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 VM 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 do not 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 examples listed under each metric are not an exhaustive list. For more information about them, see Workload Manager best practices for SAP.
Metric | Description |
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System |
OS and guest level information about the instance.
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Corosync |
Information about the Corosync configuration for an HA cluster.
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Pacemaker |
Information about the Pacemaker configuration for an HA cluster.
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HANA |
Information about the configuration of the SAP HANA system.
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HANA Insights and Security |
Settings and configuration of the SAP HANA database.
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 |
NetWeaver |
Information about the configuration of the SAP NetWeaver system. |