Upgrading HANA XSA & WebIDE

Obtaining the Software

It’s easy to forget exactly what’s been installed, so I have captured here the pieces I needed.

Search Words	Description	Filename (as at 11-Sept-2018)
EXTAPPSER	Extended App Services – XSA server binaries	EXTAPPSER00P_88-70001316.SAR
HRTT	HANA Run Time Tools, required for WebIDE	XSACHRTT06_62-70002322.ZIP
XSACMONITOR	XSA Monitoring, required for WebIDE	XSACMONITORING06_5-70002324.ZIP
WEBIDE	SAP WEBIDE 2	XSACSAPWEBIDE03_6-80002257.ZIP

Extracting the SAR

If you extract the XSA Server (EXTAPPSER*.SAR) component to a sub-folder within the same parent directory as the install media (SAP_HANA_DATABASE) then the SAP_HANA_DATABASE\hdblcm will find EXTAPPSER.

media

|

|– SAP_HANA_DATABASE

|     |- hdblcm

|     |- hdbinst

|     |- hdbsetup

|     |- …

|

|– XSA_SERVER  (put EXTAPPSER*.SAR in here, and extract it)

|     |- hdbinst

|     |- …

Installing EXTAPPSER

Running hdblcm from SAP_HANA_DATABASE directory and it will automagically find the XSA_SERVER and other packages within the directory structure.

Below I had already installed the XSA update using option 3.

Updating the XSA Apps

With the install completed I then used the xs client commands to update the WebIDE and associated components.

First log into XSA and specifying the appropriate space.

mo-3fda111e5.mo:/usr/sap/IH2/HDB00> xs login -u XSA_ADMIN -p TopSecretPassword -a https://mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp:30030 -s SAP

API_URL: https://mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp:30030

USERNAME: XSA_ADMIN

Authenticating...

ORG: orgname

SPACE: SAP

API endpoint:   https://mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp:30030 (API version: 1)

User:           XSA_ADMIN

Org:            orgname

Space:          SAP

I can now go ahead an install the download zip files.

xs install XSACHRTT06_62-70002322.ZIP 

xs install XSACSAPWEBIDE03_6-80002257.ZIP 

xs install XSACMONITORING06_5-70002324.ZIP 

Space Enablement

Before actually using the updated WebIDE, it is required update the di-builder via the space enablement your non SAP space.  To find out out the URL for this you can run this xs command.

mo-3fda111e5.mo:/hana/media/XSA-88> xs app di-space-enablement-ui --urls

https://mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp:51022

Going to that URL,shows the space needs updating with the latest goodies.

Proxy Configuration

For me to use external sites such as github.com or deploy to cloudfoundary required a proxy.  This can done by specifying the JBP_CONFIG_JAVA_OPTS for the DI_CORE module and redeploying it. I created a .mtaext file with the following contents.

_schema-version: "3.1.0"

ID: com.sap.devx.xs2-config1

extends: com.sap.devx.webide

modules:

  - name: di-core

    parameters:

      port: 53030

      memory: 512M

    properties:

      JBP_CONFIG_JAVA_OPTS: '[java_opts: " -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxy.wdf.sap.corp -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.wdf.sap.corp -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.wdf.sap.corp -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=\\"*.sap.corp;*.corp.sap;mo-3fda111e5;mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp;localhost;127.0.0.1;10.*\\" -Dhttps.nonProxyHosts=\\"*.sap.corp;*.corp.sap;mo-3fda111e5;mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp;localhost;127.0.0.1;10.*\\""]'

After creating the .mtaext file I then needed to redploy the WebIDE to pickup the proxy settings.

xs install XSACSAPWEBIDE03_6-80002257.ZIP -e My-WebIDE.mtaext -o ALLOW_SC_SAME_VERSION --delete-services

Npm (node package manager) also requires the proxy to be set, I did this as below.

 xs set-env di-local-npm-registry HTTPS_PROXY http://proxy.wdf.sap.corp:8080

 xs set-env di-local-npm-registry HTTP_PROXY http://proxy.wdf.sap.corp:8080

 xs restage di-local-npm-registry

 xs restart di-local-npm-registry

SSL – Private Key

Previously I had not configured a trusted SSL certificate for XSA, but this can lead to unexpected errors with the different xsa services. Each untrusted URL needs to been granted browser exceptions.

I had already setup SSL for XS, so thought it would be easy to re-use some of that configuration (it’s not that easy).

1. Export the private key from the in-built SAP keystore.  

sapgenpse export_p12 -p /usr/sap/IH2/HDB00/mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp/sec/SAPSSLS.pse /hana/media/ssl/Export.p12

2.  Convert the .p12 format to pem.

openssl pkcs12 -in Export.p12 -out Export.pem -nodes

Within the newly generated export.pem there are multiple certificates and keys.  The Private Key is the required part which starts with.

—–BEGIN PRIVATE KEY—–

3. copy/paste just the private key that into a new file Private.key

4. Convert to pkcs8 (that XSA requires).  This can be converted with this command.

openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -in Private.key -out Private_pkcs8.key -nocrypt

SSL Root & Intermediate Certificates

XSA also requires a full certificate chain.  This means you need to supply the host, intermediate and root certificates all combined into a single x.509 PEM encoded file.

I was provisioning and internal SAP host using our internal Web Enrolment Service.  This provides  the certificate for the XSA host, but it needs to converted and combined with the full certificate chain.  I download the appropriate root (SAP Global Root CA) and intermediate (SAPNetCA_G2), which come in .crt format.

1. Download the correct root & intermediate Certificates

2. Convert to x509 PEM format

openssl x509 -in SAPGlobalRootCA.crt -outform PEM -out SAPGlobalRootCA.pem 

openssl x509 -in SAPNetCA_G2.crt -outform PEM -out SAPNetCA_G2.pem

openssl x509 -in mo-3f.txt -outform PEM -out mo-3f.pem

3. Combine certificates in correct order (host, intermediate, root)

cat mo-3f.pem >> combined.pem

cat SAPNetCA_G2.pem >> combined.pem 

cat SAPGlobalRootCA.pem >> combined.pem 

Upload to XSA

xs set-certificate mo-3fda111e5.mo.sap.corp -c combined.pem -k Private_pkcs8.key

After successfully installing the certificate you need to restart each of the XSA apps individually or the whole of XSA (which is easier). This can be dome with the hdbadm user.

mo-3fda111e5.mo:/usr/sap/IH2/HDB00> XSA restart

After which I have XSA & WebIDE running with a signed SSL certificate.

Including all the new graphical Calculation View operators like graph, anonymization, union, minus, intersect, hierarchy function, etc.

Troubleshooting

If you do experience any issues the following commands are useful for identifying, potential issues.

xs display-installation-logs 

xs logs webide —recent

If the certificates get messed up you can reset those using the hdbadm user

mo-3fda111e5.mo:/usr/sap/IH2/HDB00> XSA reset-certificate