The document discusses new features in SAP HANA SPS 11 for SAP DB Control Center (DCC), including a setup wizard to simplify DCC configuration, an API to automatically register databases, the ability to store historical alerts, and a configuration manager to compare settings across systems. Key benefits are reducing setup steps by 80%, automatically adding databases, enabling long-term alert storage and analysis, and detecting configuration variances.

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SAP HANA SPS 11 - What’s New?
SAP DB Control Center
SAP HANA Product Management December, 2015
(Delta from SPS 10 to SPS 11)

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Agenda
DCC setup wizard and application
Automatic system registration API
Historical alerts
Configuration Manager

3. DCC setup wizard and
application

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DCC setup wizard and application
Feature description:
 New “SAP DCC Setup” tile in Launchpad to modify all DCC settings
– Wizard automatically invoked when opening the DCC setup tile for the first time
– Subsequent launches invoke set up application instead
 Takes care of setting up both required and optional DCC settings
Benefits:
 Significantly reduces number of setup steps by 80%
 Minimizes setup errors resulting in a non-operational DCC system
 Eliminates need to execute SQL commands to alter optional DCC settings
 Allows changes to DCC settings via the DCC Launchpad (as opposed to SAP HANA Studio)

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DCC setup wizard

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DCC setup application

7. Automatic system registration
API

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Automatic system registration API
Feature description:
 REST API for direct registration of external systems into DCC
 Bypasses the normal registration or import procedure in the user interface
 Invoked via http[s]://host:port/sap/hana/dbcc/api/HANARegister.xsjs
 Returns JSON formatted OData entity representing the newly registered system or an error text
Benefits:
 Automatically register databases into a global DCC system
 Allows cloud providers to automatically add newly provisioned databases into a DCC system operated by the
same user or team

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Automatic system registration API
HTTP POST example from JavaScript:
var url = http://dccserver.myorg.com:4301:/sap/hana/dbcc/api/HANARegister.xsjs;
var data = {
host : "hanaserver2.myorg.com",
port : 4300,
username : "SAPDBCC",
password : "Abcd1234",
resource : "HA1"
};
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: url,
contentType: 'application/json',
dataType : 'json',
data: JSON.stringify(data),
success: onSuccess,
error: onError,
beforeSend : function (xhr) {
xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + btoa("DCC_ADM:Abcd1234"));
}
});

10. Historical alerts

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Historical alerts
Feature description:
 Collection and persistence of alert history from all registered systems
 Recording of when alert was fired, its status and when it was resolved
Benefits:
 Enables central and long-term storage of alerts
 Provides ability to generate reports and analysis of historical alerts

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Historical alerts

13. Configuration Manager

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Configuration Manager
Feature description:
 New “Configuration Manager” tile in Launchpad
 View configuration parameters for a specific system
 Compare configuration parameters between systems
 Create snapshots of configuration parameters at any point in time
 Compare current configuration parameters with a saved snapshot
 Compare two different snapshots
Benefits:
 Detect configuration variances across multiple systems
 Keep configuration versions of a system
 Provide historical context to other historical data captured by DCC

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Viewing current configuration parameters

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Comparing configuration parameters

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Comparing snapshots of configuration parameters

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Contact information
José Ramos
SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com