SAP Landscape Management

Writes archived logs to the file system.

SAP Host Agent and SAP Adaptive Extensions

• Creating SAP HANA database backups

• Deleting SAP HANA database backups that have the suffix lvm

• Modifying files for local name resolution (etc/hosts, lmhosts)

• Modifying files for mounting network drives

• Modifying SAP system dependent configuration files (profile, global.ini, xsengine.ini defined parameters)

• Extracting SAPInst to a temporary folder on the managed host before executing it using the Software Provisioning Manager

• Modifying local firewall settings

• Creating or deleting working files under:

  • /tmp/VCM
  • /tmp/VCM_sapinst
  • c:\temp\VCM
  • c:\temp\VCM_sapinst
• Modifying NFS exports. By default:

  • /usr/sap/<SID>
  • /sapmnt/<SID>
  • /usr/sap/trans

  Additional directories have to be configured.

Storage Partner Adapters

The actual implementation and consequently the operations executed on the storage are implemented by SAP partners. The entities managed by the storage are copied, created and deleted on the managed storage system.