HANA 2 SPS00 Upgrade & Operations - Part 1 Exploring Features of the new Cockpit. In Part 1, we'll cover the following topics from the Basis perspective: * Upgrade: Preparation, Update and Post-tasks * HANA2 Cockpit: - Installation - Configuration - Manager - Resources - Groups - SAP HANA Monitoring and Administration - Security - Offline Administration - Performance Management - Capture and Replay - SAP HANA Options

1. HANA 2 – Upgrade & Operations Part 1
Exploring Features of the new Cockpit
• This is a collection of notes in upgrading to HANA 2 database and installing
and exploring the new HANA 2 Cockpit. Steps and process were based on
already publicly released documents and blogs
• Some features were explored in previous blog
HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features
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2. References: Publications and OSS notes
1. SAP HANA2 Administration Guide
2. 2380257 - SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS 00 Release
Note
3. 2380291 – SAP HANA 2.0 Cockpit Release Note
4. Presentations from SAP HANA International Focus
Group
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3. Summary of Topics
• Upgrade: Preparation, Update and Post-tasks
• HANA2 Cockpit:
• Installation
• Configuration
• Manager
• Resources
• Groups
• Monitoring and Administration
• Security
• Offline Administration
• Performance Management
• Capture and Replay
• SAP HANA Options
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4. Preparation
• Operating System Requirements
RHEL for SAP HANA 7.2, or
SLES for SAP applications 12 SP1
• Make sure to update to the latest components to avoid error
below
The operating system is not ready to perform gcc 5 assemblies
rpm package 'libgcc_s1' needs at least version 5.3.1. (current version =
5.2.1+r226025)
rpm package 'libstdc++6' needs at least version 5.3.1. (current version =
5.2.1+r226025)
For more information, see SAP Note 2338763.
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5. Preparation – 2
• Download and Extracting the downloaded components
Use hdblcm if the version has the option
‘- action=extract_components’
Another option is to download hdblcm_prepare.sh from OSS
note 2078425 and run it.
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6. Preparation - 3
The process of upgrading to HANA2 is similar to the normal
SPS release upgrade. Note that there is a ‘minimal’ source
system requirement to upgrade to HANA2.
Some of the steps before the actual upgrade
• Stop data replication
• Stop the ABAP connected to the HANA system
• As <sid>adm, stopsap R3
• Create a complete backup of the database. For MDC,
systemDB and tenant DBs.
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7. Database Update - 1
There are several ways of updating an SAP HANA System. The procedure
used in this document used the command line
As root,
Go to the extracted folder containing the hdblcm
/mnt/software/SAP/HANA2/extracted/SAP_HANA_DATABASE
./hdblcm -component_root=/mnt/software/SAP/HANA2
/extracted/SAP_HANA_DATABASE -install_hostagent=No
(Note: the install_hostagent=No is to bypass installation of hostagent if it
already has the latest version. Also, the SAP_HANA_DATABASE does not
contain the hostagent binaries – so it just waits on ‘Preparing package
‘saphostagent setup’ if install_hostagent=No is not specified!)
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8. Database Update - 2
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9. Database Update – Post Tasks
Brief ’standard’ upgrade post tasks
• Update SAP HANA Client
• Update SAP HANA Studio
• Update of SAP HANA replication components
• Update of BI clients
• Database backup
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10. HANA2 Cockpit - Installation 1
• A new version of HANA Cockpit is delivered with HANA2.
• In previous version, the HANA Cockpit is installed during the database
version installation, through delivery unit.
• HANA2 cockpit is installed using hdblcm, as a separated task - as ‘stand-
alone’ – not directly linked to a specific database, and it can be used to
administer and monitor several databases running on SAP HANA 2.0 or
HANA 1.0 SPS12.
• Note that some tasks still need to be done through HANA Studio
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HANA2 Cockpit
HANA2
SPS00
HANA1 SPS12

11. HANA2 Cockpit – Installation 2
• The minimal requirement for HANA2 cockpit is 16Gb of memory, but
suggest to have at least 32Gb
• We recommended that you install HANA2 Cockpit on its own server.
Installing it with another HANA database can cause memory and CPU
contention – and can make the HANA database’s indexserver to hang
• Note that with HANA2, the HANA Cockpit still appears in the HANA
Studio. But invoking it it through HANA Studio will result with error
below.
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12. HANA2 Cockpit – Installation 3
• Download the HANA2 Cockpit package
• Extract the package, in this example, hdblcm_prepare.sh is
used. Note that since folder ‘extracted’ already exist,
another folder ‘extracted1’ is created
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13. HANA2 Cockpit – Installation 4
• As root, go to the extract folder and run hdblcm
./hdblcm -
component_roots=/mnt/software/SAP/HANA2/extracted1/co
ckpit2_app -install_hostagent=No
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14. HANA2 Cockpit – Installation 5
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15. HANA2 Cockpit – Installation 6
• Displaying HANA2 Cockpit services/process
• HDB info
• Using sapcontrol – note the extra processes XS Controller
and XS UA Server
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16. Determining Cockpit ports - 1
• The installation log displays the port of HANA Cockpit and
HANA Cockpit Manager. Another way of finding, as HANA
Cockpit <sid>adm –
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17. Determining Cockpit ports - 2
• HANA cockpit is listed as ‘cockpit-web-app’ – 51021
• Cockpit manager is listed as ‘cockpit-admin-web-app’ –
51023
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18. HANA Cockpit Manager (1)
• URL is https://<server>:51023
• Login as COCKPIT_ADMIN, using the master password
specified during the installation
The HANA2 Cockpit is also a
resource
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A resource is an SAP HANA
system, identified by a host
and instance number, which
may be a system- or tenant-
database in a multitenant
database container, or a
single- or multi-host system in
a single database container.
.. From Administration Guide

19. HANA Cockpit Manager (2)
• The first time COCKPIT_ADMIN logs in,
• Click Yes
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20. Resource
Adding/Registering a resource
1. Create a ‘technical’ user in the ’resource’ system
CREATE USER <username> PASSWORD <password> NO
FORCE_FIRST_PASSWORD_CHANGE;
GRANT CATALOG READ to <username>;
GRANT SELECT on SCHEMA _SYS_STATISTICS to <username>
..And grant other appropriate roles
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21. Resource (2)
2. Specify resource details
3. Enter technical user and password
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• For MDC, both SYSTEM and
tenant DB should be registered
• HANA Cockpit is also defined as
resource

22. Resource (3)
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Review, then Register
Register each resource

23. Groups
Groups allows monitoring several systems in single view
• Create groups per usage, type, version, etc.
• Assign resource to a group
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TIP
• Create a group by usage
• Create a user and assign specific
group for administration,
monitoring

24. Resource and Groups
Aggregate view of registered resources
• This allows overview of any resource that may have issue
Resource
Directory
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HANA Cockpit
System DB
and Tenant

25. HANA Cockpit
General sections in HANA Cockpit2
1. Monitoring and Administration
2. Security
3. Performance Management
4. SAP HANA Options
In each application/tile, drill-down feature for more detail
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26. Monitoring and Administration (1)
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Hover and click on any
tile to drill down for
more detail
For MDC, the app will be
slightly different from
SYSTEMDB and Tenant DB

27. Monitoring and Administration (2)
From MDC’s SYSTEMDB
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28. Monitoring and Administration (3)
ALERT App – in the overview page, click on SHOW ALL
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SORT,
FILTERING
GO TO ALTER
CHECKER
CONFIGURATION

29. Monitoring and Administration(4)
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Click on an item to open the application
LCM – Similar to the one in HANA Studio

30. Administration - Configuring Alerts
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Tool to configure alerts - Previously in HANA Studio only

31. Administration – Workload and Performance
The following topics were partially covered in previous blog
HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features
• Workload Class / Management
• Monitor Performance
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32. Administration – Table Usage (access)
Display read/write statistics, with two types of charts
• Bubble Chart
• Table Chart
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33. Administration – SQL plan cache
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34. Administration – User management
• Tool to Edit, deactivate
or Delete a user
• Assign Roles
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35. Administration – Backup / Schedule
The backup/schedule tile of HANA2 cockpit has two features
• Create Backup within HANA cockpit  new feature
• Backup schedule Management  first introduced in HANA1 SPS12,
covered in the following blog
HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features
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See OSS note 2380291 for restrictions
on backup and recovery through HANA
Cockpit

36. Administration - Manage Services
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Tool to

37. Configuration Manager
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2. Comparing configuration change from previous snapshot
1. Configuring system environment/parameters
Creating a regular
snapshot for
comparison when
there are any
change

38. Life Cycle Management
• Tool to Add Host
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39. Database Explorer
• Tool to browse catalog and trace files
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40. Execute SQL
• Tool to run SQL against an schema object
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The tool checks the syntax while you are typing the SQL!

41. Analyze SQL (1)
SELECT * from SAPHNA.T005
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Tool to analyze SQL. See
next slide

42. Analyze SQL (2)
Note that the Analyze SQL in HANA Cockpit is different from
the HANA Studio’s EXPLAIN and Visualize Plan (below)
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43. HANA Cockpit for Offline Administration
Can be invoked through the online cockpit (under
Administration) or directly through the URLs below
http://host:1128/lmsl/hdbcockpit/SID/index.html
https://host:1129/lmsl/hdbcockpit/SID/index.html
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44. HANA Cockpit Offline Admin – Systems Operations
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Options

45. HANA Cockpit Offline Admin – Diagnosis Files
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Option to browse and download a trace file

46. HANA Cockpit Offline Admin – Troubleshooting
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Option to cancel a specific or ALL connection/transactions

47. Performance Management
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48. Performance Management – Workload Analysis 1
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Several KPIs
available for
analysis

49. Performance Management – Workload Analysis 2
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Application user, thread
type, state lock and more
service,
thread
type,
state lock,
and more
Several dimension, services
and KPIs to choose

50. Capture and Replay (1)
• This feature was initially presented in the following blog
HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features
New HANA2 options in Capture and Replay
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51. Capture and Replay (2)
Capturing workload from one system and replaying into
another system
1. In the source system,
capture the workload
2. Preprocess the capture work
3. Copy the captured workload from the source to target systems’ trace
folder
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52. Capture and Replay (3)
4. Login to the target system – the copied workload will be
visible
5. Replay the workload in the target system
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53. SAP HANA Options and Security
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54. • Any Questions?
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