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Crawl SAP BW/4HANA Private Preview

Extract and catalog metadata from your SAP BW/4HANA system in Atlan. Once configured, the crawler connects to your SAP system through Self-Deployed Runtime and automatically discovers your SAP BW/4HANA assets.

Prerequisites​

Before you begin, make sure you have:

Create crawler workflow​

To create and configure the SAP BW/4HANA crawler workflow, complete the following steps.

  1. In the top navigation, click Marketplace.
  2. Search for SAP BW/4HANA Assets and select it.
  3. Click Install.
  4. Once installation completes, click Setup Workflow on the same tile.

If you navigated away before installation completed, go to New > New Workflow and select SAP BW/4HANA Assets to proceed.

Configure metadata extraction​

Atlan supports using Self-Deployed Runtime for fetching metadata from SAP BW/4HANA.

  1. Install Self-Deployed Runtime if you haven't already:
  2. Select the Agent tab.
  3. Add secret keys for your SAP BW/4HANA credentials in the linked secret store.
  4. Provide the following SAP BW/4HANA connection parameters:
    • SAP Host Name: The hostname or IP address of your SAP BW/4HANA system
    • SAP User Name: The dedicated user account for metadata extraction
    • SAP Password: The password for the user account
    • Connection Type: Choose between Application Server or Message Server. If you choose Message Server, provide:
      • Port: Port number (required if using Message Server)
      • Group: Group number (required if using Message Server)
    • SAP System Number: Two-digit system identifier (00-99)
    • SAP Client Number: Three-digit client identifier (001-999)
    • Use SAP Router: Choose Yes if using a SAP Router, and provide the SAP Router String
  5. Click Next after completing the configuration.

Configure connection​

To complete the SAP BW/4HANA connection configuration:

  1. Provide a connection name that represents your source environment, such as production, development, gold, or analytics.
  2. To change the users able to manage this connection, change the users or groups listed under Connection Admins. If you don't specify any user or group, nobody can manage the connection—not even admins.
  3. Click Next to proceed.

Run preflight checks​

The SAP BW/4HANA crawler runs preflight checks on the configured connection before extraction. Unlike other SAP connectors, this step doesn't include component-level include or exclude filters—Atlan crawls the full set of supported BW/4HANA assets once the preflight checks pass.

The following checks are performed:

  • Connection check: Validates that Self-Deployed Runtime can reach your SAP BW/4HANA system using the provided host, system number, and client number.
  • Authentication check: Verifies that the configured service user can log in and call the required RFC modules (STFC_CONNECTION, RFC_SYSTEM_INFO, RFC_READ_TABLE).
  • System info check: Retrieves system metadata (SYSID, release version, operating system) to confirm the target system is reachable and reporting expected values.

If any check fails, review the error message, fix the underlying configuration in your SAP system or in the connection parameters, and re-run the preflight checks.

Run crawler​

Choose how and when to run the crawler to extract metadata from your SAP BW/4HANA system.

  1. You can either:
    • To run the crawler once immediately, click Run
    • To schedule the crawler to run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, click Schedule Run

Once the crawler completes, you can view the discovered SAP BW/4HANA assets in Atlan's asset page.

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