hana-client Cookbook

This cookbook installs the specified version of the SAP HANA Client on a windows
machine. Just plug in the location of your SAPCAR.exe extractor, and the SAR
package.

This is a BYOP cookbook (Bring Your Own Package). You
need to provide a download location for SAPCAR and the SAR package.

Supports

This cookbooks supports the following windows versions, and has been tested on
SAP's internal cloud and AWS as noted below.

Attributes <a name="attributes"></a>

Basic & Required

You need to provide these values to the cookbook so that it can install the
client on your system. You may have specified these values as a part of
another cookbook.

Advanced & Optional

These attributes are used to fine tune the installation.

Resource/Provider

hana-client

Actions

• :install
• :uninstall

Use the actions to install or remove an installation of the client to or from
the specified location. uninstall removes any HANA client(s) found in the
root path.

Example

hana_client "C:\\Root\\Path\\To\\Install\\hana-clientent\\" do
  installer "C:\\Path\\To\\Extracted\\Installer\\hdbinst.exe"
  action :install
end

hana_client "C:\\Root\\Path\\To\\Finhana-clientent\\" do
  action :uninstall
end

hana_client_sap_media

Use hana_client_sap_media to extract an SAP SAR file to a specific location.

Example

hana_client_sap_media "Source.SAR" do
  remote_path "Destination for extracted files"
  sapcar "URL://of.SAPCAR/for/extraction"
end

Usage

hana-client::default

So you want to install the HANA client? In addition to the resources
provided above, you can use this cookbook's default recipe to install the SAP
HANA Client. Here's how:
1. Depend on me (in your metadata.rb).
ruby
depends 'hana-client'


• Tell me about your files (where to find them) and options (using
  attributes).

  • [REQUIRED]: Location of SAPCAR.
  • [REQUIRED]: Location of the SAR package you want.
  • [OPTIONAL]: Change the default installation directory.
  • [OPTIONAL]: Set the reinstall flag to remove any previous client.

• Include hana-client in your node's run_list:
  json
{
"name":"my_node",
"run_list": [
"recipe[hana-client]"
]
}


Contributing

Contributions are welcomed!

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Test your change
5. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Authors

• Emmanuel Iturbide (e.iturbide@sap.com)
• Dan-Joe Lopez (Dan-Joe.Lopez@sap.com)

License

Copyright 2016, SAP

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.