Workload Manager evaluation using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP

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.

For information about how to configure Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to collect the Workload Manager evaluation metrics, see Configure Workload Manager evaluation metrics collection.

Pricing

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.