SAP HANA SPS 08 - Whats New?

Administration & Monitoring

(Delta from SPS 07 to SPS 08)
SAP HANA Product Management

May, 2014

Content
This presentation provides an overview of the changes regarding administration, monitoring and
supportability of the SAP HANA database between the SPS 07 version and the SPS 08 version.
It covers changes to the SAP HANA studio administration perspective and changes to the SAP HANA
database.

Functionality of other SAP HANA studio perspectives (like the SAP HANA Modeler) is not covered in
this presentation.

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Agenda
Improved Monitoring and Supportability
New monitoring overview: SAPUI5 based dashboard
Improved diagnosis information for blocking situations

New options to collect diagnosis information

Improved resource monitoring
Improved statement analysis
More safety for production systems: warnings are displayed, when data is to be changed

Improved usability
Statistics service enhancements
SLD extension

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Additional Features
Support for planning engine views/models
Import of geospatial information (shapefiles)

Extended system replication configuration

New/enhanced monitoring views

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

New Monitoring Dashboard
New SAPUI5 Based Monitoring Dashboard
Web-browser-based dashboard that visualizes key
aspects of system health and configuration, for example:
Current high and medium priority alerts
Memory and CPU usage
Availability of data backups
Drill down to views containing more detailed information
Role sap.hana.admin.roles::Monitoring is required, which
is not granted by default to the standard MONITORING
role

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Diagnosis Information for Blocking Situations
Emergency Support Mode
SAP HANA studio collects
information about systems using SQL
When a system cannot be reached
by SQL or it is experiencing major
performance issues due to high load
or blocking situations, information
can instead be collected using the
connection of the SAP start service
(sapstartsrv).
The Administration editor diagnosis mode provides access to:
The operational status of all services in the system
Log and trace files
The collection of diagnosis information into a zip file
All connections, transactions, blocked transactions, and threads in the system
If necessary, you can cancel individual connections and transactions, or even
cancel all transactions.
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Improved Diagnosis Information for Blocking Situations
Improved Information for Cancel Status
System view M_CONNECTIONS, column CONNECTION_STATUS shows if the cancellation of a connection has been
requested and if the cancellation is already ongoing.
The following values are possible:
IDLE (CANCEL REQUESTED)
The connection is idle, a cancellation has been requested, but the connection is not yet canceling
RUNNING (CANCEL REQUESTED)
The connection is working on a request, a cancellation has been requested, but the connection is not yet canceling (meaning
not in rollback yet)
RUNNING (CANCELING)
The connection is working on a request, a cancellation has been requested, and the connection is already canceling
(meaning already in rollback)

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Diagnosis Information for Blocking Situations

Runtime Environment Dump File Collection

To analyze issues e.g. if the system is unresponsive, RTE dump files can
be created
On the Diagnosis Files tab, choose Diagnosis Information -> Collect
You can specify:
From which index server(s) RTE dump files are to be collected
The number of RTE dump file sets to be collected
The interval (in minutes) at which RTE dump files are to be collected
For each specified index server, an RTE dump file containing information
about threads, stack contexts, and so on is created and stored in the file
indexserver_<SAPLOCALHOST>_<PORT>_runtimedump.trc.

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Enhanced Diagnosis Information Collection

New Options to Collect Diagnosis Information

For the collection of all diagnosis information, it is now possible to
enter a specific time period, by default the last 7 days.
Information from system views can be included when the database
is online (this option is not available in diagnosis mode).
Monitoring views for the planning engine are then included as well.

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Resource Monitoring
Redesigned Memory
Allocation Statistics
Components shown in
Memory Allocation Statistics
now have more
comprehensible names
Allocator section has been
renamed to Subcomponents
and now also includes row
store information
Subcomponents are now
grouped and displayed in a
collapsible tree view

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Resource Monitoring
Statement Memory Tracking and Statement Memory Limitation:
Avoid Uncontrolled Statement Memory Allocation
The peak memory consumption of a statement can be tracked und displayed in Expensive Statements.
Resource consumption collection has to be enabled manually:
Configuration file global.ini, parameters enable_tracking and memory_tracking
Additionally the HANA administrator is able to define a global statement memory limit in the database:
Configuration file global.ini, parameter statement_memory_limit
If a statement exceeds the memory limit, it will be cancelled

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Resource Monitoring
Enhanced Lock Classification
Locks are classified by component
Monitoring views M_SERVICE_THREADS and M_SERVICE_THREAD_SAMPLES contain this component in column
LOCK_WAIT_COMPONENT to provide a hint on the purpose of the lock blocking the current thread.
Column Lock Wait Component can also be displayed on Performance tab -> Threads
Examples are:
Network IO
File IO
Basis System
Calculation Engine
Join Engine

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Statement Analysis
Extended Content of Plan Visualizer
For column store queries, the visualization of physical
table access plan is now completed
This includes the display of inverted index access
and predicate evaluation

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Improved Statement Analysis
Operator List for Plan Visualizer
The Operator List lists detailed characteristics of all operators within a current plan (visualized + executed).
It can be used to dynamically explore the operator set along user defined filters in order to pinpoint specific operators of
interest.
For example you might:
Filter all operators
consuming a certain
minimal CPU time
Then order those
operators along the
number of input rows
Further restrict the filter
to a specific operator
type (e.g. "Column
Search)
And then double-click on an operator of interest in order to check its positioning within a visualized plan

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Statement Analysis
Plan Cache: Keep Set of Parameters
The parameter set of a prepared statement is stored in monitoring view M_SQL_PLAN_CACHE_PARAMETERS to allow for
the easy re-execution of a specific query:
First parameter set is stored when the total execution time of the statement is greater than parameter
plan_cache_parameter_sum_threshold (default 1000ms).
Afterwards, the parameter values will be updated if the statements single execution time is greater than parameter
plan_cache_parameter_threshold (default 100ms) and its last captured execution time.
Parameters to enable this feature:
plan_cache_parameter_enabled: Activate/deactivate
capture of parameter values of prepared statements
plan_cache_parameter_for_lob_enabled: Activate/
deactivate capture of BLOB/CLOB/NCLOB
parameter values.
In the Admin editor of SAP HANA Studio on tab
Performance -> SQL Plan Cache the stored parameter
set is used when you choose Visualize Plan or
Prepare in SQL Console
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Improved Statement Analysis
Direct Access to Plan Visualizer
It is now possible to display the visualized plan for a specific statement in the Expensive Statements Trace or SQL Plan Cache
view

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Improved Statement Analysis
Link Between SQL Plan Cache and Expensive Statements Trace
Navigation between the Expensive Statements Trace and the SQL Plan Cache view has been improved
You can display a specific statement in the other view using the context menu option Navigate To

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

System Usage Type
Display of System Usage Type
You can configure the usage type of an
SAP HANA system (for example,
production, development) during
installation with the system_usage
parameter or later by changing the system properties.
SAP HANA studio evaluates this parameter to warn users when they
are about to perform critical operations on systems with usage type
production (for example, execute SQL statements, stop or restart the
system, perform a data backup, and so on)
This does not prevent data manipulation in productive systems,
however it keeps reminding you to be careful

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Usability
User-Defined SQL Statements for System Monitoring
For customized monitoring, it is possible to save
your own SQL statements on the System Information
tab of the Administration editor for convenient
repeated execution.
You can create and save individual statements
directly on the System Information tab.
Alternatively, you can import multiple statements as
text or ZIP archive files
To organize large numbers of statements
meaningfully, you can define a folder structure.
Predefined statements are stored in the System
folder.
When you save the Administration editor, all
statements, together with the defined folder structure,
are saved to a single XML file and are available on
the System Information tab of the Administration
editor for all systems registered in the SAP HANA studio.
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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Usability
Reworked Systems View Context Menu
The Systems View context menu has been re-structured by categories to provide a better overview and easy access to all
actions for the user.
Old structure:
New structure:

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Improved Usability
Command Line Parameters for SAP HANA Studio
The SAP HANA studio program accepts command line parameters that allow you to specify the system to be connected to
immediately on startup.
Call the SAP HANA studio executable with parameters for host, instance number and user:
dbstudio.exe -h <host> -n <instance number> -u <username>
This can be useful to system administrators, as well as to other programs that call the SAP HANA studio, as this allows such
programs to pass connection information to the studio.

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Statistics Service
Improved Documentation
All statistics service views are now commented in the catalog, check the view definition to see the comments

New Alerts

Expiration of database user passwords: checks if any password expires soon

Total memory usage of row store: determines the current memory size of the row store per host
Table growth of row store tables: determines the growth rate of row store tables
Row store fragmentation: check for fragmentation of row store
Inconsistencies in schemas: check for schema inconsistencies
Runtime of log backups currently running: determines if the most recent log backup terminates in the given time.
Enablement of automatic log backups: determines whether automatic log backup is enabled.
Storage snapshot is prepared: determines if the period, during which the database is prepared for a storage snapshot,
exceeds a given threshold.
Total memory usage of table-based audit log: determines which percentage of the effective allocation limit is being
consumed by the database table used for table-based audit logging.
Granting of SAP_INTERNAL_HANA_SUPPORT_ROLE: determines if the internal support role
(SAP_INTERNAL_HANA_SUPPORT) is currently granted to any database users. The administrator should check if the
corresponding users still need the role.
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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Solution Manager Integration
SLD Extension
A new (optional) software component can now be registered to SLD using the SAP HANA SLD Data Supplier: SAP HANA
Smart Data Access.
The AFL package has been split into several packages. Therefore the AFL reporting for SLD has been adapted as well.

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Additional Features

Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Additional Features
Support for Planning Engine
EPM models and EPM query sources are shown
in the Systems view in the catalog tree.
If needed for support reasons, a planning engine
trace can be activated. If parameter
enable_export_wizard in section planningengine
of file indexserver.ini is set to true, the
Planning Engine Trace section is available on
the Trace Configuration tab.

Monitoring views for planning engine are contained

in the diagnosis information collection.

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Additional Features
Import of Geospatial Information
(shapefiles)
SAP HANA supports the ESRI shapefile format. ESRI
shapefiles are used to store geometry data and attribute
information for the spatial features in a data set.
You can import ESRI shapefiles into dedicated columnstore tables using the import feature of SAP HANA studio:
From the main menu, choose File -> Import.
Select import source SAP HANA -> ESRI Shapefiles.
The shapefiles are imported into column-store tables in
the specified schema.
Each shapefile corresponds to one table.

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Additional Features
Extended system replication configuration
To offer higher levels of availability you can link
together multiple systems in a multitier system
replication landscape.
After setting up a basic system replication
scenario you add a third system to provide
another level of redundancy.
In a multitier setup the primary system is
always on tier 1, a tier 2 secondary has a
primary system as its replication source and
a tier 3 secondary has the tier 2 secondary as
its replication source.
The tier 3 secondary can now also be added
using SAP HANA studio.
On each node only those actions are provided,
which are currently possible depending on the
system status.

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Improved Monitoring and Supportability

Additional Features
Enhancements regarding monitoring views
New monitoring view M_CS_LOADS shows when which column of a column store table has been loaded into memory
New monitoring view M_MVCC_OVERVIEW provides information about the row store multi-version concurrency control
(MVCC) manager
New monitoring view M_TABLE_SNAPSHOTS provides information about tables which are blocked by table-wise garbage
collection
Monitoring view M_TRANSACTIONS column ACQUIRED_LOCK_COUNT now also contains statistics for column store
System views can now be exported in CSV format

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How to find SAP HANA documentation on this topic?

In addition to this learning material, you find SAP HANA documentation on

SAP Help Portal knowledge center at http://help.sap.com/hana_platform.
The knowledge center is structured according to the product lifecycle: installation, security, administration,
development. So you can find e.g. the SAP HANA Server Administration Guide
in the Administration section and so forth

SAP HANA Platform SPS

Whats New Release Notes
Installation

SAP HANA Server Installation Guide

Security
Administration

SAP HANA Administration Guide

Development

SAP HANA Developer Guide

References

SAP HANA SQL Reference

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Thank you
Contact information
Melanie Handreck
SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com
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