hello and welcome to the SP Hana Academy the topic of this video tutorial series
is it behind a platform installation and update and in this video we will discuss
the SP Hana platform lifecycle management tools hi I'm Dennis van
Campen and the SP HANA platform a single tool is used to install update
and configure as a pianist systems the SP and a database lifecycle manager or
HTTP LCM in short the tool has not evolved a lot over the last releases
which in my view is a good thing it does what it needs to do and in doing so
there's a pretty good job we can interact with HTTP LCM on the command
line to automate installations using a graphical user interface for one-off
activities or from the web let's start with the last one
do you RL to connect to the platform lifecycle management tool is HTTP on
portal Evan 28 or HTTP on port 1129 then L M s L lifecycle management software
logistics slash in uppercase H DB l cm / the S ID of your system here I'm using
HTTP slash index dot HTML alternatively if you have registered the system as a
resource for Hana cockpit you can access a lifecycle management from the database
overview page there's a link for each tile and when you select it the
corresponding tool or functionality is started also you can access lifecycle
management from ana studio they all access the same URL using the same
credentials the operating system administration account as ID ADM port 11
28 and 29 are from the SP host agent not from the SP hana web dispatcher
and the host agent gets installed automatically when you install the SP
HANA server all the tiles that we see here then correspond to post
installation configuration tasks we can view system information host information
and add or remove hosts in case we are connected to a distributed system
installed components and add or remove components for example access advanced
or the application function library for predictive and we find the same tiles
here on the home page install our add components add or remove hosts or Astros
uninstall update the system or configure the system landscape directory
registration if we now switch to the graphical version you can see that we
get the same functionality at house pros at hosts configure system landscape
directory and install or update components with dimension that we need
to run the tool as routes to select one of the disabled actions rename an
install or unregister and this is how lifecycle management looks like when
executed is rich again same functionality as with the web interface
these are all post configuration tasks by the way I'm using xming here together
with X Window forwarding of my putti terminal to display graphical x windows
applications on a Microsoft Windows computer alternatively I could have used
VNC or some other remote desktop display technology to get a graphical
environment however most often the Hana server will be a minimal install
hardened for security with no fancy windows so you will not be able to run
the Windows version so most often my guess we will be using
the command line and again we see the same actions listed what we have seen so
far is what is called the resident lifecycle manager and it's installed
together with the server just like the host agent you use it to update the
system and components or uninstall it's located on the shared mount point air
slash enter slash shared and then under the S ID and HTTP LCM directory the fact
that it's installed together with the server also guarantees compatibility
it's always the same version but what if you want to install a new system for
this you use the lifecycle manager that's included with the installation
media same name HTTP LCM this time we use the tool to either install a new
system or update an existing one when updating you typically use the installer
from the installation media and not the resident version as you want to use the
most recent version of HTTP LCM again there's a graphical version as well that
is exactly the same thing there will be videos showing you how to perform these
tasks step for step here I'm just providing an overview both the command
line and Windows versions except call options parameters if we run the command
with dash dash H we get the help there's an option to dump a configuration file
template this allows you to automate installations run them in batch mode for
more help on the topic enter help + action equals install for example and
this will return all the parameters that you can pass to the Installer
most of them will be in the configuration template file as well
there's a dedicated video tutorial about installation automation you will find
all these parameters listed in the SP Hana platform server installation and up
they've got as well of course before we wrap up one word of warning here we're
looking at the installation media FSP Hana to SPS to the full download the DVD
so to speak if we look at the client for Windows for example you can see that
there is no lifecycle manager included just HTTP instrument line and HDB setup
graphical however we find the same HTTP inst and HTV setup programs when we look
into the Linux clients or the email AFL components if you are performing an
installation and the Hana server always use the lifecycle manager to install not
the H to be in store HTTP setup tools they will be used by lifecycle manager
but is part of a complete lifecycle management process managing dependencies
and so on and the lifecycle manager is always included on the installation
media here we have it it should be LCM Linux okay that's it so we have a single
tool for all your SP Hana platform lifecycle management tasks and that tool
is HTTP LCM for installation and update use the one that comes with the
installation media for post installation configuration tasks use the resident
version that was installed together with the server command line Windows or web
whatever you prefer this to be on a platform lifecycle manager and the
installation parameters are documented in the server installation and update
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