Since the ABAP environment in SAP BTP typically interacts with other BTP services, you may be interested in a performance monitoring of such outbound communication. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can use the System Outbound Communication app in the ABAP environment. You can even get alerted by mail if the performance of a specific outbound....

In this article, we’ll talk about Microsoft Azure’s monitoring services and how we may use them. Customers operating their SAP landscapes on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Large Instances can use Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, an Azure-native monitoring tool. With Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, we are able to centrally collect and visualise telemetry....

As customer or partner, you might want to know more about the health of your ABAP system in a cloud-centric system landscape. Now, you might already be aware that you can use SAP Cloud ALM as the central entry point to monitor your solution landscape. What’s probably less well known is that SAP Cloud ALM....

As an administrator or developer, you need to keep track of the performance of your own applications in the ABAP environment of SAP BTP. Ideally, you have an app that not only shows you when performance deteriorates, but that also allows you to drill down to the relevant requests and the associated code. In this....

In a Feb. 27 speech at Carnegie Mellon University Jen Easterly, Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), called on technology companies to take greater responsibility when it comes to the design and security of their products. A few days later, the Biden administration released the long-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS), which confirms the US....

SAP Cloud ALM, the SAP Application Lifecycle Management platform in the cloud, comes with several services, especially in the Run area, that can trigger events. These events are usually configurable either from the service’s configuration page or from Intelligent Event Processing service. In some cases, we need to forward important events or alerts to an external application. A typical....

This paper focuses on listing down the technical details and sequence of steps which are needed to accomplish the automation of Google Cloud Virtual Machine deployment along with SAP HANA DB instance installation using Terraform and Ansible scripts. Intention is not to teach about terraform or/and ansible scripting or SAP HANA but sharing my hands-on....

This article is about Public cloud services (also known as software as a service) and not covering platform or infrastructure as a service. All core principles are valid for the SAP Cloud product family and all public cloud vendor offerings. Cloud operations help companies operate, adopt and develop software applications. In this article, we explain....

写在前面：本篇博客为翻译作品，希望帮助使用中文的客户通过更好地理解 SAP S/4HANA Cloud 更新/升级中所能使用的特性、功能和限制，帮助您更好地计划业务，整体提高使用产品的效率。 同时也感谢 Vincent Zhu （Vincent Zhu）在本篇翻译过程中所提供的建议！   原作者是： Akshay Sharma (Akshay Sharma) 原文发布在：https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1648480?source=email-global-notification-mod   如今，客户希望云解决方案能够提供持续可用性，无需等待计划维护事件。他们期待软件部署不再中断其业务。这正是蓝绿部署（Blue-Green Deployment）方法帮助 SAP S/4HANA Cloud 实现的成果。 随着当前蓝绿部署能够支持基于 ABAP 的云系统的更新（hotfix 热修复）和升级（新版本发布），SAP S/4HANA Cloud 的停机时间为 5 分钟或更短。这一数字将计划进一步减少，直至到0。 本博客旨在向您介绍 SAP S/4HANA Cloud 更新/升级中使用的蓝绿部署方法，并讨论即使正在运行更新/升级，用户也可以使用的所有特性和功能。下面，我们开始吧！   什么是蓝绿部署？ 蓝色和绿色仅指不同版本的两个运行时（runtimes）。如下图所示，蓝色是当前正在使用的生产运行版本，绿色是更新/升级之后的版本，最终将替换蓝色版本。 蓝绿部署   蓝绿部署的工作方式如下：使用者使用蓝色版本时；绿色版本将被并行部署。然后，当使用者切换为使用绿色版本时，蓝色版本将被移除。在上图中，“准备 V2”（“Preparing V2”）和“切换到 V2”（“Switching to V2”）阶段代表更新/升级阶段。 就是这样简单！ 这意味着更新/升级所需要做的更改都会在尽可能不影响用户的情况下被部署。在后台执行大部分更新/升级相关任务后，系统即切换到更新的版本，而更新后的系统即刻变为可用。因此，用户遇到的不允许登录系统的停机时间通过蓝绿部署将大大减少。 目前，SAP S/4HANA Cloud 中的所有....

SAP released a new SAP Cloud ALM scenario in 2022 that is pretty similar to what you would find in SAP Solution Manager (User Experience Monitoring) and Focused Run (Advanced User Monitoring). This new “Synthetic User Monitoring” (SUM) is essentially a lightweight alternative to bulkier but much more powerful solutions for continuous performance monitoring, such....

SAP and AWS have been partnering since 2008 to innovate on behalf of our customers to bring the flexibility and agility of the AWS platform to manage SAP’s cloud applications and workloads. As a logical progression to this partnership, SAP, and AWS have joined forces and have come up with a set of Reference Architectures to....

Today, customers expect that cloud solutions should offer continuous availability, sparing them the need to wait for planned maintenance events. They prefer that software deployments do not disrupt their businesses anymore. And this is exactly what Blue-Green deployment methodology helps SAP S/4HANA Cloud achieve.   With the current Blue-Green deployment supported updates (hotfix) and upgrades (release)....

I have been working quite a lot on cloud applications integration with SAP S/4 HANA systems off late and thought it would be useful to put a few basics together for any new starters. What is SAP BTP? In simple terms, SAP BTP hosts numerous cloud applications and provides integration capabilities across SAP & third-party....

Run Operations for SAP software systems and services are typically embedded in the organizational and procedural models and practices of Customer Center of Expertise (CCOE) and therein the Operations Control Center (OCC). The latter is responsible for the two main processes of Run Operations scenario Detect-to-Correct:  Event Management and Continuous Improvement. Customer Center of Expertise with Operations Control Center....

In 2021, the organization decided to migrate SAP workloads to AWS to enjoy the benefits provided by the cloud. At the same time, we will be step closer to modernizing the applications. In on-prem, we were using Site2Site VPN with SAP. We planned to use a similar solution in AWS using “AWS Site 2 Site VPN”. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpn/latest/s2svpn/VPC_VPN.html....

Running a Home-Grown Security Compliance Solution In a previous blog from about a year ago, I already spoke about our move towards compliance-as-code for security compliance scanning in SAP. Since then, the solution has involved into a policy control development, scanning and data pipeline operation that enables compliance, remediation and enforcement efforts through the organizational hierarchy. Multicloud....

Running an Operations Control Center (OCC) today, i.e. the management of hybrid system and solution landscapes, includes intelligent technology and processes. As previously outlined, the Operations Control Center addresses IT usecases and services such as Monitoring, Alerting, Reporting/Analytics, Dashboards/Telemetry, as well as efficient and effective Root Cause Analysis and Issue Resolution Procedures. The concept is tried and tested;....

1. Motivation 1.1. Where do we come from? 1.2. What do we want to solve here? 1.3. Take aways 2. Boundary conditions 2.1. Prerequisites 2.2. What we want 2.3. What we have 3. Mile high setup 4. Branches, tags and other dilemmas 4.1. Implementation 4.2. Normal cluster updates 4.3. Branch reconciliation and synchronization 5. Who....

In this blog post you will find some personal suggestions about how to study for exam AZ-104 and get Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator.   Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure Fundamentals Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure Administrator Associate Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty Get certified at no (or little....

For a long time, remote work was either a way for a lean business to save office costs or a way to organize cooperation between people who could not work together otherwise (e.g., those living in different locations). However, the pandemic turned everything upside down in a matter of weeks. Now working remotely is the new....

These are some notes about studying for the eponymous Microsoft AZ-120 certification in Azure for SAP Workloads. Be aware that the content of AZ-120 exam (and of the AZ-104 exam) evolves over time – as indeed will the set of useful study materials – so this document can only be a fairly subjective snapshot, taken....

Previous articles describe the Operations Control Center (OCC) as an integral part of SAP’s best practice operational model for IT organizations. Examples of advanced topics and applications relevant in and for the Operations Control Center can e.g. be found in part 1 (Robotic Process Automation), part 2 (Conversational Artificial Intelligence), part 3 (Intelligent Operations Analytics), and part 4 (Simplified Process Monitoring) of this article series. Intelligent....

In this blog I give some advice about studying for certifications related to the topic of running SAP on Google Cloud (“GC”). It’s possible some of the advice gets out of date over time, however as SAP itself as well as SAP on Hyperscalers evolve at a slower rate than some areas of cloud computing,....

In this blog post, you will find some personal suggestions about how to study for exam CLF-C01 and get AWS Certified as Cloud Practitioner. For the Azure Fundamentals certification, see Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure Fundamentals Most of the material is made available for free by AWS and includes online courses, live streams with Q&A, additional....