Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is Getting Started with SAP HANA cockpit
and in this video, I will discuss documentation and training.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
As of SAP HANA cockpit 2.0 SP 04, cockpit has its own product page on the SAP Help Portal,
help.sap.com viewer product sap hana cockpit
If you search for HANA cockpit, the page will show up.
On this page, you will find a What’s New section, Installation, Administration, Training and Education,
and also a link to the SAP HANA Academy.
If we open the What’s New, you can see that cockpit is released in support packages (SP),
so not support package stacks (SPS) like HANA, and that sometimes the SP release is included
with a major HANA release, as was the case in SP 00, 02 and 03, and sometimes not,
as was the case with SP 01 and currently with SP 04.
To install SAP HANA cockpit, obviously, it is a good idea to consult the Installation and Update Guide.
We will look into installing cockpit in another video in this series but as this is the first video
it is maybe good idea to briefly address two points about the product.
First, we have a conceptual view, here is an illustration.
We can see that the SAP HANA cockpit is running on SAP HANA, express edition
and that it lives inside an XS Advanced container with two web interfaces or web applications:
cockpit and cockpit manager,
and a number of cockpit services - services, that run in the background.
Cockpit connects to the host agent present on any HANA system as the adm operating system user
or as a named database user using SQL.
As managed resource, the HANA system needs to be release 1.0 SPS 12 or later,
any HANA 2.0 version, that is.
If we then take a look at the deployment options, you can see that for production,
dedicated hardware is required, so cockpit running on its own server.
For non-production, if you want, you can also install cockpit on the same hardware as the HANA system.
That’s no problem.
Technically this works fine, but for production it is not supported.
Maybe I should also mention that, although cockpit is an XSA application, you cannot
install it on a regular HANA system.
Cockpit is a system by itself.
This is the biggest difference with cockpit 1.0 which was an XS classic application running
on the HANA server.
So cockpit is not an app, it is a system.
OK
Once you have installed cockpit, you can start to use it to manage HANA systems.
For this, the Administration Guide comes in handy.
Here it is documented, how to setup cockpit and how to perform standard database administration
tasks: performance monitoring, backup and recovery, security, create users and so on.
For training, there is an openSAP course: introduction to SAP HANA Administration: highly recommended.
This course focusses on cockpit.
The learning journey points the SAP HANA Administration curriculum from SAP Education,
so it is not specific to cockpit but to HANA administration in general.
Same for Additional information.
SAP HANA cockpit is the main administration tool for the SAP HANA platform, so you will
need to know a thing or two about the HANA platform as well, of course.
And finally, like I said, a link to the SAP HANA Academy.
OK.
Again, cockpit is not a product, like SAP Solution Manager, for example.
So you will not find an entry for SAP HANA cockpit on the Product Availability Matrix
(PAM), for example.
In the next video, I will show you where you can download the HANA cockpit so you can perform
your own installation.
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