SAP S/4HANA Administration

Manage and maintain your SAP S/4HANA system! Understand the architecture of the ABAP platform, from its technical requirements to your options for configuration. Set up the system landscape, administer the client and database, and maintain your instances. Put proper security in place using authorizations, user profiles, encryption, and more. From archiving to virtual systems, this is the A-to-Z guide you need to perform all essential administration tasks in SAP S/4HANA.

Highlights include:

1) ABAP platform
2) System landscape
3) Clients
4) Instances
5) Users and authorizations
6) Security
7) Monitoring
8) Performance tuning
9) Database administration
10) Data archiving and transfer
11) Frontend components

Maintain the database, archive data, set up security, monitor and tune the system, and more

Autorentext
Bert Vanstechelman is founder of and principal technical consultant at Logos Consulting, and has more than 20 years of experience in SAP Basis consulting, running all kinds of SAP versions in combination with all possible databases and operating systems supported by SAP. He specializes in platform migrations, SAP release upgrades, and Unicode conversions. Bert is a member of the board of advisors of the SAP Professional Journal. He is also the co-author with Mark Mergaerts of the following SAP PRESS books: the SAP OS/DB Migration Project Guide, the mySAP ERP Upgrade Project Guide, and the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Upgrade Guide. Bert lives near Bruges, Belgium, and is married with three children.

Inhalt
... Preface ... 25

... Who Is This Book For? ... 25

... How Is This Book Organized? ... 26

... Acknowledgments ... 29

1 ... The Future of the Basis Administrator ... 31

1.1 ... SAP S/4HANA: On-Premise and in the Cloud ... 32

1.2 ... RISE with SAP ... 33

1.3 ... Summary ... 36

2 ... Overview of the ABAP Platform ... 37

2.1 ... Components of the ABAP Platform ... 38

2.2 ... Client/Server Architecture ... 42

2.3 ... Presentation Layer ... 43

2.4 ... Application Layer ... 53

2.5 ... Database Layer ... 60

2.6 ... SAP S/4HANA and the Internet ... 66

2.7 ... Summary ... 70

3 ... Architecture ... 71

3.1 ... Component Overview ... 71

3.2 ... Dialog Processing ... 75

3.3 ... Background Processing ... 78

3.4 ... Updating ... 106

3.5 ... Lock Management ... 121

3.6 ... Output Management ... 131

3.7 ... Internet and Communication ... 165

3.8 ... Summary ... 196

4 ... Technical Requirements and Operations ... 197

4.1 ... Product Availability Matrix ... 198

4.2 ... SAP S/4HANA Application Layer on Linux and UNIX ... 202

4.3 ... SAP S/4HANA Application Layer on Microsoft Windows ... 212

4.4 ... SAP HANA Database Layer ... 219

4.5 ... Starting, Stopping, and Monitoring Instances on Linux and UNIX ... 226

4.6 ... Starting, Stopping, and Monitoring Instances on Microsoft Windows ... 231

4.7 ... Starting, Stopping, and Monitoring SAP HANA ... 235

4.8 ... Troubleshooting SAP S/4HANA Instances ... 244

4.9 ... Troubleshooting the SAP HANA Database System ... 250

4.10 ... Summary ... 260

5 ... Client Administration ... 263

5.1 ... Data Types ... 264

5.2 ... Clients in an SAP System ... 265

5.3 ... How the System Keeps Clients Apart ... 266

5.4 ... Creating Clients ... 268

5.5 ... Logical Systems ... 274

5.6 ... Copying Clients ... 276

5.7 ... Client Transport ... 283

5.8 ... Working with Table Snapshots ... 289

5.9 ... Deleting a Client ... 292

5.10 ... Transport-Based Copy ... 292

5.11 ... Special Operations for Clients ... 294

5.12 ... Cleaning Up Logs ... 298

5.13 ... Table Logging ... 299

5.14 ... Summary ... 302

6 ... Change Management and Transports in the System Landscape ... 305

6.1 ... Key Terms ... 306

6.2 ... Development Objects ... 307

6.3 ... Change Requests ... 312

6.4 ... Transactions for Managing Change Requests ... 322

6.5 ... Preparing the Transport System ... 328

6.6 ... Transport Management System ... 335

6.7 ... Special Transport Topics ... 351

6.8 ... Summary ... 361

7 ... Maintaining Instances ... 363

7.1 ... Parameters and Profile Maintenance ... 364

7.2 ... Display and Maintain Parameters Online ... 377

7.3 ... Operation Modes ... 381

7.4 ... Dynamic Work Processes ... 389

7.5 ... User Load-Balancing ... 392

7.6 ... RFC Server Groups ... 397

7.7 ... Summary ... 400

8 ... Users and Authorizations ... 401

8.1 ... Users in SAP ... 401

8.2 ... Managing Users ... 403

8.3 ... Mass User Changes ... 411

8.4 ... Password and Login Security ... 414

8.5 ... Authorization Concept ... 419

8.6 ... Managing Roles ... 427

8.7 ... Authorization Profiles ... 446

8.8 ... User Information Management System ... 447

8.9 ... Central User Administration ... 449

8.10 ... Summary ... 458

9 ... Security ... 461

9.1 ... Authentication and Single Sign-On ... 462

9.2 ... Securing Communication ... 488

9.3 ... SAP Web Dispatcher ... 501

9.4 ... Restricting Access ... 517

9.5 ... Protecting Data ... 530

9.6 ... Auditing ... 544

9.7 ... Summary ... 558

10 ... Monitoring Activities ... 559

10.1 ... Application Servers and Work Processes ... 559

10.2 ... Message Server ... 568

10.3 ... Gateway Monitor ... 573

10.4 ... Developer Traces ... 576

10.5 ... System Messages ... 580

10.6 ... User Overview ... 583

10.7 ... System Log ... 584

10.8 ... Runtime Errors ... 586

10.9 ... Host Monitoring ... 589

10.10 ... Summary ... 593

11 ... Performance and Tuning ... 595

11.1 ... Dialog Steps and Response Time ... 596

11.2 ... Statistical Records ... 604

11.3 ... Monitoring the Workload with Transaction ST03 ... 606

11.4 ... Working with Statistical Records: Transaction STATS ... 626

11.5 ... Database Monitors ... 639

11.6 ... Monitoring the Servers ... 645

11.7 ... Memory Management ... 648

11.8 ... Table Buffering ... 659

11.9 ... Summary ... 671

12 ... SAP HANA Database Administration ... 673

12.1 ... Introduction to SAP HANA ... 673

12.2 ... DBA Cockpit for SAP HANA ... 689

12.3 ... SAP HANA Cockpit ... 701

12.4 ... SAP HANA Studio ... 722

12.5 ... Command-Line Tools ... 733

12.6 ... Summary ... 744

13 ... Development ... 745

13.1 ... Development Tools ... 746

13.2 ... Developing a Simple Program ... 748

13.3 ... Changing SAP Code ... 765

13.4 ... Creating and Changing Dictionary Objects ... 767

13.5 ... Performance Analysis Tools ... 778

13.6 ... Summary ... 798

14 ... Data Archiving ... 801

14.1 ... Archive Development Kit ... 802

14.2 ... Archiving Objects ... 803

14.3 ... Storage Options ... 805

14.4 ... Preparation Activities ... 810

14.5 ... Executing Archiving Runs ... 814

14.6 ... Access Options for Archived Data ... 826

14.7 ... Summary ... 832

15 ... Data Distribution and Transfer ... 833

15.1 ... Destinations ... 834

15.2 ... Server Groups and Parallel Processing ... 842

15.3 ... Transactional RFCs ... 847

15.4 ... Queued and Background RFCs ... 848

15.5 ... Application Link Enabling ... 863

15.6 ... Data Transfer ... 874

15.7 ... Summary ... 877

**16 ... Frontend Components ... 8…