SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Refreshing a Database

You refresh a database to keep the configuration settings of your application instances such as central instance (CI), dialog instance (DI), and so on.

Prerequisites

  • The general prerequisites for provisioning systems have been met.

    For more information, see General Prerequisites for Provisioning Systems.

  • The system can be used for copying. You have configured the following:

    • Initial entities

    • Database refresh setup procedure

  • By default, SAP Landscape Management clones the volumes of the target application servers during a database refresh. You can change the default settings under Start of the navigation pathSetup Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Engine Next navigation step Expert ModeEnd of the navigation path.

    For more information, see Configuring Provisioning Settings.

  • You have generated an XML backup data file containing all SAP Landscape Management configuration details for this system so that you can restore your configuration settings.

    For more information, see Exporting the Configuration Data.

Context

Procedure

  1. Choose Provisioning.
  2. Choose Systems from the tabs.

    The system displays the following:

    • Systems enabled for cloning, copying, and renaming

    • Systems enabled for SAP HANA system replication configuration

    • Cloned and copied systems

    • Systems enabled for application server (un-)installation

    • Systems enabled for Diagnostics Agent (un-)installation

  3. From the Provisioning dropdown for the system, choose Start of the navigation pathRefresh Processes Next navigation step Refresh DatabaseEnd of the navigation path.
    • If one of the following steps, sections, or fields is not applicable, it is not displayed or not eligible for selection in the roadmap.

    • If the validation generated one or more warnings, the navigation to a following step is canceled. To ignore warnings, choose the Ignore warnings for this step button and choose Next to proceed with the following steps.

    • To validate the data entered in one of the workflow steps without triggering a navigation, choose the Validate Step button.

    • To reset one of the workflow steps to its default values, choose the Reset Step button.

    1. Basic
    2. Tenant Details
    3. Hosts
    4. Host Names
    5. Storage
    6. Consistency
    7. Users
    8. Rename
    9. Isolation
    10. ABAP PCA/Java PCA
    11. Delete Storage Volumes/Delete Virtual Hosts
    12. Summary

Next Steps