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A license enables certain licensed features, features that require a license item include:

  • Scripting module

  • Mail module

  • SNMP module

  • Import/Export module

  • Expiration date

  • Number of SAP Systems

  • Number of platform agents

A license is made of license keys that have a value, the value can be a date, number, boolean or string.

When you lack a license key, that license key will automatically have the value of false.

Navigate to   Configuration → License Keys   to inspect your license.

Your license should look similar to the one below:

Module.Scripting true

Module.ImportExport true

ProcessServerService.External.limit 100

ProcessServerService.OS.limit 100

ProcessServerService.SAP.limit 2

company.contract SLA-MSLN-PROD-1

company.name Masalan Inc

product.expiry 20100630

request.requesting_version M37

signature 1;a300a310a300600a318a319a320a321a330a330400a330200a330600a340a340400a340600a350a380a380800

system.id prd1

Note Note

In the above license, the licensee can create 100 external schedulers in total, that could mean 100 OS process servers and no SAP process servers or 98 OS process servers and 2 SAP process servers, for example. It does not mean that the licensee can create 102 (100 OS and 2 SAP) process servers.

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The following table illustrates some of the license keys that are available.

License key

Description

company.contract

Contract number.

Module.Scripting

Scripting using RedwoodScript.

Module.Security

The security module allows individual grants for system and object privileges.

Module.ImportExport

Import/export repository objects.

Module.Mail

Use the System_ConfigureMail and System_SendMail jobs to send email.

Module.SNMP

Use the System_SendTrap job to send SNMP traps.

Module.PermaLink

Allows third-party software to interface with SAP CPS.

ProcessServerService.External.limit

Total number of external process servers (for example OS and SAP process servers)

ProcessServerService.OS.limit

Number of platform agent on UNIX/Windows.

ProcessServerService.SAP.ApplicationsAPI

The SAP Applications API is available

ProcessServerService.SAP.cc

Closing Cockpit features are available.

ProcessServerService.SAP.CalendarSync

SAP Calendar synchronization is available

ProcessServerService.SAP.MassActivities

Mass activity scheduling is available

ProcessServerService.SAP.ProcessChainRestart

Process chain restart is available

ProcessServerService.SAP.SolutionManager

Solution manager integration is available.

ProcessServerService.SAP.XBPAllVersions

Use the Redwood transports that allow full functionality in all XBP versions.

ProcessServerService.SAP.XBPExternal

Use the SAP external command jobs.

ProcessServerService.SAP.XBPVariant

Support for working with variants using our user interface.

ProcessServerService.SAP.limit

Number of SAP process servers/SAP Systems that can be created, 2 in this example. If the value is 0, then you can connect to an unlimited amount of SAP Systems, however, you can only interact with one at any given time, see the licence restrictions below.

Note Note

When you install a new license from a different contract, the old license keys remain in place and have no effect. You can use the license manager to remove old licenses by deactivating the contract. The license manager is available at: http://server:port/scheduler/ui/licence/manager.jsp.

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Searching License Keys

You can search for license keys using the Search License Keys box located under your username on the top right-hand side of the user interface. This is known as intelliSearch and allows you to specify complex queries in a simple way using prefixes. Prefixes are used to specify which property you are searching in and have short and long syntaxes. For example, if you want to display all license keys for contract SGO-FR-0210-008-P you would use the following search criteria:

c:SGO-FR-0210-008-P

You can search more than one property, as follows:

c:SGO-FR-0210-008-P n:Module.SNMP

Note Note

No spaces should be entered before or after the colon (:).

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See the Advanced Object Search for more information.

The following table illustrates the available prefixes for license keys:

Prefix

Description

n, name

name of the license key (case sensitive)

con, contract

contract name (case sensitive)
Special Restrictions
SAP Systems

Note Note

You may be restricted to connecting to a single SAP System from within SAP CPS at any given time; this depends on your license, your privileges and the value of the ProcessServerService.SAP.limit license key.

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If the ProcessServerService.SAP.limit license key is limited to 0, the following restrictions are in place:

  • one SAP System may be created per partition with one XBP client.

  • any partition with a null isolation group is read-only.

  • only the system can create partitions with a null isolation group.

  • all monitors from SAP (via XAL) will be created in the appropriate isolation group.

  • SAP batch event will raise events in the isolation group only.

  • job control rules will function only for jobs from the defined XBP client, child jobs will be picked up regardless in which client they were created.

  • variant management will be limited to the defined XBP client.

  • BW restart will be possible, however, it requires the ProcessServerService.SAP.ProcessChainRestart license key

  • Mass activities will be possible, however, they require the ProcessServerService.SAP.MassActivities license key

  • Redwood transports will be available for mass activities

  • SAP Applications API will be available, however, they require the ProcessServerService.SAP.ApplicationsAPI license key

  • SAP_AbapRun, SAP_BW_ProcessChainRun, and all the other SAP job definitions that run jobs will only allow ABAP reports, variants, and process chains that have been imported into SAP CPS

Process Servers

The maximum amount of external process servers is specified by the ProcessServerService.External.limit license key, it would normally be coupled with two other license keys that share the same number which are ProcessServerService.OS.limit and ProcessServerService.SAP.limit. To allow you the greatest flexibility, SAP allows you to create as many OS and SAP process servers as you want, as long as the grand total OS process servers + SAP process servers does not exceed the value defined in ProcessServerService.External.limit. At any time, you may shutdown and delete a process server to make room for another, regardless of either being an SAP or OS process server. Note, however, that to delete a process server all dependent objects, such as jobs that ran on that process server, need to be deleted first.

Vendor Restrictions

Not all vendors distribute the same functionality, please see the Different Versions section for more information.