SAP Note
Header Data
Symptom
It's required to attach a SAP HANA destination to a project of
the BW Modeling Tools, but no suitable SAP HANA destination was
found. This happens also even if the required SAP HANA destination
is configured in the SAP HANA Administration Console.
Other Terms
BW-MT, BWMT, BW, SAP HANA
Reason and Prerequisites
You are using the BW Modeling Tools and want to attach a SAP
HANA destination to the project. The solution mentioned in note
2054930 did not help.
Solution
For a project of the BW Modeling Tools, it's only supported to
attach a SAP HANA destination which corresponds to the SAP HANA DB
used for the BW instance. The BW Modeling Tools compares the
information from the BW application server (hostname/ IP address
and instance number) with the available SAP HANA destinations
configured in the SAP HANA Administration Console. Only SAP HANA
configurations which match to the BW database information will be
listed in the selection dialog. It's furthermore important to
consider, that only SAP HANA destinations can be attached which
have already the logged on state.
In case the hostname of the SAP HANA DB registered on the BW
application server cannot be reached by SAP HANA Studio (e.g.
different domain), it's necessary to add an entry to the hosts file
of the operating system. This new entry must map a reachable IP
address of the SAP HANA DB to the hostname which is expected by the
BW Modeling Tools. The following steps explains the configuration
of the client operating system.
1. Detection of the DB IP address. In SAP HANA Studio open
context menu on configured system and select menu entry
"Properties". In the appearing dialog select the area "Database
User Logon". Now the corresponding logon details will be listed.
Open the tab "Hosts Used to Connect". In the provided list, there
should be the hostname and the required IP address listed.
Alternatively you can use the ping command of the operating system
to get the IP address. For this step perform the command "ping " in
the command shell. In the first appearing line you will find the IP
address.
2. Detection of the hostname used by the BW Modeling Tools Logon
to BW server by SAP-GUI and open status dialog via menu: System
->Status... Take the BW hostname from the field "Host" in the
section "Database Data".
3. Detection of used domain (optional) In case there are
multiple domains involved in a BW server landscape, it's necessary
to detect also the configured domain. For this step, start the
report "RSPFPAR" in transaction SE38. Enter the value "SAPFQDN"
into the first field and execute the report. In the appearing table
you will find the domain in the "User Value" or "SysDefault"
column. In case "User Value" is specified, this value should be
preferred.
4. Addnewentryto"hosts"fileonclientoperatingsystem. You can find
the hosts file on MS Windows at the following location:
c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. On Linux it's typically located
here: /etc Addthefollowinglinetothefile:. Please note, it could be
necessary to copy the hosts file to different location, do the
modification and then copy back the file to original location. Due
to OS restrictions, it can be possible that the direct modification
is not allowed.
Now it should be possible to attach the HANA System to the
project of the BW Modeling Tools. Also in case the host names still
do not match, at least the IP address resolution of the operating
system should now allow to attach the HANA System.
2103008 - HANA System cannot be attached to BW Modeling Tools
due to network configuration
Version 2 Validity: 01.12.2014 - active Language English
(Master)
Released On 01.12.2014 13:13:44 Release Status Released for
Customer Component BW-MT Modeling Tools (Eclipse) Priority
Recommendations / Additional Info Category Consulting
