SAP HANA Lifecycle Management includes two features in HANA system: Platform Lifecycle Management for performing updates and customizing SAP HANA platform, and Application Lifecycle Management to manage applications based on SAP HANA system and transports.

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SAP HANA Admin ─ Platform Lifecycle Management

SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Manager can be used to perform installation and update of SAP HANA system, to configure additional components, post installation configuration, to add or remove hosts, to view system information, and to configure inter-service communication.

Following are the key features under SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Manager −

You can integrate your SAP HANA system with business solutions such as – SAP Solution Manager by registering under System Landscape Directory SLD.
You can also add/remove hosts to your SAP HANA landscape.
You can add and configure additional components, rename your HANA system or you can convert a single container system to multiple container system and vice versa as shown in the following screenshot.

In the above screenshot, you can see different options under SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management.

SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management can be accessed via three ways −

Web User Interface
Graphical User Interface
Command Line

SAP HANA Admin ─ Application Lifecycle Management

You can use SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management to support all the phases of lifecycle of SAP HANA application development, defining the application structure to perform transport and update management for Applications.

SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Manager supports various phases of application development −

Model − Define Package structure, define package hierarchy, and assign packages to Delivery Units for application development.
Develop − Perform application development in packages and to track changes.
Transport − Transport your developed application and it can be done using transporting products or delivery units.
Assemble − Assemble your developed product and translation delivery units for assembling your add-on product.
Install − Install products and software components from SAP Support Portal.

Access SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

To access SAP HANA ALM, you can open SAP HANA Cockpit and navigate to SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management.

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You can click HANA Application Lifecycle Management from here or can be opened directly using the web browser.

http://<WebServerHost>:80<SAPHANAinstance>/sap/hana/xs/lm

Example − In our system, HANA ALM is accessed using the link − https://hanaerp:4312/sap/hana/xs/lm/?page=HomeTab

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In SAP HANA Cockpit, you can use tiles available in the SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management and in the SAP HANA Application Installation and Update groups. These tiles can be customized as per your requirement.

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SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management Roles

In order to perform SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management tasks, you should assign application lifecycle management roles to the users. There are various roles that are available in SAP HANA system to perform HALM tasks. Few of the key roles include −

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::Administrator

This role is required to perform all read and write operations in the SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management and to grant access privilege to other uses in SAP HALM environment.

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::Developer

This role is required to perform changes and to work on the change list and add objects to the change list from the development perspective.

sap.hana.xs.lm.roles::ExecuteTransport

This role is required to perform specific transport operations but they can’t perform system register or maintain systems, define new transport routes, delivery units, or new packages in the repository.

These roles can be assigned to the users using SAP HANA Cockpit or under SAP HANA Studio → Security tab.

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In the above screenshot, you can see different SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management roles that can be assigned to the users for performing development and transport tasks.

SAP HANA Admin – Securing HANA System

It is necessary to implement security in SAP HANA environment to protect critical information and access the database system. You should properly manage authentication and authorization methods, and security policies should be reviewed regularly.

You should also manage the users and roles, auditing activities in SAP HANA, encryption of data in HANA database, and client certificates in the system.

SAP HANA system has many security settings that should be implemented carefully otherwise any misconfiguration can result in a risk of unauthorized access.

SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio provides you with different options to monitor critical security settings.

Following is a list of security related features provided by SAP HANA −

User and Role Management
Authentication and SSO
Authorization
Encryption of data communication in Network
Encryption of data in Persistence Layer

Additional features in multitenant HANA database −

Database Isolation − It involves preventing cross-tenant attacks through the operating system mechanism.
Configuration Change blacklist − It involves preventing certain system properties from being changed by tenant database administrators.
Restricted Features − It involves disabling certain database features that provides direct access to the file system, the network, or other resources.

View Security Settings in SAP HANA Cockpit

To view security settings in SAP HANA system, open SAP HANA Cockpit and navigate to SAP HANA Security Overview group.

You should have the role sap.hana.security.cockpit.roles::DisplaySecurityDashboard assigned to view the security settings in HANA Cockpit.

You can check the status of security on each tile under SAP HANA Security Overview. You can further drill down by clicking on any tile to see more details.

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