Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA Administration and in this video
I will show you how you can update your license.
This video has been recorded on release SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 from April 2018 and SAP HANA
cockpit 2.0 SP08 from October 2018.
For earlier or later releases, please check the playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
When I connected to my system this morning, I noticed two alerts.
One for the Backup, which still needs to be done and the other for Availability, with
a warning that my license is about to expire.
Alert 31.
Adding or updating your system license is pretty straight forward in the SAP HANA Cockpit,
just select the Manage system licenses link in the Database Administration tile.
This will open the SAP HANA Licensing app.
Note that I am connected to the System Database, so this license will apply to all my tenant
databases.
It is, however, also possible to update a license for a particular tenant database only.
Under General Information, we can see that our current license is temporary, valid for
90 days.
We can see peak memory usage and the hardware key, we will need that later on.
As of Cockpit SP07, we now have a memory usage graph.
When you request your license, you will be prompted to provide the maximum amount of
memory for the license and here you can see if that would present any issues.
To start the process, click Request New License.
Copy the hardware key and make note of the system identifier.
Click Go to SAP Support Portal to continue.
Select Request Keys.
You will be prompted to log on to the SAP ONE Support Launchpad with your S-, P-, or
I-number, or your SAP ID, typically your e-mail address.
We are viewing the internal license key generation app here.
Your view might be slightly different.
I will first register my system: SAP HANA, platform edition, edition 2.0.
Add the System ID.
It is a training system running Linux.
OK.
Now, we can add a license key using the plus sign here.
SAP In-memory Appliance platform, one of the earlier names.
The hardware key, let’s paste that in from the clipboard.
Quantity: 64 Gigabytes.
Valid for 18 months.
OK —Now click Generate, and here we have our license.
We can send it by mail or download it to our computer.
I will use Download.
Now we can switch to the HANA Cockpit again.
Let’s cancel this, and select the dots here, and select Upload New License.
Select the license key file.
HA0.txt.
Upload License.
License Key installed.
Very good.
Here we have our new license.
This time, the type is permanent, 64GB, and when we take a look at the graph, we can see
that we are currently working well below the memory limit.
Issue solved.
Managing System Licenses is documented in the SAP HANA Administration with SAP HANA
Cockpit guide, directly accessible from the cockpit.
It is also documented in the SAP HANA Administration Guide, for both Cockpit and Studio, or even
SQL, you can do it in SQL as well, freely accessible from the SAP Help Portal on help.sap.com.
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