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Author's profile photo Frank Schuler

Take full control with the SAP Data Intelligence System Management Command-Line Client Tool

The SAP Data Intelligence user interface has come a long way since I installed SAP Data Hub 1.1.2 in early 2018:

However, if you were old school like me, you might still want to get to the command line. Luckily, the SAP Data Intelligence System Management Command-Line Client Tool is easy enough to download from the SAP Data Intelligence System Management:

There are versions for Windows, Linux and Darwin (macOS):

Being a Unix veteran, I chose the Linux version. However, in my case, calling it out of the box results in this

Error: post https://<SAP Data Intelligence domain>: <ingress-TLS-port>/api/login/v2/finalize: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority.

To overcome this, I import the CA certificate from Expose SAP Data Intelligence System Management Externally On-Premise:

cp <SAP Data Intelligence CA>.pem /etc/pki/trust/anchors/
update-ca-certificates

As a result, here I go:

This is the link to the System Management Command-Line Client Reference.

Happy command lining!

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      Author's profile photo HANA ACC
      HANA ACC

      Hi Frank Schuler,

      I have a SAP DI cloud version and have tenant admin rights but I couldn't be able to see the option Download VCTL.

      What level of access do we need to enable the Download VCTL option?

      Regards,

      Ravikanth