Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA Cockpit, What’s New?
And in this video we will show you some of the new navigation features.
This video has been recorded for release SAP HANA cockpit 2.0 SP 08 from October 2018.
For earlier or later releases, please check the playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In several places navigation has been improved, to make it easier for you and save time when
working with cockpit.
Let’s start with Cockpit Manager.
This is where we control the metadata for cockpit, where we register our resources,
bundle them in groups, create cockpit users with the appropriate privileges, assign them
to groups, and so on.
To go to the Cockpit from here, there has been this link on the toolbar below — and
this will take us to the Landscape overview page.
Fair enough.
Similarly, there is a tile on the Cockpit Home page, which opens Cockpit Manager for us
What’s new, now in SP08, is that when go to our Resources, we can now directly go to
the System Overview page for that particular resource, saves you a few clicks, and, if
we go back Home, and open the Resource Directory, which this time only list the resources your
user has been granted access to, so not necessarily all registered resources,
Then, from here, we will also find a link here to Cockpit Manager, Register Resources,
which brings us back where we started.
To change the password for a cockpit user, as cockpit manager, we would go to Cockpit
Users, Edit.
However, when we are connected to the Cockpit, there was no self-service for password change.
This has been added.
Just go to the Me area, Settings, User, Change Password.
You may have noticed that the Me area now also includes Recent Activity and Frequently Used.
This could be useful for quick navigation as well.
Should you prefer not to be tracked, User Activities can be switched off and you can
clear your history if privacy matters.
One of my favorites for SP08, is what we can call, I guess, lateral navigation.
So, in stead of navigating into a particular area, then going back home again, and navigate
to the next app, we can now go directly from any app to any related app.
Let’s take Capture Workload, for example.
Captures require a backup, so let’s switch that on.
Start Capture.
We can now, go directly from the Capture Monitor to Capture Management, but also to Backup,
if we like to see the current status.
Status Succesfull.
Select Backup.
Now we get related apps for Backup, Alerts, Backup Configuration, and Data Encryption,
plus the navigation path.
So, let’s return to System Overview and stop our Capture, and from here we could directly
go to Workload Analysis or Replay Management, very convenient.
OK —Another important feature concerns APCA (availability, performance, capacity, and
alerts) for data collection.
Previously, this was one size fits all.
Configurable here, through Settings.
Collection frequency for system status and alert counts, and for resource and feature data.
Now, as of SP08, when we register a resource, or edit one, we can define, for this particular
database alternative settings.
So, either use the Global Settings, or use Resource Override, and this includes EarlyWatch data.
This enables differentiation between production and test, or demo systems.
OK - So much for the navigation enhancements of SP08.
You can find them documented in the What’s New for SAP HANA Cockpit, on the SAP Help Portal.
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