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Overview:  HANA 2.0 is having XSA as base for many application like HANA cockpit, WEB IDE, Big Data Hub to name a few. You are lucky if you get it through for installation but sometimes you are stuck with few issues which you keep trying to solve , you don find solution. This Blog identifies and help you solve few of them. Getting a guide is very easy. But troubleshooting in real world might make your head spin. So sharing my experience. XX will represent the instance no. used in this blog. Error:  Adding role ‘xs_worker’ failed: Check /var/tmp latest update folder and it will mention the file name which contains more details. It should be with name like hdbmodify_addlocalroles.log. and Reason :  FAIL: process hdbxscontroller HDB XS Controller not running Sub Reason:   Could not startup the controller components: SAP WebDispatcher failed to bind application port (already occupied). Route to application will be unavailable. Restarting the...

Enable the embedded XS Engine of the indexserver by executing the following statements on the system database: ALTER SYSTEM ALTER CONFIGURATION ('xsengine.ini', 'database', ' ') SET ('httpserver', 'embedded') = 'true' with reconfigure; ALTER SYSTEM STOP DATABASE  ; ALTER SYSTEM START DATABASE ;

The ini files are stored at the following default location on the server: /hana/shared/$SID/global/hdb/custom/config. File Details /usr/sap/ /HDB /exe/config Default values (not to be adjusted) /usr/sap/ /SYS/global/hdb/custom/config/ .ini Valid for a specific service (e.g. indexserver) or component (e.g. multidb) on all hosts /usr/sap/ /SYS/global/hdb/custom/config/global.ini Valid for all services on all hosts /usr/sap/ /HDB / / .ini Valid for a specific service (e.g. indexserver) or component (e.g. multidb) on a specific host /usr/sap/ /HDB / /global.ini Valid for all services on a specific host

during update or installation of new Version of Hana , you can get above message in Log. Solution: use Physical hostname instead of virtual name . if necessary , uninstall xs engine and shutdown server, clean install would be great