Setting Up Validations for Landscape Entities
You set up validations for validating the host and instance configuration data that is actively acquired via the host and instance agents, respectively.
Context
The validation parameter differs for each of the entity types (instances, hosts, databases, and custom instances as instance subtypes, virtual host providers, and so on) in SAP Landscape Management.
Procedure
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Choose
Setup
Validations
.
- Choose Edit.
- On the General tab, set the basic parameters.
- On the Validation tab, expand the validation nodes in the Short Name column.
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Set the following for each of the parameters under each entity type, if required:
Column
Action
Enable Validations
To run the validation checks on the entity, select the checkbox.
Severity
Select the severity to be used when the validation check fails.
Enable E-Mail Notification
To receive e-mail notifications for the validation results, select the checkbox.
E-Mail Addresses
Enter the e-mail addresses of the e-mail notification recipients.
Enable Custom Notification
To receive custom notifications for the validation results, select the checkbox.
Custom Notification
Select the required custom notifications.
Use Default Interval
To use the default validation interval, configured on the General tab page, select the checkbox.
Interval [sec]
If the Use Default Interval checkbox is deselected, enter a specific validation interval.
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To define operations that can no longer be executed because of a failed validation
with an assigned Error severity, select the
Affected Operation Categories required :
Operation Category
Description
Managing Operations-
Instance Start
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Instance Stop
Prohibit executing operations on instances that are not installed adaptively.
For more information, see Operations for Non-Adaptive Enabled Systems and Instances.
Adaptive Operations-
Instance Prepare
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Instance Unprepare
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Instance Agent Register
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Instance Agent Unregister
Prohibit executing operations on instances that are installed adaptively.
For more information, see Operations for Adaptive Enabled Systems and Instances.
System Provisioning Operations-
System Copy and System/Database Refresh
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System Clone
Prohibit executing system provisioning operations.
For more information about system provisioning operations, see Provisioning Systems.
SAP HANA Replication
Prohibit executing SAP HANA Replication operations.
For more information about SAP HANA Replication operations, see SAP HANA Replication.
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Optional: To define individually for which SAP instances or database instances a
validation is executed, select constraints.
Per default, validations are executed for all SAP instances or database instances. Not all constraints are suitable for all validations such as the database type constraint for validations executed on SAP instances only.The validation is executed for instances matching the selected constraints.
- Save your entries.
Results
Under
Operations
Instances
or
Operations
Hosts
, you can do the following:
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View the validation results by grouping the entities based on the validation option.
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Trigger new validations or suppress validations for the currently selected entity on the Validation tab.
