SAP NW Newbie

I have found that not many SAP admins notice that SAP system architecture resembles a star topology and that this was a conscious decision on SAP's part. If there is any confusion on realising this--the central services instance forms the central node of a star topology and the individual instances are the connected nodes. The biggest advantages of this topology are: 1. Central hub controls and communicates with rest of the nodes through client-server connectivity, keeping track of load levels, availability and non-duplication of changes. 2. The network connections grow linearly with the number of nodes added, as opposed to exponential growth with other topologies. This not only reduces cost, but also complexity. The major disadvantage is that the loss of the central node will cause the entire system to go down. This is where High Availability comes to play.

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HANA system triggers regular save points which are backed up in case of a database recovery. In order to recover the database at a point-in-time, logs must be recorded between the save points. If such recording in disabled (for example to prevent file system growth), the alert 'Check whether the database is running in log mode overwrite' is triggered. The log mode must be normal in a productive environment. To fix this alert, call HANA studio --> Configuration --> global.ini --> persistence and set the parameter log_mode to normal.

HANA database periodically keeps track of the column attributes loaded in to the memory during a normal operation. This information is stored as table preload information, which in turn is used to load the column attributes back after each restart of the index server. This results in improvement of query execution, but it also causes the memory usage to go up. Image: http://lunaticpoet.com/in-which-i-wish-i-had-a-pensieve/ Use the following procedure to reduce the memory usage: Deactivate the preload feature of the index server temporarily by setting the reload_tables parameter in the sql section to false Deactivate the collection of table preload information in the indexserver.ini file by adding the parameter tablepreload_write_interval in the persistence section and setting the value to 0 Restart SAP HANA Execute frequently used queries to load corresponding column table attributes into memory. Manually store the above information to be used for the next rest...

The log backup files grow fast in /usr/sap/<sid>/HDB<Instance Number>/backup/log if the frequency of the generation of log backup files is high. This frequency is controlled by the parameter log_backup_timeout_s . Change the parameter log_backup_timeout_s back to its default 900 from HANA Studio --> Configuration --> global.ini --> persistence --> log_backup_timeout_s --> 900

The standard deployment tool JSPM does not have an option to deploy a .ear file. The requirements to deploy ear files on SAP NetWeaver JAVA can be met using alternative tools: Using Telnet Call the telnet tool using the following command telnet localhost 5NN08 (Replace NN with the instance number. Example if your instance number is 00, the telnet port will be 50008) You will be prompted for username/password, logon with a J2EE admin user (ex: J2EE_ADMIN or Administrator) List down the server nodes using the following lsc Take note of a server node and jump to any server node using the following jump <server node> (Usually jump 0) Go to deploy application add deploy Deploy the ear file deploy <full path to ear file> on_deploy_error=stop You can also use guiconsole script located at /usr/sap/<SID>/J<nr>/j2ee/console. This script connects to telnet port and deploys the file. Using Deploy Script Change your directory to the location where dep...