When you work with SAP changes are good that you come across Bills of Material sooner or later. A common task is to get the list of components that make up a product: you have a BOM and want to know what materials are part of it. It is common Read more…
Problem The HANA indexserver fails to start. ./HDB start You get the error message that the index server failed to start. You can try to start the indexserver manually. cd /usr/sap/HDB/HDB02/exe ./hdbindexserver Indexserver is still failing to start, however now shows a more detailed error description (ignore the DBNAME part). Read more…
Problem You want to start SAP NetWeaver ABAP. The ASCS service starts, the dialog instance not. The status reported of the DIA is GRAY for disp+work. /usr/sap/A4H/D00/exe/sapcontrol -nr 00 -function GetProcessList Root cause More information can be obtained in the output of the work processes. The traces can be found Read more…
Last year SAP HANA celebrated its 10th birthday. There is a nice infographic showing the achievements conquered over the last 10 years. Started 2010, in 2011 customers and partners in general were introduced to it as SAP put it in main focus at their events. Over the next months it Read more…
It is easy to install SAP HXE on Proxmox. It’s just 3 steps. Preparation Install HXE Additional configuration Preparation Before you can run HXE, first you have to download the files from SAP and configure a Proxmox VM for HXE and import the OVA image. I wrote a blog on Read more…
To be able to install EA Designer in HXE, you first need to copy the eadesigner.tgz file to your HXE server. SAP is not making the file available as a free available standalone download. You get the file with the HXE downloader. First “problem” to solve is how to get Read more…
OVA is a virtual appliance, ready to run on a hypervisor. With an OVA file, you can import the image into VirtualBox, VMWare, etc and all needed information is loaded from the file and you can start the VM. This works as long as your hypervisor is capable of reading Read more…