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.
sap/validation/system
- Instance name
- OS name and version
- Agent version
sap/validation/corosync
- Configuration set in
/etc/corosync/corosync.conf. - Runtime configuration retrieved using
corosync-cmapctl.
sap/validation/pacemaker
- Configuration set in the Pacemaker XML config.
- The
maintenance_modesetting for the Pacemaker cluster.
sap/validation/hana
- Configuration set in the
global.inifile for the SAP HANA system. - Information about the disks hosting the SAP HANA data and log volumes.
sap/validation/hanasecurity
- 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/validation/netweaver
