SAP HANA Cockpit 2.0 – Installation and configuration

SAP HANA Cockpit is a Web-Based  tool for administration, monitoring and maintenance of SAP HANA systems.

Below we discuss installation steps and some key points with respect to cockpit:

1. Download the required SAP file from SAP Market Place.
2. Extract the SAR file and trigger installation using hdblcm.
   Note that installer installs a HANA instance (Express edition) of its own.
   More details here
3. Verify the details, enter the password and continue. Like any HANA installation user SYSTEM is created on the DB which will be used to login to Cockpit also.
   Along with SYSTEM, the other key user created is COCKPIT_ADMIN.
   Note that 51021 and 51023 are the default ports for Cockpit and Cockpit manager respectively.
4. First it is required to login to Cockpit manager to assign yourself required roles using user COCKPIT_ADMIN.
   
   
5. Now you are ready to login to the HANA Cockpit.
   
6. If you want to add additional users or resources (HANA systems) to cockpit, you can do so via SAP HANA Cockpit manager.
   
   

 

Important SAP Notes:

2496215 – You’re not authorized to open the SAP HANA Cockpit

2618617 – Launching SAP HANA Cockpit 2.5.5 in Firefox

2496215 – You’re not authorized to open the SAP HANA Cockpit

2185556 – FAQ: SAP HANA Cockpit

2595496 – Register a Resource in HANA Cockpit

2149157 – Unable to access the SAP HANA Cockpit due to error “Failure – Unable to load groups”.

 

R3trans and hdbuserstore

When you change the password of connecting user of SAP HANA database, same should be updated in the key file of the HDBUSERSTORE on the Application Server.

You should be logged in with <SIDADM> for this procedure.  Take care of this specially if you application server and database are running on same server.

#> hdbuserstore SET DEFAULT <hostname>:3<instance Number>15 <user> <password>

Note: User option -i along with the command if you want to enter the options (mainly password) interactively.

Example:

hdbuserstore SET DEFAULT hanahost:30015 SYSTEM Hana@123

Once updated check the list using the below command.

#> hdbuserstore list

DATA FILE : /home/appadm/.hdb/hanahost/SSFS_HDB.DAT
KEY FILE : /home/appadm/.hdb/hanahost/SSFS_HDB.KEY

KEY DEFAULT
ENV : HANAHOST:30015
USER: SYSTEM

You can now check the connectivity with the DATABASE using R3trans -d.

If R3trans -d reports error, check the connectivity with hdbsql using the key created above.

#> hdbsql -U <KEY>      #Key is “DEFAULT” in our example.

This should connect to the database without any issues.

You might receive error sql code  rcSQL = -10709 in case of connectivity issues. Please check the host name and port again in case of issues.

In case of any issues/questions please leave a comment below. Happy learning.

 

Important Notes:

2250144 – FAQ: SAP HANA Secure User Store

2563762 – hdbuserstore still using old hostname after updating

2399996 – How-To: Configuring automatic SAP HANA Cleanup with SAP HANACleaner

2653777 – Phyton connection to HANA database using hdbuserstore-key fails

2416706 – Check file permissions for SAP HANA client hdbuserstore on application server

2130496 – Application does not start after takeover-HANA Disaster Recovery

 

2709350 – How To set a HANA System License via HDBSQL