KnowCardSAP S/4HANA Administration
Starting, Stopping & Diagnostics
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What does resetting a developer trace actually do?
What's the general syntax of sapcontrol, and as which user is it run?
In sapcontrol GetProcessList, what do GREEN, YELLOW, and GRAY mean, and what doesn't it show?
In the SAP Management Console, what's the difference between a hard and a soft shutdown?
In what order does a full system stop shut down instances?
How do soft and hard shutdown differ for SAP HANA?
What should you expect when stopping a SAP HANA tenant database, regardless of settings?
What do dev_disp, dev_w#, dev_rd, dev_icm, and dev_ms each trace?
What happens to developer traces when an instance is stopped, and what's the risk?
What do developer trace levels 0 to 3 mean, and which hurt performance?
What controls SAP HANA trace file rotation, and what are the defaults?
What are the parts of a SAP HANA trace message, especially the severity codes?
What's the difference between the HDB command and sapcontrol for managing HANA?
To start or stop the whole SAP HANA system, which database must you connect to?
What are SAP HANA's logs and traces on the database server collectively called?
Which transactions display developer traces for the dispatcher, message server, enqueue server, gateway, and ICM?
What three tools can manage an SAP HANA system?
Which files in the SAP HANA trace directory must you never delete?
How can SAP HANA Studio help you collect diagnostics for SAP support?
What replaced the deprecated startsap/stopsap scripts in SAP S/4HANA?
Why might StartSystem fail right after a reboot, and what must run first?
A sapcontrol call returns FAIL: NIECONN_REFUSED — what does that tell you?
The instance is running but completely unresponsive — which command-line tool helps, and what is it like?
How is an SAP system started and stopped on Windows, and what does it use underneath?
How are SAP HANA tenant databases started/stopped, and what privilege is needed via hdbsql?
What's the recommended way to monitor SAP HANA, and what option exists if S/4HANA is running?
Where do SAP instance trace files live, and how are developer traces named?
How can you change the trace level globally vs selectively per component?
What does rdisp/TRACE_LOGGING do by default?
Where are SAP HANA trace files located, and how are they named?
Why is the SAP HANA alert trace often the best file to check first?
When SAP HANA can't recover, what file does it write, and what are the other dump types?