Automation

Starts the whole SAP System with all SAP application servers belonging to the SAP system.

The detailed start procedure is the following:

Stops an SAP System. This action stops all SAP instances belonging to an SAP system.

Avantra executes the SAPControl StopSystem function to stop the SAP system. After executing SAPControl StopSystem function, Avantra waits until all SAP instances are stopped. To do that the SAPControl GetSystemInstanceList function is executed. The maximum time to wait is 20 minutes. If not all SAP instances are stopped after 20 minutes, Avantra reports this automation action as failed.

Starts the database belonging to an SAP System.

How the database is started depends on the database vendor. Avantra currently supports start/stop on following databases and operating systems:

Restrictions:

Stops the database belonging to an SAP system.

The SAP system is not stopped with this action. The supported databases and operating systems can be found in Start SAP Database action. The SAP system must already be stopped before the database is stopped.

Starts the SAP database AND the SAP System (all SAP instances). Please read the comments for "Start SAP System" action and "Start SAP Database" for details about the start actions.

Stops the SAP System (all SAP instances) AND the SAP database. Please read the comments for Stop SAP System action and Stop SAP Database for details about the stop actions.

Starts the SAP HANA System DB, all SAP HANA tenants and the SAP System. This is a special action for SAP HANA systems only. While non-HANA SAP systems runs on a dedicated database which belongs to the SAP system, HANA SAP system share one HANA database. Each HANA SAP system runs on a so-called HANA tenant which is part of the HANA database. This action starts the HANA platform (the HANA system DB). Based on your HANA settings, the HANA tenants are started as part of this procedure. Once the HANA system DB is up and running, this automation action starts the HANA tenant database (the database belonging to the SAP system). Based on your HANA settings, this HANA tenant might already been started during the start of the HANA platform. This is not an issue if this is the case, the HANA tenant will not be started again. Once the HANA tenant is up and running, the SAP System is started. Please refer to Start SAP System for details.

Stops the SAP System, the SAP HANA tenants database, and the SAP HANA System DB. This action stops the SAP system and SAP database, please refer to Stop SAP System and Database action. After that, the HANA platform (system DB) is stopped as well.

So, please use this command with caution.

This action is only applicable when your SAP systems are running on cloud servers which can be started and stopped from Avantra (please refer to "xxx" how to start and stop servers). Since an SAP system might run on multiple servers, this action detects first all servers which are hosting the SAP system. Then those cloud servers are started. Once the cloud servers are up and running, the SAP system is started. Refer to Start SAP System and Database action.

This action is only applicable when your SAP systems are running on cloud servers. Please refer to Start SAP System, Database and servers on details.

Starts a SAP HANA System DB (HANA may start tenants depending your HANA settings).

Stops SAP HANA System DB (all tenants are stopped too).

Starts a single SAP Instance. The SAPControl Start function is used to start the SAP instance.

Stops a single SAP Instance. The SAPControl Stop function is used to start the SAP instance.

Starts a single cloud server. The cloud authentication must be correctly defined for this cloud server.

Stops a cloud server. The cloud authentication must be correctly defined for this cloud server.

Starts a standalone database.

Avantra currently supports start/stop on following standalone databases and operating systems:

Stops a standalone database.

See Start Database to see what databases are supported.

This action waits until a specific check from a specific system has a defined state.

Get the total number of process of an SAP instance. This action executes the SAPControl function GetProcessList.

Get the detailed process list of an SAP instance This action executes the SAPControl function GetProcessList.

Get the detailed SAP instance list of the SAP system This action executes the SAPControl function GetSystemInstanceList.

Get the version of the Avantra agent.

Wait for a specific time. This might me useful to make sure a previous action has time to finish.

Executes operating system commands The commands run with the agent user. Make sure that the agent user has the required permissions to execute the commands.

Executes a script with an ssh session. You have to define SSH credentials to use to establish an ssh session. You can either use global credentials which are defined in Integrations or you can define ad-hoc credentials which are only used and visible for this action. Since the ssh script runs with the defined ssh credentials, the script is not limited anymore to the agent user permissions. It runs with the permissions given to the ssh user. Use this action if you want to execute script commands with another user than the agent user.

Send a message to all users logged in to the SAP system (SAPGUI).

Raising an SAP Event. The RFC function RSSM_EVENT_RAISE is called. This automation action can be used for example to start an SAP job.

Executes a RUN_JS (RFC capable) script.