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Using the Data Manager Appliance UI, we can add a protection policy to protect the SAP HANA databases.
Note: Policy-level credentials are mandatory. Credentials that you set at the asset level take precedence over the credentials that you set at the protection policy level. Asset-level credentials have the highest precedence.
An SAP HANA instance can have one system database SYSTEMDB and multiple tenant databases. The SYSTEMDB database and each tenant database can have its own credentials. A tenant database can be backed up with either its own credentials or the SYSTEMDB credentials. Both the SYSTEMDB database and tenant databases support two types of credentials:
1. SAP HANA Database credentials, for which you must specify the database username and password.
2. SAP HANA Userkey credentials, for which you must specify the user key (created with the hdbuserstore command) and OS username of the SAP HANA instance.
In the Set Credentials dialog, the drop-down list includes all the credentials created for SAP HANA. You can select from the existing credentials, or you can create credentials.