Workload Manager evaluation using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP

Version 3.2 (latest)

• Version 3.2 (latest)
• Version 2
• Version 1

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.

Note: The collection of Workload Manager metrics is supported only on Linux. It is not supported on Windows.

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
System	OS and guest level information about the instance. Instance name OS name and version Agent version
Corosync	Information about the Corosync configuration for an HA cluster. Configuration set in /etc/corosync/corosync.conf. Runtime configuration retrieved using corosync-cmapctl.
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.
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.
HANA Insights and Security	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.
NetWeaver	Information about the configuration of the SAP NetWeaver system.