License Management 
License management provides you with central access to the distribution of licenses and maintenance certificates.
You can activate or deactivate the automatic distribution of licenses and maintenance certificates for a system. You can also download licenses and maintenance certificates to a local directory.
The overview provides you with information on the systems, such as the ID, the installation number, the unique system number in the SAP Support Portal, or the status of the distribution of the licenses and maintenance certificates.
Prerequisites
You will find information on the prerequisites under Work Center Change Management.
The following prerequisites are fulfilled in the managed system in order to display the licenses and maintenance certificates of the managed system in the license management:
The software component ST-PI has at least the SAP support package:
SAP Basis 700: ST-PI 2005_1_700 SP07
SAP Basis 710: ST-PI 2005_1_710 SP05
Procedure
System Overview
The System Overview list shows the following:
Note
You can specify the columns displayed in the System Overview list. For more information on the settings for a list, see Using the Work Center.
System
ID of the system
Installation Number
System Number in SAP Support Portal
Status of Automatic Distribution
Product Version Name
Release
Maintenance Validity
License and Maintenance Certificate
Status of the licenses or maintenance certificates of the system
The background job LANDSCAPE FETCH determines the licenses or maintenance certificates.
A license can have the following status values:
License Status
Meaning
Red
Valid to has been exceeded.
Yellow
Valid to will be reached in a maximum of 30 days.
Green
License valid.
Gray
No data available.
Evaluation is not possible.
A maintenance certificate can have the following status values:
Maintenance Certificate Status
Meaning
Red
Valid to has been exceeded.
In a check, the system has evaluated the maintenance certificate as not available.
Yellow
Valid to will be reached in a maximum of 30 days.
In a check, the system would evaluate the maintenance certificate as available.
Green
Maintenance certificate is installed and valid.
Gray
No data available.
Evaluation is not possible.
Received License and Received Maintenance Certificate
Status of the transfer of licenses or maintenance certificates from the SAP Global Support Backbone
The background job REFRESH_ADMIN_DATA_FROM_SUPPORT gets the licenses or maintenance certificates for the SAP Solution Manager from the SAP Global Support Backbone. The SAP Solution Manager saves the license or maintenance certificate for the managed system locally. The data saved is then available to be called up by the managed systems.
A license can have the following status values:
License Status
Meaning
Red
No license available.
Green
License is available.
A maintenance certificate can have the following status values:
Maintenance Certificate Status
Meaning
Red
Valid to has been exceeded.
Yellow
Valid to will be reached in a maximum of 30 days.
Green
Maintenance certificate is available.
Note
You can filter the systems displayed in the list according to their status values. To do so, you choose Filter and enter the following filter values in the corresponding column:
Displayed Status |
Filter Value |
|---|---|
Red |
*red |
Yellow |
*yellow |
Green |
*green |
Gray |
*inactive |
When you select a system in the system overview, you also see the following in the screen area Details of selected system:
Which data the SAP Solution Manager obtained from the managed system and displays in the status display
Which data was obtained from the SAP Global Support Backbone for the system and is now available in the SAP Solution Manager for collection by the managed system.
Note
Personalizing the system overview can result in the filters not being taken over when you navigate from the overview of the license management to the system overview of the systems.
Automatic License Distribution
You can activate or deactivate the automatic license distribution for a managed system.
When you activate the automatic license management, the SAP Global Support Backbone gets licenses and maintenance certificates for the managed system. When the managed system requests the data, it is transferred.
When you deactivate the automatic license management, the SAP Global Support Backbone also gets licenses and maintenance certificates for the managed system. When the managed system now requests the data, it is not transferred. The licenses for the managed system are available locally in the SAP Solution Manager and can be downloaded.
To activate or deactivate the automatic license distribution for a managed system, you proceed as follows:
In the System Overview list, select the managed system, or multiple systems at the same time.
Under Automatic Distribution choose the entry Activate Automatic Distribution or Deactivate Automatic Distribution.
The Status of the Automatic Distribution column shows the new status.
Downloading Licenses and Maintenance Certificates
You can download the licenses and maintenance certificates obtained by the SAP Global Support Backbone and stored locally in the SAP Solution Manager, and then save them locally as text files.
Proceed as follows:
Note
You can only download licenses and maintenance certificates if data is stored locally in the SAP Solution Manager for the managed system (status Green).
In the System Overview list, select one or more managed systems.
Choose Download Licenses.
To save the licenses and maintenance certificates, select the target directory. When you download the licenses for one system, they are saved as a text file. When you download the licenses for multiple systems, the text files for the licenses are grouped together into a ZIP file and saved.
Note
You can then upload the licenses and maintenance certificates, downloaded as text files, to the license application of the managed systems (for example, transaction SLICENSE for ABAP systems).
License Management for Customers of Service Providers
As the customer of a service provider, you can access the license management. Only those systems are displayed for you that belong to your customer number. It is possible that you are assigned to more than one customer number.
You can use the Customer search help to select the customer number. Then the systems for the customer number selected are displayed. If you do not select a customer number, all systems are displayed.
Note
If the managed systems are connected to the SAP Solution Manager and all the necessary prerequisites are fulfilled, the licenses and maintenance certificates are automatically distributed in the managed systems.
For more information, see Automatic Distribution of Maintenance Certificates.
If no connection exists, you can download the licenses and maintenance certificates.