Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA Administration and in this video
we will discuss SAP HANA versions.
This video has been recorded on release SAP HANA platform 2.0 SPS 03 from April 2018 and
SAP HANA cockpit 2.0 SP08 from October 2018.
For earlier or later releases, please check the playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
I am connected here to the SAP HANA cockpit, connected to a tenant database, HA0, and we
are looking at System Overview.
On the Overview page, by default I should say because the page is editable, we find
this tile: General Information, and General Information shows us the SAP HANA version,
the time stamp of the latest update and the platform.
Well, we are on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1 and our HANA version is 2.0, 34 and 34
stands for the revision.
We can select the tile and this will open the General Information page, which will give
us some more details.
System Usage
Startup time stamp for this system.
Distributed or not: multiple-host
Again the version, this time labeled hana 2 sp 03.
The built time, Linux Kernel version and the hardware manufacturer, VMware, in our case.
In fact, our system is running in the cloud some place.
Version History shows us the previous installations.
This system was installed with revision 32 in August and later, in October, updated to
revision 34.
Installed Plugins Details would show whether the Application Function Library AFL has been
installed, for example, or the EPM-MDS.
Lateral navigation from General Information shows us Manage System Licenses, which opens
SAP HANA Licensing.
The license specifies the amount of memory and, by default, will not be enforced although
you can enable this.
None of the functionality, or capabilities as it is sometimes called, are controlled
by the license.
If you are interested in this topic, I have posted a blog about the different editions
and options.
I will put the link, the URL, in the description of this video (below).
Now, there are some other views or apps, which also provide system information.
If we go back two steps and open Monitor Performance, we can see this tiny little information icon
here on the top header —if we go to Workload Analysis, we get it also— and this opens
System Information in an overlay.
This returns some more information, about the operating system, the build (in particular),
and CPU, Memory, and Network information.
This type of information is typically for support purposes.
This is all information about the HANA System we are connected to.
Should you want to know what version of HANA cockpit you are using, you need to open, what’s
called, the Me area, and click about.
Cockpit version 2.8 patch 8 Database Explorer 2.7, SAPUI5.
If we return to Overview, and open SQL Console, we the see the version in the header.
You can click it for an About.
Database Explorer
In Cockpit Manager, you need to click on the User, About
One more.
Let’s switch to our system database and stop our system.
OK
Fast forward.
Stopping
Stopped
We can no longer click the General Information tile.
Well, we can click but nothing will happen.
If you want to know more about the system when it is not running, you need to ask the
SAP host agent, and this is what the Platform Lifecycle Management tool will do.
Click View system information, the icon indicates that we are going to an external resource.
Now, on my training system, the URL only contains the hostname, not domain, so this is not resolved
and I have not properly configured my system with a valid certificate for HTTPS, so this
will not work and that’s a good thing.
However, by specifying HTTP and port 1128, we can connect to the Host Agent.
Don’t ever do this in real-life of course, as passwords will now go unencrypted over
the network, not a good idea,
Here we need to provide the operating system administration account of SAP HANA, the software
owner, so to speak, SID+adm, ha0adm in my case, all lowercase, and there is an SAP Note,
should you have issue connecting to the SAP HANA platform lifecycle management tools.
Here we our system information.
We can see the version in the header, the SID, instance number.
We have the system landscape directory data, should this have been configured, this is
for use with SAP Solution Manager, and you can set this up using the Configure SLD menu
here on the toolbar below.
Host Information and Installed Components, provide some version information as well.
OK — for some backgrounds about the version, I would recommend the Product Availability
Matrix, which you can access from the SAP Support Portal.
This is the PAM for HANA 2.0; for HANA 1.0, use the other link, and on the Support Package
Stacks tab, we can see the available SPS’s, 03 from April 2018 being the latest at the
time of the recording for on-premise with the release data and the release note.
For the revisions, I can recommend article 23 78 962 SAP HANA 2.0 Revision and Maintenance
Strategy.
Here we can find the release note for each revision in RTC and also links to documentation
about the release strategy
OK —That’s it.
SAP HANA Version.
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