SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) – SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Persistence Instance (Part 2)

While Part 1 of this sequence provided an introduction to the SAP ASE Persistence (DBaaS) Service this post will provide an introduction to the HCP Cockpit experience in the form of a walk-through.

On-line Access to the SAP ASE Persistence (DBaaS) Service

The SAP ASE Persistence (DBaaS) Service home can be accessed via a Web Brower. This home link will take the user to the following page as shown in Figure 1 below.

                                                                    Figure 1

In Figure 1 there are two circled (red) clickable buttons. The Trial SAP ASE (green) button will provide a trial registration form to gain access to the SAP ASE Persistence (DbaaS) Service. Once this is submitted the registrar will provide the access credentials for the Trial Account. The Launch HCP (blue) button will log the user into the HCP cockpit for trial or production Administration and Monitoring. NOTE: This self-serve is planned effort. As noted in Part 1 the access to the HCP for the SAP ASE Persistence Service (DBaaS) is via the Account Executive.

A Quick Start walk-through

Upon a successful login the HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) user experience will be driven be a HCP Cockpit console as seen in Figure 2 below. This Dashboard landing view will display a summary of all user deployed applications and account summaries.

                                                                                      Figure 2

The HCP Navigation Options in Figure 2 are explained in Table 1 below.

                                                  Table 1

The Account navigation button will take the user to the Account Management screen as shown below in Figure 3, where the user (with the appropriate privileges) can administer or manage groups and membership, including access control privileges.

                                                                                 Figure 3

The Databases & Schemas button will take the user to the Database Administration page as shown below in Figure 4, where the user (with appropriate privileges) can create and administer Databases and Schemas.

                                                                                    Figure 4

A User (with appropriate privileges) can click the New tab to create a new database. On clicking the New tab the Cockpit interface will display a form as shown in Figure 5 below, for the creation of a new SAP ASE Persistence Service (DBaaS).

                                                                                        Figure 5

The User can fill in the information and then click the Save button to create the instance or Cancel button to cancel the operation. Once filled in and Saved, HCP will create the instance, as shown in Figure 6 below, the “testinstance” has been created.

                                                                                      Figure 6

The View Requests button in Figure 6 lists out a trail of operations, as shown in Figure 7 below.

                                                                                 Figure 7

The HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) provides a rich set of tools to work with the platform and user deployed databases and applications, as shown in Table 2 below.

                                                                                  Table 2

Resources

Tools and Documents:

https://help.hana.ondemand.com/help/frameset.htm?abcae5b568c94e5391a74d15f5db9213.html

Other HCP Links:

http://hcp.sap.com/capabilities/data-storage/ase-dbaas.html

https://help.hana.ondemand.com/