Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA platform Installation and Update
and in this video, I will show you how to update the SAP HANA cockpit.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
Updating the SAP HANA cockpit is almost identical to installing SAP HANA cockpit and both are
easy activities to perform.
If you are completely new to the topic, you might want to take a look at the Getting Started
with SAP HANA cockpit video tutorial playlist.
In this series of videos, we tackle some of the concepts, where to download the software,
how to get it to the server, and so on.
There is also a blog on the topic with background information and references that you might find useful.
Assuming, then, we are all on the same page, let’s proceed.
I will be updating an SAP HANA cockpit 2.0 Support Pack 4 system to SP 5.
We have our files here in /tmp.
It is in the videos, but as a reminder, extract the downloaded SAR file with -manifest option
SIGNATURE.SMF, otherwise you will get errors during the installation.
Then to install or update, use the hdblcm.sh script
in the unlikely event, you have a graphical environment (X-Windows) installed, you can also use hdblcmgui.sh
same thing.
Please note that we are not executing the SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM)
directly for this task and we are also not using the lifecycle management tools like
hdbinst, hdbsetup, or hdbupd(ate).
You have to run the script, as it will do the necessary checks and housekeeping.
A previous version has been detected: H4C (HANA for Cockpit) which we can update
and we could also perform a brand new installation, of course.
Entering 1.
We are prompted to provide the password for the operating system administration account,
adm, here h4cadm, and if you don’t remember, you can easily reset the password as root
then the username for the database super user: SYSTEM.
I have left it at the default value.
the password
and the password the XS Advanced administration account: COCKPIT_ADMIN, in this case.
and that’s it.
Summary before execution screen.
Do you want to continue?
Yes.
Then, we have seen this before, I will go through it quickly.
files are extracted.
the database is stopped.
files are updated.
the SAP HANA XS Advanced runtime is installed.
database is started again and also the XS advanced runtime;
the Java and Node.js runtimes are updated.
services are updated.
HRTT - HANA runtime tools are updated.
XS Monitoring - the XS Advanced Administration tools
SAP UI5, latest version
and cockpit itself, of course.
Log files in /var/tmp, should any issue have occurred and you can send your feedback using the form.
So, how do we know what version we have got?
Easy
First, login: ‘xs l’ as COCKPIT_ADMIN
and then, with ‘xs mtas’ (MTAS) we can list all our multi-target applicationswhere
we can see the version installed.
With ‘xs version’ you can get additional information, the registered service URLs and
the HANA database version, for example.
‘xs a’, or ‘xs apps’, will print the list of applications with urls.
We can also do a quick check in the browser.
Paste in the URL for the XS Controller.
You should get you this pagewith the same registered service URLs
and we can connect, for example, to the XS Advanced Administration app
the Application Monitor tile will present us with the same list as the ‘xs’ apps command
and finally, we can connect to the SAP HANA cockpit manager
and from there connect to the SAP HANA cockpit.
Here, I only have the system database of HANA cockpit itself registered
you might have a couple of more systems
and here we can get our system overview.
That’s really all there is to it.
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