2 About the SAP HANA Cockpit
SAP HANA cockpit is the main administration tool for SAP HANA.
The SAP HANA cockpit provides tools for the administration and monitoring of SAP HANA databases
(databases), and for development capabilities through the SAP HANA database explorer. You can manage
multiple databases, each running version SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12, or later. databases running version SAP HANA
2.0 SPS 01 or later run in multi-container mode, but you can also monitor single-container systems running
earlier versions of SAP HANA.
Note
While the cockpit was an integral part of earlier versions of SAP HANA, the new SAP HANA cockpit for
SAP HANA 2.0 is installed separately. This provides more exibility, as it allows you to manage more than
one SAP HANA system in a single administration environment. SAP HANA cockpit runs on an SAP HANA
Express database, which is included in the installation. The SAP HANA cockpit can also be installed in an
existing SAP HANA system in a separate tenant database (shared database).
The SAP HANA cockpit provides aggregate, system and database administration features, for example,
database monitoring, user management, and data backup. Administrators can use the SAP HANA cockpit
to start and stop services, to monitor the system, to congure system settings, and to manage users and
authorizations. Cockpit pages that allow you to manage separately-installed contexts (for example, SAP HANA
dynamic tiering) are only available if they are installed.
Through the Cockpit Manager, you, as the cockpit administrator, need to register resources and create groups
of resources that other cockpit users will be able to access with SAP HANA cockpit. A resource is an SAP HANA
system, identied by a host and instance number. Suppose that a business unit has set up a new SAP HANA
system and wants it to be managed through the cockpit. The rst step is to register the SAP HANA system, or
resource, in the cockpit.
Initially, the SAP HANA cockpit displays data at a landscape or enterprise level. You can quickly drill down to an
overview of an individual resource. Links, data, cards, and dierent parts of a single tile are drillable, providing
access to more detailed information and functions.
Integrated into the cockpit is the SAP HANA database explorer. The database explorer provides the ability to
query information about the database using SQL statements, as well as the ability to view information about
your database's catalog objects.
The connectivity between SAP HANA cockpit and managed resources includes:
• SAP HANA SQL port (3xx13, 3xx15, …)
• sapstartsrv (5xx13, 5xx14)
• SDS (3xx26)
• saphostagent (1129)
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