Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA Cockpit and in this video we will
discuss a new feature in the Cockpit Manager, Active Sessions, which allows an administrator
to monitor browser sessions and send pop-up notifications to logged-in cockpit users.
This video has been recorded on SAP HANA cockpit 2.0 SP 07 from August 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 Manager.
I am an administrator (you need to be cockpit admin or cockpit user admin), and as of SP
07, we have a new menu item here: Active Sessions.
We can see that we currently have 3 sessions active.
If we select the category, Active Sessions opens and here we can see which cockpit users
are currently connected, the response time (latency) in milliseconds; this should be
below a 100-150 ms, and the location, the area where the user is currently working in,
for example, the resource directory, or system overview.
You will need to familiarize yourself a bit with the URLs, maybe they will get translated
to the actual name of the view in some future version.
OK —Then we have two options for interaction.
We can inform, and we can interrupt.
As we can see, with Inform Users, the text will display for 5 seconds, then disappear.
So, I could, for example, inform the currently connected cockpit users that the All Hands
call is today at 4pm, but, as you will see, if we switch screens, and I have to do this
quickly, the message is gone before you know it.
So, you would only use this for messages that are purely informational, that do not need
any acknowledgement.
You cannot be sure that information will be read.
If this is not what you want, you can use Interrupt User and then we have two message
types: information and warning.
OK —Let’s use Information first.
Enter a Title and a Message and select the Button Text.
We are informed that three active sessions have been interrupted and now, if we switched
screens, we can see that the work screen now has an overlay, it is obscured, and there
is a pop-up with a title, a text, and a Close button.
This pop-up will stay on the screen until it is acknowledged, so we can be sure that
the message is read even if the user just left her computer to grab a cup of tea.
OK —Close
Now, with warning, we achieve pretty much the same result.
Let’s change the button to OK.
Three active sessions have been interrupted.
And now we get a message with an Alert formatting, there is an exclamation mark, there is an
orange bar, so this is likely to attract a bit more attention.
OK —Back to the cockpit manager.
That’s it for Active Sessions.
Sending User Notifications and Monitoring Sessions is documented in the SAP HANA Administration
with SAP HANA Cockpit Guide, which you can view or download, free of charge, from the
SAP Help Portal on help.sap.com.
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