Starting and Stopping SAP HANA

Stopping SAP HANA

You can stop SAP HANA system from OS level using one of the following commands:

HDB stop

/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/hdb/sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr <NN>

-function StopSystem HDB

To stop HANA from HANA Studio

1. Right-click on the system
2. Choose "Configuration and Monitoring" and "Stop System" (you will be prompted to
provide OS credentials)

You can verify the status of SAP HANA system using the following commands

sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr <NN> -function

GetSystemInstanceList

HDB info

After shutdown hdbrsutil process will be running to keep row tables in memory. This allows for a
faster HANA startup. If you wish to stop these processes (for example to reboot the host server),
run the following command
hdbrsutil -f -k -p <port number (e.g. 3xx03)>
You can find the port number from the command "HDB proc"

Starting SAP HANA

You can start SAP HANA system from OS level using one of the following commands:

HDB start

/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/hdb/sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr <NN>

-function StartSystem HDB

To start HANA from HANA Studio

1. Right-click on the system
2. Choose "Configuration and Monitoring" and "Start System" (you will be prompted to
provide OS credentials)

hdbrsutil will not run when HANA is running