SAP HANA Connection

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SAP HANA is a cloud-based business software for financial, project, and inventory management.

This topic describes how to authenticate to SAP HANA and configure any necessary connection properties in the SAP HANA connection connector.

Connection Configuration #

Each connection property available in the SAP HANA connector is explained below.

Connection Name #

The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.

Connection Type #

Option to choose between either connecting securely using SSH Tunnel or, proceed with a Direct Connection when connecting to SAP HANA.

If Connection Type value is SSH Tunnel, additional fields will be displayed.

To know more about SSH Tunneling with Gathr, see SSH Tunneling

SSH Tunnel #

If SSH Tunnel is selected, additional configuration parameters will get listed.

SSH Key #

The SSH key should be provided to authenticate the associated SSH host and SSH user.

SSH Host #

Public IP address of your SSH host.

SSH User #

Default SSH username.

If Connection Type value is Direct Connection, then proceed by updating the following fields.

Server #

The server or IP address of the SAP HANA server.

Port #

The port for the SAP HANA server.

Database #

The name of the SAP HANA database running on the specified Server.

User #

The SAP HANA user account used to authenticate.

Password #

The password used to authenticate the user.

Enable SSL #

Option for creating the connection with SSL enabled.

Upload Keystore File #

Option to upload keystore file.

Advanced Configuration #

This section contains advanced configuration parameters.

UseSSL #

This field sets whether SSL is enabled.

Add Configuration: Additional properties can be added using this option as key-value pairs.

After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.

If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.

Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.

If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.