install a new License key, navigate to Install License key -> Browse ->
Enter Path, is used to install a new License key. The Delete option is used to delete any
old expiration key.

All Licenses tab under License tells about the Product name, description, Hardware key,
First installation time, etc.

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To delete the license key, you can use SAP HANA Studio or it can also be performed using
SQL console. Deleting a license key is required in various scenarios such as you have
installed permanent license keys with an incorrect installation number or incorrect system
number on the database.

To delete a license key, right-click HANA system -> Properties -> License -> Delete License
Key.

You can also execute the following SQL command to delete all license keys in HANA
database that results in a system lockdown.

UNSET SYSTEM LICENSE ALL

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13. SAP HANA Admin ─ Monitoring the HANA System
SAP HANA Admin

System Monitor in HANA Studio provides an overview of all your HANA system at a glance.
From System Monitor, you can drill down into the details of an individual system in the
Administration Editor. It tells about Data disk, Log disk, Trace disk, Alerts on resource
usage with priority.

The following information is available in the System Monitor:

SAP HANA alert monitoring is used to monitor the status of system resources and services
that are running in the HANA system. Alert monitoring is used to handle critical alerts like
CPU usage, disk full, FS reaching threshold, etc. The monitoring component of HANA
system continuously collects information about health, usage, and performance of all the
components of HANA database. It raises an alert when any of the component breaches
the set threshold value.

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The priority of alert raised in HANA system tells the criticality of the problem and it depends
on the check that is performed on the component. Example: If CPU usage is 80%, a low
priority alert will be raised; however, if it reaches 96%, the system will raise a high priority
alert.

The System Monitor is the most common way to monitor HANA system and to verify the
availability of all your SAP HANA system components. The System monitor is used to check
all key components and services of a HANA system.

You can also drill down the details of an individual system in Administration Editor. It tells
about Data disk, Log disk, Trace disk, alerts on resource usage with priority.

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Alert tab in Administrator editor is used to check the current and all other alerts in HANA
system.

It also shows the time when an alert is raised, the description of the alert, the priority of
the alert, etc.

SAP HANA monitoring dashboard shows the key aspects of system health and
configuration.

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You can also use SAP HANA Cockpit for system monitoring and alerts. SAP HANA Cockpit
can be opened directly from HANA Studio or you can also open it via web browser. You
should have sap.hana.admin.roles::Monitoring or sap.hana.admin.roles::Administrator
role assigned to access SAP HANA Database Administrator catalog access.

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 14. SAP HANA Admin ─ Table Management
SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA supports all the database functions that can be performed in a conventional
database. You can create database tables, views, triggers, synonyms, stored procedures,
and other database functions. In SAP HANA, you can create two types of tables:

 Row Store
 Column Store

SAP HANA column store tables are suitable to perform performance optimized read
operations and also to perform write operations. You can achieve a data compression up
to 11 times, and searches and calculations can be performed much faster as compared to
column store tables. Data Partitioning feature of SAP HANA is only available to column
store tables and SAP HANA Data modeling can be used only on column store tables.

Row store tables are more suitable for performing INSERT and UPDATE SQL statements
on small size tables.

In SAP HANA database, it is possible to join different store table types - Row store table
can be joined to a column store table but it is recommended to join similar table types
together to keep the performance high.

Creating a Table in HANA Database Using GUI Option in HANA Studio

Right-click on Table tab under Schema -> Select ‘New Table’ option as shown in the
following screenshot.

Once you click on New Table, it will open a window to enter the Table name. Choose
Schema name from the dropdown -> Define Table type from the dropdown list: Column
Store or Row Store.

Define data type as shown in the following screenshot, columns can be added by clicking
the (+) sign. Primary Key can be chosen by clicking the cell under Primary key in front of
Column name. Not Null will be active by default. Once columns are added, click Execute.

In the following screenshot, you can see the Table Type as Column Store. You have an
option to create a Row store table by selecting Row Store from the dropdown list.

While using SQL statement to create a table, you need to mention “Column” keyword in
Create Table command. By default, it creates a Row store table using SQL Editor.

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Once you Execute (F8), right-click Table Tab -> Refresh. The new table will be reflected
in the list of tables under the chosen Schema.

Note: You can also change the table type in SAP HANA database using the following Alter
command in SQL Editor.

Alter table_name Column;

Benefits of Using Column Store Tables

Following are the advantages of using Column store tables as compared to Row store:

Performance Optimized Column Operations

You can perform complex calculations and aggregations much faster as compared to Row
Store tables. This removes the need to store aggregated tables in HANA database and
hence also saves the memory space.

Built-In Indexes for Column Tables

Using columnar data structure for tables removes the need of Indexes as when you store
data in columns it works like a built-in index for each column. This saves the memory
space and also improves the performance during write operations.

Data Compression
When you store column based tables in HANA database, similar data types are stored
continuous in memory. It allows you to apply various data compression techniques such
as - Run Length Compressed, Dictionary Compressed, hence reducing the space required
to store the tables. You can achieve a data compression as high as 11 times as compared
to conventional database.

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Parallel Processing
With the use of multi core processors, you can perform parallel processing on column store
tables. As data is stored vertically, column operations can easily be processed on column
based tables.

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SAP HANA Admin

Using Partitioning, you can split column store tables into smaller tables in a multiple host
system. You can even divide tables into smaller more manageable parts using partitioning.
Partitioning can be done using DML SQL statements.

When a table is partitioned it contains different set of rows for each part and Partitioning
can be done based on different algorithms - Hash Partitioning, Single Level or multilevel
Partitioning.

Following are the advantages of using Table Partitioning:

Partitioning Pruning
You can determine if a query can be analyzed in a particular partition. Using this method,
you can reduce the load on the system and hence improve the response time.

Example: When you partition a table based on the year, a query is executed to analyze
the data for a particular year. You can use specific partition and hence query performance
is improved.

Load Balancing
You can divide individual partitions on multiple hosts and hence a query is not processed
by a single server, results in better load balancing on all the servers hosting table
partitions.

Size Limitation
In a column store table, maximum number of rows that can be entered is around 2 billion.
You can overcome this by distributing the rows of a column table on multiple partitions
and hence the size limit is increased to 2 billion for each partition.

Improved Delta Merge Operation

During delta merge, if data is only modified for some partitions, you need to merge less
partitions in delta merge.

Parallel Processing of Queries

Using partitions, you can run multiple queries in parallel and hence improve the response
time.

Let us now discuss the types of partionining.

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Single Level Partitioning

There are different types of single level partitioning available in SAP HANA system -

 Hash Partitioning
 Round Robin Partitioning
 Range Partitioning

In Hash partitioning, rows are distributed equally to perform load balancing. You don’t
require the detailed information about table content in this Partitioning type.

As compared to Hash Partitioning, in Round Robin Partitioning rows are equally distributed
to each partition and new rows are equally assigned to each partition.

To create 4 partitions of a table using Round Robin, you can use the following SQL queries.
No primary keys should be defined.

CREATE COLUMN TABLE TABLENAME (a INT, b INT, c INT) PARTITION BY ROUNDROBIN

PARTITIONS 4

This command will create 4 partitions of a table.

CREATE COLUMN TABLE Table_Name (a INT, b INT, c INT, PRIMARY KEY (a,b))
PARTITION BY HASH (a, b) PARTITIONS 4

This will create 4 partitions on column a and b, and you need to specify at least one
column.

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Range Partitioning
In Range partitioning, you create dedicated partitions for certain values and you should
have in-depth knowledge of table contents for partitioning columns.

Example: Creating one partition for each calendar month.

CREATE COLUMN TABLE TABLE_NAME (a INT,

b INT, c INT, PRIMARY KEY (a,b))
PARTITION BY RANGE (a)
(PARTITION 1 <= VALUES < 10,
PARTITION 10 <= VALUES < 20,
PARTITION VALUE = 50, PARTITION
OTHERS)

This will create 4 partitions, one for partition range 1 to 10, 2 nd from 10 to 20, 3rd for value
50, and 4th for all other values.

Multilevel Partitioning
In multilevel partitioning, you can overcome the limitation of HASH and RANGE single level
partitioning to use key columns as partitioning columns. Using multilevel partitioning, you
can partition a column that is not a primary key. The most common type of multilevel
partitioning is HASH-Range Partitioning.

In Hash-Range multilevel partitioning, you implement Hash partitioning at the first level
to implement load balancing and Range partitioning at the second level to implement time-
based partitioning.

CREATE COLUMN TABLE Table_name (a INT, b INT, c INT, PRIMARY KEY (a,b))
PARTITION BY HASH (a, b) PARTITIONS 4, RANGE (c) (PARTITION 1 <= VALUES < 10,
PARTITION 10 <= VALUES < 20)

Instead of using Hash partitioning at the first level, you can also use Round Robin
partitioning and it is known as Round Robin-Range multilevel partitioning.

CREATE COLUMN TABLE Table_name (a INT, b INT, c INT) PARTITION BY ROUNDROBIN

PARTITIONS 4, RANGE (c) (PARTITION 1 <= VALUES < 10, PARTITION 10 <=
VALUES < 20)

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SAP HANA Admin

In SAP HANA system, it is also possible to replicate tables on multiple hosts. When you
need to join the tables or partition tables on multiple hosts, table replication is useful to
improve the performance, to reduce the load on the network in a distributed environment.

SAP HANA table replication has certain limitations:

 You can’t replicate Partitioned Tables.

 When you are using SAP BW on HANA, it doesn’t support Table replication.

 When you perform table replication, it consumes the main memory and disk
space to store persistence of each replica.

 Column store tables with history tables and text columns without a primary key
can’t be replicated.

Create Column Store Tables with Replica on All Hosts in Multiple

Container System
CREATE COLUMN TABLE Table_Name (I INT PRIMARY KEY) REPLICA AT ALL LOCATIONS

This command will create a column store table with a replica on each host. You can also
replicate an existing column base table on each available host using ALTER table command
as follows:

ALTER TABLE Table_Name ADD REPLICA AT ALL LOCATIONS

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It is also possible to drop replica of an existing table using ALTER table drop replica
command as follows.

ALTER TABLE Table_name DROP REPLICA AT ALL LOCATIONS

Note:

 You can perform Table Replication on row store tables.

 In a distributed environment, you can perform table replications on row store

tables stored in master node.

In SAP HANA system, you can also perform consistency check on replicated tables using
the following SQL command:

CALL CHECK_TABLE_CONSISTENCY('CHECK_REPLICATION', '<schema>', '<table'>)

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SAP HANA Admin

Using SAP Column store tables, you can perform data compression up to 11 times, which
results in a cost-saving solution to store more data in HANA database. Column store tables
also provide faster data access, search, and complex calculations.

The ratio of uncompressed data size to compressed data size is known as Compression
Factor. The compressed table size is the size occupied by the table in the main memory
of SAP HANA database.

Check Compression of a Column Table

Using SAP HANA Studio, you can find out the compression status of a column store table
and also the compression factor. To find compression details, you need to first load the
table into memory.

To load a table into SAP HANA memory, you should have -

 System privilege: TABLE ADMIN

 Object privilege: UPDATE for the table or the schema in which the table is
located

You can also load a table using SQL command. Open the SQL console and execute the
following statement:

LOAD <table_name>
UNLOAD <table_name>

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Note that when you load a table, it loads the complete data and also delta storage into the
main memory of SAP HANA system.

To perform data compression, run the following SQL command to check data compression
properties.

SELECT SCHEMA_NAME, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, COMPRESSION_TYPE, LOADED from

PUBLIC.M_CS_COLUMNS where SCHEMA_NAME='<your_schema>' and
TABLE_NAME='<your_table>'

You can check the output in Result tab.

To check the Compression ratio for a table, you can navigate to Table Definition. Go to
Runtime Information.

To see Compression Ratio, go to Columns tab. You can see the compression ratio in the
Main Size Compression Ratio [%] column.

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Compress a Table Manually in SAP HANA

It is also possible to compress a table in SAP HANA system manually by executing the
following SQL statement.

UPDATE "table_name" WITH PARAMETERS ('OPTIMIZE_COMPRESSION'='YES')

This results in deciding whether a compression is required or an existing compression can

be optimized. In this scenario, HANA system uses most suitable compression algorithm.

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When you run the above SQL command, compression status remains the same. You can
also force the database to reevaluate compression using the following SQL status:

UPDATE "AA_HANA11"."SHOP_FACTS" WITH PARAMETERS

('OPTIMIZE_COMPRESSION'='FORCE')

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SAP HANA Admin

You can also support your SAP HANA system by using SAP Solution Manager. To make two
systems communicate with each other, you need to register your SAP HANA system to
SAP solution manager’s System Landscape Directory (SLD). This directory contains the
information about the landscape and software component versions. A SAP system can be
configured to register under SLD. SLD manages the information about all installable and
installed elements of your system landscape.

Important Checks
To register your SAP HANA system under SLD, you should meet the following
prerequisites:

 Your SAP HANA system should be installed with SAP HANA Database Lifecycle
Manager (HDBLCM).

 You should be logged in with Administrator account of SID<adm> credentials.

 SAP HANA system is running.

To perform the integration of SAP HANA system under SLD, open SAP HANA Database
Lifecycle Manager GUI. You can open SAP HANA Database Lifecycle Manager via HANA
cockpit or via HANA Studio -> Platform Lifecycle Manager.

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Navigate to Configure System Landscape Registry Configuration under SAP HANA Platform
Lifecycle Management.

Enter the following information under System Landscape Directory:

 SLD Host Name ─ Name of the host where the SLD system is installed.

 SLD Port ─ Enter the standard HTTP access port of the SLD.

 SLD User Name ─ Enter the user of the SLD system. It must be a user that
already exists on the host where the SLD system is running.

 SLD Password ─ Enter the password for the SLD system.

 Use HTTPS ─ Here you can mention whether to use HTTPS or not.

Click the Run button to finish the configuration under System Landscape Directory.

You can also perform the above steps from the command line, by executing the following
command:

./hdblcm --action=configure_sld

Enter the above specified parameters using command line. Select ’y’ to finalize the
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SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA Lifecycle Management includes two features in HANA system: Platform Lifecycle
Management for performing updates and customizing SAP HANA platform, and Application
Lifecycle Management to manage applications based on SAP HANA system and transports.

SAP HANA Admin ─ Platform Lifecycle Management

SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Manager can be used to perform installation and update of
SAP HANA system, to configure additional components, post installation configuration, to
add or remove hosts, to view system information, and to configure inter-service
communication.

Following are the key features under SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Manager:

 You can integrate your SAP HANA system with business solutions such as - SAP
Solution Manager by registering under System Landscape Directory SLD.

 You can also add/remove hosts to your SAP HANA landscape.

 You can add and configure additional components, rename your HANA system or
you can convert a single container system to multiple container system and vice
versa as shown in the following screenshot.

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In the above screenshot, you can see different options under SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle
Management.

SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management can be accessed via three ways:

 Web User Interface

 Graphical User Interface
 Command Line

SAP HANA Admin ─ Application Lifecycle Management

You can use SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management to support all the phases of
lifecycle of SAP HANA application development, defining the application structure to
perform transport and update management for Applications.

SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Manager supports various phases of application

development:

 Model: Define Package structure, define package hierarchy, and assign packages
to Delivery Units for application development.

 Develop: Perform application development in packages and to track changes.

 Transport: Transport your developed application and it can be done using

transporting products or delivery units.

 Assemble: Assemble your developed product and translation delivery units for
assembling your add-on product.

 Install: Install products and software components from SAP Support Portal.

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Access SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

To access SAP HANA ALM, you can open SAP HANA Cockpit and navigate to SAP HANA
Application Lifecycle Management.

You can click HANA Application Lifecycle Management from here or can be opened
directly using the web browser.
http://<WebServerHost>:80<SAPHANAinstance>/sap/hana/xs/lm

Example: In our system, HANA ALM is accessed using the link -

https://hanaerp:4312/sap/hana/xs/lm/?page=HomeTab

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In SAP HANA Cockpit, you can use tiles available in the SAP HANA Application Lifecycle
Management and in the SAP HANA Application Installation and Update groups. These tiles
can be customized as per your requirement.

SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management Roles

In order to perform SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management tasks, you should assign
application lifecycle management roles to the users. There are various roles that are
available in SAP HANA system to perform HALM tasks. Few of the key roles include:

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::Administrator

This role is required to perform all read and write operations in the SAP HANA Application
Lifecycle Management and to grant access privilege to other uses in SAP HALM
environment.

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::Developer

This role is required to perform changes and to work on the change list and add objects to
the change list from the development perspective.

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::ExecuteTransport

This role is required to perform specific transport operations but they can’t perform system
register or maintain systems, define new transport routes, delivery units, or new packages
in the repository.

These roles can be assigned to the users using SAP HANA Cockpit or under SAP HANA
Studio -> Security tab.

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In the above screenshot, you can see different SAP HANA Application Lifecycle
Management roles that can be assigned to the users for performing development and
transport tasks.

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HANA Admin

It is necessary to implement security in SAP HANA environment to protect critical

information and access the database system. You should properly manage authentication
and authorization methods, and security policies should be reviewed regularly.

You should also manage the users and roles, auditing activities in SAP HANA, encryption
of data in HANA database, and client certificates in the system.

SAP HANA system has many security settings that should be implemented carefully
otherwise any misconfiguration can result in a risk of unauthorized access.

SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio provides you with different options to monitor critical
security settings.

Following is a list of security related features provided by SAP HANA:

 User and Role Management

 Authentication and SSO
 Authorization
 Encryption of data communication in Network
 Encryption of data in Persistence Layer

Additional features in multitenant HANA database:

 Database Isolation: It involves preventing cross-tenant attacks through the

operating system mechanism.

 Configuration Change blacklist: It involves preventing certain system properties

from being changed by tenant database administrators.

 Restricted Features: It involves disabling certain database features that provides

direct access to the file system, the network, or other resources.

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View Security Settings in SAP HANA Cockpit

To view security settings in SAP HANA system, open SAP HANA Cockpit and navigate to
SAP HANA Security Overview group.

You should have the role sap.hana.security.cockpit.roles::DisplaySecurityDashboard

assigned to view the security settings in HANA Cockpit.

You can check the status of security on each tile under SAP HANA Security Overview. You
can further drill down by clicking on any tile to see more details.

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SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA user and role management configuration depends on the architecture of your
HANA system. If SAP HANA is integrated with BI platform tools and acts as a reporting
database, then the end user and the role are managed in the application server.

If the end user directly connects to SAP HANA database, then the user and the role in the
database layer of HANA system is required for both end users and administrators.

Every user who wants to work with HANA database must have a database user with
necessary privileges. User accessing HANA system can either be a technical user or an end
user depending on the access requirement. After successful logon to the system, the user’s
authorization to perform the required operation is verified. Executing that operation
depends on the privileges that the user has been granted. These privileges can be granted
using roles in HANA Security. HANA Studio is one of the powerful tools to manage the user
and the roles for HANA database system.

User Types
User types vary according to the security policies and different privileges assigned to the
user profile. User type can be a technical database user or an end user. The user needs
access to HANA system for reporting the purpose or for data manipulation.

Standard Users
Standard users are the users who can create objects in their own Schemas and have Read
access in the system Information models. Read access is provided by PUBLIC role, which
is assigned to every standard user.

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Restricted Users
Restricted users are those users who access HANA system with some applications and they
don’t have SQL privileges on HANA system. When these users are created they don’t have
any access initially.

If we compare restricted users with Standard users:

 Restricted users can’t create objects in HANA database or their own Schemas.

 They don’t have access to view any data in the database as they don’t have
generic Public role added to profile like standard users.

 They can connect to HANA database only using HTTP/HTTPS.

HANA Users Administration and Role Management

Technical database users are used only for administrative purpose such as creating new
objects in the database, assigning privileges to other users, on packages, applications,
etc.

SAP HANA User Administration Activities

Depending on the business needs and the configuration of HANA system, there are
different user activities that can be performed using user administration tools such as
HANA studio.

Most common activities include:

 Create users
 Grant roles to users
 Define and create roles
 Delete users
 Reset user passwords
 Reactivate users after too many failed logon attempts
 Deactivate users when it is required

Create Users in HANA Studio

Only database users with the system privilege ROLE ADMIN are allowed to create users
and roles in HANA Studio. To create users and roles in HANA Studio, go to HANA
Administrator Console. You will see the security tab in System view.

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When you expand the security tab, it gives an option of User and Roles. To create a new
user, right-click on the User and go to New User. A new window will open where you define
User and User parameters.

Enter the user name (mandate) and in the Authentication field enter the password.
Password is applied while saving password for a new user. You can also choose to create
a restricted user.

The specified role name must not be identical to the name of an existing user or role. The
password rules include a minimal password length and a definition of which character
types (lower, upper, digit, special characters) have to be part of the password.

Different authorization methods can be configured such as SAML, X509 certificates, SAP
Logon ticket, etc. Users in the database can be authenticated by varying mechanisms:

 Internal authentication mechanism using a password.

 External mechanisms such as Kerberos, SAML, SAP Logon Ticket, SAP Assertion
Ticket or X.509.

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 A user can be authenticated by more than one mechanism at a time. However

only one password and one principal name for Kerberos can be valid at any one
time. One authentication mechanism has to be specified to allow the user to
connect and work with the database instance.

It also gives an option to define the validity of the user. You can mention the validity
interval by selecting the dates. Validity specification is an optional user parameter.

There are some users that are by default delivered with the SAP HANA database: SYS,
SYSTEM, _SYS_REPO, _SYS_STATISTICS.

Once this is done, next is to define the privileges for the user profile.

Types of Privileges to User Profile

There are different types of privileges that can be added to the user profile.

Granted Role
This is used to add inbuilt sap.hana roles to the user profile or to add custom roles created
under Roles tab. Custom roles allow you to define roles as per access requirement and
you can add these roles directly to the user profile. This removes the need to remember
and add objects to a user profile every time for different access types.

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Public Role
This is a generic role and is assigned to all database users by default. This role contains
read-only access to system views and execute privileges for some procedures. These roles
cannot be revoked.

Modeling
It contains all privileges required for using the information modeler in the SAP HANA
studio.

System Privileges
There are different types of System privileges that can be added to a user profile. To add
system privileges to a user profile, click on the (+) sign.

System privileges are used for Backup/Restore, User Administration, Instance start and
stop, etc.

Content Admin
It contains the similar privileges as that in MODELING role, but with the addition that this
role is allowed to grant these privileges to other users. It also contains the repository
privileges to work with imported objects.

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Data Admin
This is another type of privilege that is required for adding Data from the objects to the
user profile.

Following are some common supported System Privileges:

ATTACH DEBUGGER - Authorizes the debugging of a procedure call, called by a different

user. Additionally, the DEBUG privilege for the corresponding procedure is needed.

AUDIT ADMIN - Controls the execution of the following auditing-related commands:

CREATE AUDIT POLICY, DROP AUDIT POLICY and ALTER AUDIT POLICY and the changes
of the auditing configuration. Also allows access to AUDIT_LOG system view.

AUDIT OPERATOR - Authorizes the execution of the following command: ALTER SYSTEM
CLEAR AUDIT LOG. Also allows access to AUDIT_LOG system view.

BACKUP ADMIN - Authorizes BACKUP and RECOVERY commands for defining and
initiating backup and recovery procedures.

BACKUP OPERATOR - Authorizes the BACKUP command to initiate a backup process.

CATALOG READ - Authorizes the users to have unfiltered read-only access to all system
views. Normally, the content of these views is filtered based on the privileges of the
accessing user.

CREATE SCHEMA - Authorizes the creation of database schemas using the CREATE
SCHEMA command. By default, each user owns one schema. With this privilege, the user
is allowed to create additional schemas.

CREATE STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE - Authorizes the creation of Structured Privileges

(Analytical Privileges). Only the owner of an Analytical Privilege can further grant or revoke
that privilege to other users or roles.

CREDENTIAL ADMIN - Authorizes the credential commands: CREATE/ALTER/DROP

CREDENTIAL.

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DATA ADMIN - Authorizes reading all data in the system views. It also enables the
execution of any Data Definition Language (DDL) commands in the SAP HANA database.
A user having this privilege cannot select or change data stored tables for which they do
not have access privileges, but they can drop tables or modify table definitions.

DATABASE ADMIN - Authorizes all commands related to databases in a multi-database,

such as CREATE, DROP, ALTER, RENAME, BACKUP, RECOVERY.

EXPORT - Authorizes export activity in the database via the EXPORT TABLE command.
Note that besides this privilege, the user requires the SELECT privilege on the source tables
to be exported.

IMPORT - Authorizes the import activity in the database using the IMPORT commands.
Note that besides this privilege, the user requires the INSERT privilege on the target tables
to be imported.

INIFILE ADMIN - Authorizes changing of system settings.

LICENSE ADMIN - Authorizes the SET SYSTEM LICENSE command to install a new
license.

LOG ADMIN - Authorizes the ALTER SYSTEM LOGGING [ON|OFF] commands to enable or
disable the log flush mechanism.

MONITOR ADMIN - Authorizes the ALTER SYSTEM commands for EVENTs.

OPTIMIZER ADMIN - Authorizes the ALTER SYSTEM commands concerning SQL PLAN
CACHE and ALTER SYSTEM UPDATE STATISTICS commands, which influence the behavior
of the query optimizer.

RESOURCE ADMIN - Authorizes commands concerning system resources. For example,

ALTER SYSTEM RECLAIM DATAVOLUME and ALTER SYSTEM RESET MONITORING VIEW. It
also authorizes many of the commands available in the Management Console.

ROLE ADMIN - Authorizes the creation and deletion of roles using the CREATE ROLE and
DROP ROLE commands. It also authorizes the granting and revocation of roles using the
GRANT and REVOKE commands.

Activated roles, meaning roles whose creator is the pre-defined user _SYS_REPO, can
neither be granted to other roles or users nor dropped directly. Users having ROLE ADMIN
privilege are also not able to do so. Please check documentation concerning activated
objects.

SAVEPOINT ADMIN - Authorizes the execution of a savepoint process using the ALTER
SYSTEM SAVEPOINT command.

Components of the SAP HANA database can create new system privileges. These privileges
use the component-name as the first identifier of the system privilege and the component-
privilege-name as the second identifier.

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Object/SQL Privileges
Object privileges are also known as SQL privileges. These privileges are used to allow
access to objects like Select, Insert, Update and Delete of tables, Views, or Schemas.

Following are the types of Object Privileges:

 Object privilege on database objects that exist only in runtime.

 Object privilege on activated objects created in the repository, such as calculation

views.

 Object privilege on schema containing activated objects created in the repository.

 Object/SQL Privileges are collection of all DDL and DML privileges on database
objects.

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Following are some commonly supported Object Privileges:

There are multiple database objects in HANA database, so not all the privileges are
applicable to all kinds of database objects.

Object Privileges and their applicability on database objects.

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Analytic Privileges in User Profile

Sometime it is required that data in the same view shouldn’t be accessible to other users
who don’t have any relevant requirement for that data.

Analytic privileges are used to limit the access on HANA Information Views at the object
level. We can apply row and column level security in Analytic Privileges.

Analytic Privileges are used for:

 Allocation of row and column level security for specific value range
 Allocation of row and column level security for modeling views

Package Privileges
In the SAP HANA repository, you can set package authorizations for a specific user or for
a role. Package privileges are used to allow access to data models - Analytic or Calculation
views or on to Repository objects. All privileges that are assigned to a repository package
are assigned to all sub packages too. You can also mention if the assigned user
authorizations can be passed to other users.

Steps to add package privileges to User profile:

 Step 1: Click Package privilege tab in HANA studio under User creation ->Choose
(+) sign to add one or more packages. Use Ctrl key to select multiple packages.

 Step 2: In the Select Repository Package dialog, use all or part of the package
name to locate the repository package that you want to authorize access to.

 Step 3: Select one or more repository packages that you want to authorize access
to, the selected packages appear in the Package Privileges tab.

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Following grant privileges are used on repository packages to authorize the user to modify
the objects -

 REPO.READ: Read access to the selected package and design-time objects (both
native and imported)

 REPO.EDIT_NATIVE_OBJECTS: Authorization to modify objects in packages

 Grantable to Others

If you choose ‘Yes’ for this, this allows assigned user authorization to pass to the other
users.

Application Privileges
Application privileges in a user profile used to define authorization for access to HANA XS
application. This can be assigned to an individual user or to a group of users. Application
privileges can also be used to provide different level of access to the same application such
as to provide advanced functions for database administrators and read-only access to
normal users.

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To define Application specific privileges in a user profile or to add a group of users,

following privileges should be used:

 Application-privileges file (.xsprivileges)

 Application-access file (.xsaccess)
 Role-definition file (<RoleName>.hdbrole)

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Methods
HANA Admin

All SAP HANA users who have access to HANA database are verified with different
Authentication methods. SAP HANA system supports various types of authentication
methods and all these login methods are configured at the time of profile creation.

Following is the list of authentication methods supported by SAP HANA:

 User name/Password
 Kerberos
 SAML 2.0
 SAP Logon tickets
 X.509

User Name/Password
This method requires HANA user to enter the user name and password to login to
database. This user profile is created under User management in HANA Studio -> Security
Tab.

Password should be as per password policy. For example - Password length, complexity,
lower and upper case letters, etc. You can change the password policy as per your
organization’s security standards.

Note: The password policy cannot be deactivated.

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Kerberos
All users who connect to HANA database system using an external authentication method
should also have a database user. It is required to map the external login to the internal
database user.

This method enables the users to authenticate HANA system directly, using JDBC/ODBC
drivers through the network or by using front-end applications in SAP Business Objects.

It also allows HTTP access in HANA Extended Service using HANA XS engine. It uses
SPENGO mechanism for Kerberos authentication.

SAML
SAML stands for Security Assertion Markup Language and can be used to authenticate the
users accessing HANA system directly from ODBC/JDBC clients. It can also be used to
authenticate the users in HANA system, coming via HTTP through HANA XS engine.

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SAML is used only for authentication purposes and not for authorization.

SAP Logon and Assertion Tickets

SAP Logon/assertion tickets can be used to authenticate the users in HANA system. These
tickets are issued to the users when they login into SAP system, which is configured to
issue tickets such as SAP Portal, etc. User specified in SAP logon tickets should be created
in HANA system as it doesn’t provide support for the mapping users.

X.509 Client Certificates

X.509 certificates can also be used to login to HANA system via HTTP access request from
HANA XS engine. Users are authenticated by certificates that are signed from trusted
Certificate Authority, which is stored in HANA XS system.

The user in trusted certificate should exist in HANA system as there is no support for user
mapping.

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Single Sign On in HANA System

Single sign on can be configured in HANA system, which allows the users to login to HANA
system from an initial authentication on the client. User logins at client applications using
different authentication methods and SSO allows the user to access HANA system directly.

SSO can be configured using the following configuration methods:

 SAML
 Kerberos
 X.509 client certificates for HTTP access from HANA XS engine
 SAP Logon/Assertion tickets

You can also use SAP HANA Cockpit for performing user and role management tasks.

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SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA audit policy specifies the actions to be audited and also the condition under
which the action must be performed to be relevant for auditing. Audit Policy defines what
activities have been performed in HANA system and who has performed those activities at
what time.

SAP HANA database auditing feature allows to monitor the action performed in HANA
system. SAP HANA audit policy must be activated on HANA system to use it. When an
action is performed, the policy triggers an audit event to write an audit trail. You can also
delete audit entries in Audit trail.

In a distributed environment, where you have multiple database, Audit policy can be
enabled on each individual system. For the system database, audit policy is defined in
nameserver.ini file and for tenant database it is defined in global.ini file.

Audit in the SAP HANA Cockpit

You can configure and activate Auditing policy in SAP HANA system using SAP HANA
Cockpit. There is an Auditing app in SAP HANA Cockpit that can be used for auditing
activities.

The role required to perform auditing in HANA system:

sap.hana.security.cockpit.roles::MaintainAuditPolicy

In SAP HANA Cockpit, Auditing tile is available under SAP HANA Security Overview as in
the following screenshot.

When you open Auditing App, navigate to Configuration tab and select Edit button from
the bottom.

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Next, select Auditing status to Enabled. You have to configure multiple audit trail targets:
one for the system (Overall Audit Trail Target), and optionally one or more for the severity
of audited actions that is the audit level of the corresponding audit entries.

If you do not configure a specific target for an audit level, audit entries are written to the
audit trail target configured for the system.

By default, database table is default audit trail target. You can also select - Syslog, CSV
text file for audit trail target.

Create an Audit Policy

You can define an audit policy to monitor the actions for audit. When an action is
performed, the policy is triggered and an audit event is written to audit trail. You can
create an audit policy using Auditing app of HANA system.

Step 1: To create an Audit Policy, navigate to Audit Policies tab.

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Step 2: On the right side, create Audit Policy button. Click the Create Audit Policy button
and enter the Policy name.

Step 3: Select the status of Audit Policy. You can select Enabled/Disabled option.

Step 4: Select the Action status.

 SUCCESSFUL - The action is audited only when the SQL statement is successfully
executed.

 UNSUCCESSFUL - The action is audited only when the SQL statement is unsuccessfully
executed.

 ALL - The action is audited when the SQL statement is both successfully and
unsuccessfully executed.

Step 5: Select the audit level. The audit level specifies the severity of the audit entry
written to the audit trail when the actions in the policy occur.

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Step 6: Select Audit Trail Target. Audit entries triggered by this policy will be written to
the specified audit trail target(s).

Step 7: Enter the actions to be audited by clicking the add button and selecting the
relevant actions.

There are different Actions that can be selected using Add Action button as shown in the
following screenshot.

In Add action, you need to enter the target object(s) to be audited by clicking the add
button and selecting the relevant objects. You can also select actions to be audited. For
example: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and EXECUTE. You can click the Save button
to SAVE the policy.

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Check Audit Details in HANA Cockpit

In SAP HANA Cockpit, you can check the audit details of all Audit Policies. When you open
the Audit app of SAP HANA Cockpit, navigate to Audit Policies tab. You will find the
following details.

Note: You can manage Auditing Policy in SAP HANA Studio as well. Please check our SAP
HANA tutorial -

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sap_hana/sap_hana_auditing.htm

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24. SAP HANA Admin ─ Backing Up HANA System
SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA backup and recovery is used to perform HANA system backups and recovery of
system in case of any database failure.

To view backup details, you can navigate to SAP HANA Backup app in HANA Cockpit. You
can see the last backup status on the main screen and it can be customized.

When you open Data Backup app, you can see different options related to data backup.
You can create a new backup or you can add schedules.

You can also see the last backup status, time, duration, size and destination type details
under Backup Catalog details.

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You can also perform SAP HANA Backup using HANA Studio. Navigate to Backup Folder in
System view.

Overview Tab
This tab specifies the status of the currently running data backup and last successful data
backup.

Backup now option can be used to run data backup wizard.

Configuration Tab
This tab specifies the Backup interval settings, file-based data backup settings, and log-
based data backup setting.

Backup Interval Settings

Backint settings provides an option to use third party tool for data and log backup with
configuration of a backing agent.

Configure the connection to a third-party backup tool by specifying a parameter file for
the Backint agent.

File and Log Based Data Backup Settings

File-based data backup setting specifies the folder where you want to save the data backup
on HANA system. You can change your backup folder.

You can also limit the size of data backup files. If the system data backup exceeds this set
file size, it will split across the multiple files.

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Log backup settings specify the destination folder where you want to save log backup on
the external server. You can choose a destination type for log backup.

File − Ensures sufficient space in the system to store backups.

Backint − Special named pipe exists on the file system, however, require no disk space.

You can choose backup interval from the dropdown. It tells the longest amount of time
that can pass before a new log backup is written.

Backup Interval - It can be in seconds, minutes, or hours.

Enable Automatic log backup option - Checking this option, helps to keep the log area
vacant. If you disable this option, the log area will continue to fill and cause the database
to hang.

Open Backup Wizard − To run the backup of system.

Backup wizard is used to specify backup settings. It specifies the Backup type, Destination
type, Backup Destination folder, Backup prefix, the size of backup, etc.

Click Next -> Review Backup settings -> Finish. It runs the system backups and shows
the time of complete backup for each server.

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SAP HANA Admin

To recover SAP HANA database, the database needs to shut down. Hence, during recovery,
the end users or SAP applications cannot access the database.

Recovery of SAP HANA database is required in the following situations −

 A disk in the data area is unusable or a disk in the log area is unusable.

 As a consequence of a logical error, the database needs to be reset to its state at

a particular point in time.

 You want to create a copy of the database.

How to Recover a HANA System?

Choose HANA system -> Right-click -> Back and Recovery -> Recover System.

Types of Recovery in HANA System

Most Recent State: Used for recovering the database to the time as close as possible to
the current time. For this recovery, the data backup and log backup have to be available
since the last data backup and the log area is required to perform the above type recovery.

Point in Time: Used for recovering the database to the specific point in time. For this
recovery, the data backup and log backup have to be available, since last data backup and
the log area are required to perform the above type of recovery.

Specific Data Backup: Used for recovering the database to a specified data backup.
Specific data backup is required for the above type of recovery option.

Specific Log Position: This recovery type is an advanced option that can be used in
exceptional cases where a previous recovery failed.

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26. SAP HANA Admin ─ HANA XS Application Service
SAP HANA Admin

In SAP HANA system, there are many tools that can be used to manage application
development in HANA XS Service Classic model and Advance model. You can provide
administering and support services to XS service model or you can also perform
development under SAP HANA system.

HANA XS Application service includes tools available under SAP HANA XS Administration
Cockpit or you can also use SAP HANA Studio to maintain application development under
HANA XS service.

Following are the various roles that exist under SAP HANA system to manage XS
Application Service.

HTTPDestAdministrator
Full access to the details of HTTP destination configurations (display and edit).

HTTPDestViewer
Read-only access to HTTP destination configurations, which are used to specify connection
details for outbound connections. For example, using the server-side JavaScript
Connectivity API that is included with SAP HANA XS.

RuntimeConfAdministrator
Full access to the configuration settings for SAP HANA XS application security and related
user-authentication providers.

RuntimeConfViewer
Read-only access to the configuration settings for SAP HANA XS application security and
related user-authentication providers. For example, SAML or X509.

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There are various roles that exist in SAP HANA system to manage HANA XS Application
Service as shown in the above screenshot.

XS Service Tools Under SAP HANA Cockpit

In SAP HANA Cockpit, there are various tools that you can use to maintain HANA XS
Service. They are web-based tool that allows you to configure and maintain the basic
administration-related elements of the application-development process and environment.

XS Artifact Administration
This is used to maintain runtime configurations for individual applications or a complete
application hierarchy.

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XS Job Dashboard
This is used to monitor and maintain SAP HANA XS job schedules defined using the XS job
syntax.

Trust Manager
This is used to maintain certificates which are used to establish trust relationships between
servers used by SAP HANA XS applications.

SMTP Configuration
This tile is used to define the details of SMTP server that is available for use by all
applications running on an SAP HANA XS server.

User Self-service Tool

This tile provides the set of tools that allows to maintain self-service requests and
administrate the self-service tools by the users.

How to View Configuration Parameters for SAP HANA XS Engine in HANA

Studio?
To view the configuration details of HANA XS Engine in HANA Studio, double-click HANA
system in the system view pane. Navigate to Configuration tab.

Navigate to xsengine.ini file under the configuration tab and expand the folder. You can
view the various configuration parameters as shown in the following screenshot.

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Application_container
This contains list of all the applications trusted by XS Engine.

Communication
This contains application-related connection requests and configuration.

Customer_usage
This defines customer specific usage details for HANA application service.

Debugger
This is used to manage debugger settings.

Httpserver
This provides SAP HANA XS Web Server details. Other options under xsengine.ini is used
to define SAP HANA XS application service configuration.

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 27. SAP HANA Admin ─ Data Provisioning
SAP HANA Admin

SAP HANA Replication allows the migration of data from source systems to SAP HANA
database. A simple way to move data from the existing SAP system to HANA is by using
various data replication techniques.

System replication can be set up on the console via command line or by using HANA studio.
The primary ECC or transaction systems can stay online during this process. There are
three types of data replication methods in HANA system −

 SAP LT Replication method

 ETL tool SAP Business Object Data Service (BODS) method
 Direct Extractor Connection method (DXC)

SAP LT Replication Method

SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) Replication is a trigger-based data replication
method in HANA system. It is a perfect solution for replicating real-time data or schedule-
based replication from SAP and non-SAP sources. It has SAP LT Replication server, which
takes care of all trigger requests. Replication server can be installed as a standalone server
or can run on any SAP system with SAP NW 7.02 or above.

There is a trusted RFC connection between HANA DB and ECC transaction system, which
enables trigger-based data replication in HANA system environment.

ETL SAP Data Services Replication

SAP HANA ETL based replication uses SAP Data Services to migrate data from SAP or non-
SAP source system to target HANA database. BODS system is an ETL tool used to extract,
transform, and load data from the source system to the target system.

It enables to read the business data at the Application layer. You need to define data flows
in Data Services, scheduling a replication job, and defining the source and the target
system in data store in Data Services designer.

Direct Extractor Connection Method (DXC)

Direct Extractor Connection data replication reuses the existing extraction, transformation,
and load mechanism built into SAP Business Suite systems via a simple HTTP(S)
connection to SAP HANA. It is a batch-driven data replication technique. It is considered
as a method for extraction, transformation, and load with limited capabilities for data
extraction.

DXC is a batch-driven process and data extraction using DXC at certain interval is enough
in many cases. You can set an interval when batch job executes, for example, every 20
minutes. In most of the cases it is sufficient to extract data using these batch jobs at
certain time intervals.

You can check complete details about Data Provisioning in our SAP HANA tutorial -

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sap_hana/data_replication_overview.htm
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SAP HANA Admin

In SAP HANA system, you can use Smart Data Access (SDA) option to replicate data to
HANA database from other data sources where you create virtual tables, which are linked
to tables in the remote system. You can perform read/write operations on these virtual
tables - SELECT, Insert, and Update.

Different types of remote systems can be used under Smart Data Access:

 SAP HANA
 Sybase
 Teradata
 Apache Hadoop
 Oracle

All the above remote data sources are supported under HANA SPS07 or higher. Older
version of SAP HANA supports only - Sybase, Apache Hadoop, and Teradata.

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System
HANA Admin

Connection

To create a new remote connection, navigate to Data Provisioning tab -> New Remote
Sources.

Enter Source name and select Adapter from the dropdown list. On the right hand side, you
have option to Test the Connection. You can also run to create the data source.

Once you set up the connection, it can be used to perform read/write functions in remote
system and to join the tables for data provisioning.

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30. SAP HANA Admin ─ Integration withSAPHadoop
HANA Admin

In SAP HANA system, you can also integrate SAP HANA computing power with Hadoop to
process huge amount of data at faster speed. Hadoop system is used for storing huge
amount of unstructured data and HANA provides high speed data analysis.

Following scenarios can be used to connect SAP HANA system to Hadoop:

 Hive ODBC Driver

 Smart Data Integration
 HANA Spark Controller

To use Smart Data Access to connect to Hadoop system in HANA Studio, select Adapter
Name: Hadoop.

In Connection Properties, enter the URL and Credentials.

You can also use the following SQL statement to create a remote connection to connect to
Hadoop system. We have selected Authentication type as Password here:

CREATE REMOTE SOURCE RC_Hadoop

ADAPTER "hadoop"
CONFIGURATION 'webhdfs_url=http://
<full_qualified_domain_name>
:
50070;webhcat_url=http://
<full_qualified_domain_name>
:50111'
WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE 'PASSWORD'
USING 'user=username;password=pwd';

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Enter the above SQL statement in HANA Studio SQL editor and click the Execute button.

This way you can integrate your SAP HANA system with Hadoop using Smart data
integration in HANA Studio.

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SAP HANA Admin

Display the general information about HANA database and has to be

executed in the command line
hdbsql -n localhost -i 1 -u username -p Password \s

This command will display the details of HANA database such as the host name, database,
user, Kernel version, SQLDBC version, etc.

View the concurrent database login to HANA database

hdbsql -n localhost -i 1 -u username -p Password "SELECT
CNO,TITLE,FIRSTNAME,NAME,ZIP FROM Database_Name"

The above command displays the following result about concurrent sessions:

CNO | TITLE | FIRSTNAME | NAME | ZIP

Start and stop HANA database from HDB

To start and stop HANA database using HDB, you have to login to HANA system host as
<sid>adm and run the following command:

/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance number>/HDB start

/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance number>/HDB stop

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SAP HANA Admin

Following are certain experiences and capabilities required to handle the job responsibility
of HANA Admin.

 Integration of SAP HANA into different remote systems. Exposure to different

remote access options in HANA system.

 Experience in monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP HANA systems.

 HANA system administration using SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio.

 Experience in managing users and roles in SAP HANA system.

 Implementing SAP HANA Table management techniques - data compression,

table partition, compression techniques, and load/unload table into memory.

 HANA Installation, Data Provisioning, Admin, Modelling.

 SAP BusinessObjects and HANA integration, Design document, RFPs, and

estimation plans.

 Experience with high availability and backup mechanism.

 Implementing SAP HANA Security mechanism, HANA XS Application service, and

monitoring of HANA system.

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