This planning guide focuses solely on the Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection
feature of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. For information about the agent and
all its features, see
Google Cloud's Agent for SAP planning guide.
On Linux, Google Cloud's Agent for SAP can help you in evaluating your SAP workloads
that run on Google Cloud. This is delivered through the collection of
Workload Manager evaluation metrics which is enabled by default for new agent installations as of version 3.2 on your Compute Engine instances or Bare Metal Solution servers.
Once you enable the collection of the Workload Manager evaluation
metrics, you can enable
Workload Manager
services for your SAP workloads. The information collected in the
Workload Manager evaluation metrics help you check the
configuration and settings of your SAP applications, databases, and
high-availability configurations. For information about the best practices that
Workload Manager supports for evaluating SAP workloads, see
Workload Manager best practices for SAP.
From version 3.2, you don't incur any additional cost for using
Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to collect the Workload Manager
evaluation metrics, or store these metrics in Workload Manager.
Workload Manager evaluation metrics
The following table describes the categories of Workload Manager
evaluation metrics collected by Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. The metric strings in
this table must be prefixed with workload.googleapis.com/. This prefix has
been omitted from the entries in the following table.
Category
Metric
Description
System
sap/validation/system
OS and guest level information about the compute instance.
Instance name
OS name and version
Agent version
Corosync
sap/validation/corosync
Information about the Corosync configuration for an HA cluster.
Configuration set in /etc/corosync/corosync.conf.
Runtime configuration retrieved using
corosync-cmapctl.
Pacemaker
sap/validation/pacemaker
Information about the Pacemaker configuration for an HA cluster.
Configuration set in the Pacemaker XML config.
The maintenance_mode setting for the Pacemaker
cluster.
SAP HANA
sap/validation/hana
Information about the configuration of the SAP HANA system.
Configuration set in the global.ini file for the SAP
HANA system.
Information about the disks hosting the SAP HANA data and log
volumes.
SAP HANA insights and security
sap/validation/hanasecurity
Settings and configuration of the SAP HANA database.
Best practice recommendations for database password settings.
Best practice recommendations for data and log backups.
Best practice recommendations for scale-out and high-availability
cluster settings.
To enable the collection of this metric, you must allow access to the
SAP HANA database, for which you need to configure additional
parameters in the workload_validation_db_metrics_config
section. For more information, see
Configure Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection.
SAP NetWeaver
sap/validation/netweaver
Information about the configuration of the SAP NetWeaver system.
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