SAP Product Lifecycle Costing 2.0 SP 1

Getting Started Guide

Document Version: 1.0 – 2017-05-04

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Table of Contents

1 Solution Information................................................................................................................ 3

2 Licenses .................................................................................................................................... 5

3 Solution Provisioning in SAP Cloud Appliance Library .........................................................6

4 Security Aspects ...................................................................................................................... 7

4.1 Solution Instance ....................................................................................................................................................7

4.2 SAP Systems and SAP HANA ............................................................................................................................7

4.3 SAP Product Lifecycle Costing ..........................................................................................................................7

5 Post Instance Creation Steps ................................................................................................. 8

5.1 HTTPS Access to the XS Engine of SAP HANA ................................................................................................... 8

5.2 Activation of Technical Users................................................................................................................................ 8

5.3 Download and Configuration of the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing Client ...................................................... 8

5.4 Download and Configuration of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis 2.4, edition for Microsoft Office ............. 9

1 Solution Information

This section provides general information you need to use the solution SAP Product Lifecycle Costing 2.0 Hotfix

Material Numbers

You can access a system that has been installed with the following applications:

Medium Number Description

IMDB_SERVER100_122_8-10009569.SAR Maintenance Revision 122.08 (SPS12) for HANA DB 1.00

IMDB_AFL100_122P_800-10012328.SAR SAP HANA AFL 1.0 Rev 122.800 only for HANA DB 122.08

IMDB_CLIENT100_120_55-10009663.SAR Revision 120 for SAP HANA CLIENT 1.00

IMC_STUDIO2_122_8-80000321.SAR Revision 122.08 for SAP HANA STUDIO 2

HCO_PLC_AFL_01_0-70002211.SAR SAP Product Lifecycle Costing AFL 2.0 SP 1

HCOPLC01_0-80002066.ZIP SAP Product Lifecycle Costing HANA 2.0 SP 1

PLC_CLIENT_01_0-80001905.EXE SAP Product Lifecycle Costing Client 2.0 SP 1

AOFFICE24SP02P_1-80002022.EXE SP02 Patch1 for ANALYSIS OFFICE CLIENT 2.4

Components

The solution comprises the following component versions:

Name Version

SAP HANA 1.00.122.08

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing AFL 2.0 SP 1

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing HANA Content 2.0 SP 1

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing Client 2.0 SP 1

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft Office 2.4 SP2 Patch 1

Database Server Details

The database server details are as follows:

Name Value Description

SID HDB System ID of the SAP system

Instance Number 00 Instance number of the central instance of the SAP System

DB SID HDB System ID of the database of the SAP system

DB Type HDB Type of the database

Username SYSTEM

SAPHDB

DBACOCKPIT

These are the standard users which you can use to access the database

server.

Password Appl1ance Note that for solution provisioning in SAP Cloud Appliance Library the

password is reset to the one provided when you created the instance.

Operating System Users and Groups

The database server uses the following operation system users and groups:

Name Description

hdbadm SAP system and database administrator with password Appl1ance. Note that for solution

provisioning in SAP Cloud Appliance Library the password is reset to the one provided when

you created the instance.

sapsys Group containing all <SID>adm users (should be a group in a central user storage like LDAP,

NIS, or Active Directory)

2 Licenses

Free Trial License Agreement

This solution can be used as a trial for the configured free period. Note that you are not allowed to install license

keys under the Free Trial License Agreement.

SAP Product License Agreement

To use the instances created from this solution under your own SAP Product License Agreements, you have to

unlock the solution in SAP Cloud Appliance Library. The prerequisites are that you own the required SAP Product

licenses and that you purchase the SAP Cloud Appliance Library subscription package. For more information, see

Unlocking Solutions.

License Keys Installation

Once you create the solution instance in SAP Cloud Appliance Library, the SAP system will generate a temporary

license key that is sufficient for exploration purpose. Note that valid license is required to use the solution

instance after the expiration of the pre-installed temporary license. For this solution you have to request and

install the following license keys.

SID Product Version DB OS Comment

HDB SAP HANA Platform Edition 1.0 n/n Linux Recommended quantity is 64/128 GB RAM

For more information about how to request and install product license keys, see this SCN blog.

3 Solution Provisioning in SAP Cloud

Appliance Library

Once you have a user in SAP Cloud Appliance Library, the following prerequisites apply before you can use the

SAP Cloud Appliance library:

Prerequisites

· You have a valid account with a cloud provider

You have a valid account with one of the cloud providers supported by SAP Cloud Appliance Library.

If you already have an active cloud provider account, please continue to the next section. Otherwise, navigate

to the cloud provider home page and sign up.

For more information about the supported cloud providers, see the FAQ page.

· You have opened the SAP Cloud Appliance Library

You can open the SAP Cloud Appliance Library in your Web browser using the following link:

https://cal.sap.com

For more information about how to use solutions in SAP Cloud Appliance Library, see the official

documentation of SAP Cloud Appliance Library (choose Support à Documentation link and choose

(expand all) button to see all documents in the structure). You can also use the context help in SAP Cloud

Appliance Library by choosing the Help panel from the right side.

4 Security Aspects

4.1 Solution Instance

Be aware that creating your instances in the public zone of your cloud computing platform is convenient but less

secure. Ensure that only port 22 (SSH) is opened when working with Linux-based solutions and port 3389 (RDP)

when working with Windows based solutions. In addition, we also recommend that you limit the access to your

instances by defining a specific IP range in the Access Points settings, using CIDR notation. A more complex, but

secure alternative, is to set up a virtual private cloud (VPC) with VPN access, which is described in this tutorial on

SCN.

The list below describes the ports opened for the security group formed by the server components of your

solution instance:

To access back-end servers on the operating system (OS) level, use the following information:

Protocol Port Description

SSH 22 Used for SSH connection to Linux-based servers

RDP 3389 Used for RDP connection to Windows based servers

4.2 SAP Systems and SAP HANA

You must change the initial user passwords provided by SAP when you log onto the system for the first time.

Note that when using HANA based appliances, HANA systems are not installed individually but are cloned from a

template system. As a consequence of this cloning process, the existing root keys are cloned. For more

information, see SAP Note 2134846 - HANA encryption key handling during system cloning.

For more information about security vulnerabilities, see this community page.

4.3 SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

Once you have created a new instance of SAP Product Lifecycle Costing, please see the following security-related

sections in this guide regarding SAP Product Lifecycle Costing:

· 5.1 HTTPS Access to the XS Engine of SAP HANA

· 5.2 Activation of Technical Users

5 Post Instance Creation Steps

All instances of the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing cloud solution contain the software components necessary to

use the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution, and come preconfigured with default settings. However, the

following manual steps must be executed once in order to use SAP Product Lifecycle Costing successfully.

5.1 HTTPS Access to the XS Engine of SAP HANA

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing uses secure HTTPS for communication. Therefore HTTPS access to the XSEngine

of the SAP HANA database must be configured to use a certificate that can be validated by the client during login.

More details can be found in the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing Administrators Guide at https://help.sap.com/plc

→ Installation and Upgrade Information → Administrator’s Guide.

5.2 Activation of Technical Users

During the installation of SAP Product Lifecycle Costing, two system users, SAP_PLC_TECHNICAL_USER and

SAP_PLC_TECHNICAL_USER_REPO, with default passwords are created. For security reasons, these users are

initially deactivated. To enable database access, change the passwords of the new usersand activate them.

Please make sure the users and not required to change the password afterwards. In SAP HANA Studio, e.g.

select the option "No" for the setting "Force password change on next logon" when changing the password. For

more information on changing passwords and activating users, see the Administrators Guide for SAP Product

Lifecycle Costing at https://help.sap.com/plc → Installation and Upgrade Information → Administrator’s Guide.

5.3 Download and Configuration of the SAP Product

Lifecycle Costing Client

The SAP Product Lifecycle Costing client-installer file is placed inside the created instance. It is available in the

directory /cal/plugins/plc/ and can be copied from there. More details regarding the installation and

configuration can be found in the Administrators Guide for SAP Product Lifecycle Costing at

https://help.sap.com/plc → Installation and Upgrade Information → Administrator’s Guide.

5.4 Download and Configuration of SAP BusinessObjects

Analysis 2.4, edition for Microsoft Office

The SAP BusinessObjects Analysis 2.4, edition for Microsoft Office installer file is placed inside the created

instance. It is available in the directory /cal/plugins/afo/ and can be copied from there. More details

regarding the installation and configuration can be found in the Administrators Guide for SAP BusinessObjects

Analysis 2.4, edition for Microsoft Office at https://help.sap.com/boao → Installation, Configuration, Security and

Administration Information → Administrator’s Guide.

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