Welcome to this series of hands on tutorials from the SAP HANA Academy
I'm Philip Mugglestone
in this series. We're covering the SAP Business Technology Platform
in this video tutorial we're going to have a look at a global account.
Now once you've got access to a global
account you should have URL that you're going to
use to access it and it will probably look
something like this be https and then cockpit dot
and then for example eu10 dot HANA dot on demand dot com.
So what you'll need to do is enter that URL
and then you'll be prompted to log in so
you use the email that's been registered so let's continue
and then of course you'll need to put in your password
now the very first time
you may get prompted if you've got more than one global account available,
which global account you actually want to use the cockpit with
that's perfectly valid that you could have
access to multiple global accounts for example,
you might have different ones for different licensing models
and if you want you can remember that selection for next time.
So now we can see the account.
Explorer of the SAP BTP cockpit we can see this is our global account,
we can see our sub domain basically we see what sub accounts we've got.
We've got other options here.
This is a new vanilla account.
So there's actually nothing in here just as it would be as created.
So we're really going to be starting from scratch.
Now the first thing to do is just check which feature set you're using
now these days it should be feature set B
but if you go to your user name and choose about then you should
get the cloud management tools and it should say feature set A or B.
B basically means you've got the ability to create directors.
You can see here we've gotten directors in the menu.
Feature set A is a little older,
it doesn't have quite the same capabilities but normally all
feature set A have been migrated to future set B.
So this is what you'll be used to using going forward.
So the first thing we might look at is security because
we've got this new vanilla account but if we look at
security must find that there's at least one user and typically
it's going to be us were the very first user.
So basically we're set up as this email and then if we look at that user,
let's select it.
You'll see that we've got a role collections
assigned and it's the global account administrator.
So you're gonna need to have at least one of those.
Typically it might be you if the account's been set up for you,
um and then you can create other global
account administrators as you like from that.
The other thing to look at is very important is the entitlements.
So if we go down here and look at the service assignments,
these are the services that are available to us within this global account.
So you see it's quite a lot of them now of
course these are all mapped onto
different potential regions infrastructure providers,
what we'll need to do later when we create sub accounts and
want to actually in stand she
ate these services for example the SAP BTP, ABAP environment
it's actually go ahead and assign quotas for
these entitlements within the relevant sub accounts.
Now,
if you need to use a service and it's not actually on
this list then that's something that's done at the global account level.
If you are a partner for example, that's something that can be done through
edge portal.
Now it may well be that you want to
access different line of business systems to build extensions.
Now to do that
something we can make use of is the system landscape.
What you can do is actually set up access to systems
and if you choose add system
we can pick from this list of systems.
Now,
what this will allow us to do is what
we can call an automated connection to the system.
However, you can also connect to systems manually as well if you want.
We've got lots of examples of that in other video tutorials.
Now, once you've created systems
then you may also want to set up formations
and basically a formation
is a group or a selection of different systems that you've set up
and you you basically make it available to a given sub account.
We don't actually have any sub accounts yet so we can't create a formation but
what it means is if you've got maybe three different LoB systems,
you want to make available for a certain project.
You can make a formation for that and access them very easily from that sub account
and that people in that sub account are not going to be prompted with systems
that are really not relevant to them because they're not part of that project.
So formations allow you to group different systems together
and assign that grouping to a sub account.
Now,
if you want to see some examples of how you might do that then
if you go to the SAP HANA Academy and we look at the Extension Suite,
you'll see,
we've got for example a series on building extensions for
SAP SuccessFactors using API S or SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP Commerce Cloud.
These series will actually show you in detail how
you actually configure things such as the system landscape
now it might be that some services you want to use are actually available directly
from infrastructure providers like AWS or as you're
a good example of that would be PostgreSQL
to do that. What you can do is set up a resource provider at your global account level.
So we can say new provider
and at this time the two options are Amazon Web Services
it basically allows you to connect your global
account with your Amazon Web Services or your as your account
now, there are other things that you can do.
We've got usage analytics here,
so if you want to see what you've actually
been doing in a specific global account over time,
what services you've been using etcetera, how much you've been paying,
then you get lots of analytics through this tap and something
we'll be seeing much more of later is the boosters option.
Now boosters is a really nice way for you to get started in terms of configuring
your global account and creating sub accounts and
actually setting entitlements and instantiating services.
For example if you actually want to get started setting up an account to do
add up in the cloud using SAP BTP, ABAP environment then you can see if you come here,
it's gonna require a number of different components.
The SAP BTP, ABAP environment it's gonna need,
it's gonna use the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime,
then subscribe to these different services,
then what you can do is come and use this booster
and you can actually check that you've got all of the different
entitlements available in your global account.
If it is red and it says it's not allowed
then you'll get some details on why
and then what it will also do
is allow you to choose how you want to set up the quotas,
how much quota to assign for a given service,
set up some details of the sub account,
it will create using which infrastructure provider and region etcetera
and then it will actually go ahead
and create the whole thing for you.
It will even configure specific administrator and developer users for you.
So the boosters are very, very powerful, they're very flexible.
They allow you to do a whole load of steps in one kind of go
used to be called recipes. Now it's known as a booster
and the actual boosters that are available. This list is changing all the time.
So there are more and more boosters being made available.
So we'll see some of these in upcoming video tutorials.
So in this video tutorial we've had a look at the cockpit for our global account.
We've seen the account explorer where we can manage our directories and
sub accounts including how we can create a sub account or directory.
We've then got our resource providers for
working with AWS and Azure infrastructure directly.
We've got the boosters, we've just seen got the system landscapes with formations,
we've got the entitlements
and we've also seen where we can set up security at the global account level.
So for example, setting up a global account administrators
and we've seen the usage analytics
now if you want more help and support. We've got links for that
and also in the useful links for example, we saw this in the previous video tutorial,
you can access the tools and again we'll
see some of that in upcoming video tutorials.
So that's our look at global accounts,
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