License management gives you central access to the distribution of license data (licenses and maintenance certificates).
You get information about the validity of existing licenses and maintenance certificates in the managed systems, and can monitor the status of the distribution of new licenses and maintenance certificates.
New licenses and maintenance certificates for managed systems, which the background job REFRESH_ADMIN_DATA_FROM_SUPPORT
delivers to the SAP Solution Manager system, are generated in the SAP Global Support Backbone. The licenses and maintenance certificates are available locally in the SAP Solution Manager system, and can be downloaded manually.
You can select whether to activate the automatic distribution of licenses and maintenance certificates from the SAP Solution Manager system, to the managed systems. For further information about the technical process, see Automatic Distribution of License Data.
The prerequisites in the SAP Solution Manager system and the managed systems are fulfilled (see License Management Prerequisites).
The System Overview
displays the information about the licenses and maintenance certificates in your managed systems. In addition to basic information relevant to your systems, for example system ID and the status of automatic license distribution, it displays:
Maintenance contract validity
Current product version and highest possible release
Status of the licenses or maintenance certificates of the managed system
Existing licenses and maintenance certificates are determined, for ABAP systems via the RFC connection and the background job LANDSCAPE FETCH
, and for Java systems with the extractor LICENSE DISTRIBUTION
. The following status values are possible:
Status | License | Maintenance certificate |
---|---|---|
Red |
|
A system check has rated the maintenance certificate as non-existent. |
Yellow |
|
A system check would still rate the maintenance certificate as existing. |
Green | License is valid. | Maintenance certificate is installed and valid. |
Gray | No data. Rating is not possible. | No data. Rating is not possible. |
Status of the transfer of licenses or maintenance certificates from the SAP Global Support Backbone to the SAP Solution Manager system
The following status values are possible:
Status | License | Maintenance certificate |
---|---|---|
Red | No license. |
|
Yellow | — |
|
Green | License is available. | Maintenance certificate is available. |
By choosing a specific system, you get the following detailed information, which License Management uses as the basis for the displayed status values:
License data from the managed system, determined by the SAP Solution Manager system
License data sent from the SAP Global Support Backbone, to the SAP Solution Manager system, which is available for distribution to the managed system
Log messages for the managed systems
These can be error or success messages for the license data found and transferred. .
Note
Personalizing the system overview can deactivate the filters when you go from the work center Overview
to the license management system overview.
When you activate automatic license management, the data is automatically passed to the managed ABAP or Java system, when the ABAP system requests it, or the extractor LICENSE DISTRIBUTION
calls the license data for the Java system.
To activate or deactivate automatic license distribution for managed systems:
Select at least one managed system in the System Overview
.
Under Automatic Distribution
choose the entry Activate Automatic Distribution
or Deactivate Automatic Distribution
.
The Automatic Distribution Status
column shows the new status.
If licenses and maintenance certificates have been fetched from the SAP Global Support Backbone, and saved in the SAP Solution Manager system, for a managed system (status Green
), you can download the license data, and save it locally as text files.
You can then upload the licenses and maintenance certificates downloaded as text files, to the license application of the managed systems (for example, transaction SAP License Management
(SLICENSE
) for ABAP systems).
To download license data for managed systems, from the SAP Solution Manager system:
Select managed systems in the System Overview
.
Choose Download Licenses
.
To save the licenses and maintenance certificates, select the target directory.
The license of a system is saved as a text file. The licenses for several systems are grouped as text files, into a ZIP file, and saved.
As the customer of a service provider, you can access the license management. Only the systems for your customer number are displayed. You may be assigned to more than one customer number.
You filter the systems by customer number, with the Customer
value help. If you do not select a customer number, all systems are displayed.
Note
If the managed systems are connected to the SAP Solution Manager system, and all prerequisites are fulfilled, you can activate the automatic distribution of licenses and maintenance certificates.
If there is no connection, you can download the license and maintenance certificates from the SAP Solution Manager system.