SAP HANA /hana/log/ Self-Healing System Blueprint

Synopsis

The SAP HANA /hana/log/ Self-Healing System Blueprint by Vikram Singh Sankhala provides an essential guide for designing and implementing a fully autonomous, self-healing response system for the critical SAP HANA /hana/log/ file system. This book addresses the urgent need for proactive, automated management of this mission-critical component, which is vital for transactional durability and rapid recovery in SAP HANA environments. By detailing a comprehensive technical blueprint, Sankhala empowers SAP landscape designers and infrastructure specialists to build agentic automation systems that continuously monitor, diagnose, and remediate issues related to the HANA log volume, thereby minimizing unplanned downtime and reducing manual operational overhead. This blueprint covers the architectural design of agentic components including monitoring, diagnosis, remediation, orchestration, auditing, and learning modules tailored for SAP HANA log management. It delves into automation workflows for resolving common log volume problems like space exhaustion, I/O latency, and backup failures, leveraging AI/ML and rule-based logic. The book also emphasizes integration guidance for SAP HANA system views, OS tools, and cloud-native APIs, along with continuous improvement strategies through feedback loops and self-learning mechanisms. It champions best practices for high availability, operational resilience, and compliance, aiming to enable high-availability, low-touch SAP HANA environments with proactive, audit-ready file system management and rapid, automated fault recovery, effectively eliminating the need for ticket-based escalations.