SAP Licensing Procedure
Prerequisites
To use your SAP software legally and in accordance with the contractual stipulations, SAP Systems can only be operated with a license key granted by SAP.
If you have installed the SAP Web Application Server in the J2EE-only variant, you can find the relevant license details in Licensing the SAP J2EE Engine.
Process Flow
When you install your SAP System a temporary license is automatically installed that allows you to operate the system for four weeks (as of the date of installation). Before the temporary license expires, you must apply for a permanent license key from SAP. We recommend that you do so as soon as possible after you install your system (or transfer the message server to a different host). See Applying for an SAP License.
When you receive the license key from SAP, you can install and manage the license using transaction SLICENSE (see License Administration with Transaction SLICENSE).
More information:
SAP Notes on the SAP License
SAP Note Number |
Topic (Short Text) |
94998 |
Request license key for systems / delete systems |
566263 |
SAP license in upgrade to Release 6.x (or higher) |
628630 |
Core dump in SlicShmInit |
174911 |
Formation of the hardware key (customer key) |
612645 |
Performance problems accessing table LICENSE |
432308 |
SAPLICENSE 6.10: new field SYSTEM-NR |
355536 |
Importing the SAP license from a file |
538081 |
High availability SAPLICENSE |
576136 |
License expiry date is not displayed correctly |
428966 |
Transaction SLICENSE: installation is not working |
485233 |
Table MLICHECK in wrong table space on Oracle |
742024 |
Downloading the license key |
181543 |
License key for high availability environment |
198140 |
Reassigning systems |