Temporary license key creation after a hardware exchange

[benoit-schmid]

Good morning,

We are running an ECC 6.07 with kernel 745, Patch 500, Non-Unicode on Linux 64bit.

It is running on a an UCS with all it disks attached on SAN (no local disk & boot on san).

We are going to shutdown the machine and start it in another building on another UCS host.

Therefore the hardware key will change.

After reading the note 2413104, I understand that a temporary license key will be generated automatically.

If that is the case I can run my ECC on the other UCS host without doing anything.

The temporary hardware key is valid 90 days.

Have I well understood?

Has any of you performed such hardware swap?
If yes which problems have you faced?

Have a good day and thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

[patelyogesh · Accepted solution]

Hello Benoît Schmid,

You are right, TEMP key will be auto generated. Its better to apply for permanent license if you want to run this system for long time.

-Yogesh

[isaias_freitas]

Hello Benoît,

I believe that you will not see the temp license before starting SAP.

SAP must be started and it would generate the temp license at its startup.

What you could do is to start the ASCS instance only (if the system has one).

You will see the hardware key of the new server at the beginning of the "dev_ms" trace file.

You can then logon to the SAP LaunchPad and generate the new license.

Thus, when you start SAP, you can immediately logon and apply the new license.

In case something goes wrong and the temp license is not created, you would have 30 minutes to logon and apply the new license.

If the new license is not installed by then, SAP shuts down. You can then simply start it again and you will have 30 minutes more to install the license.

Cheers!

Isaías

[benoit-schmid]

Hello,

You are right.

When I started the DB and not SAP. The temporary license had not been created.

After starting SAP, it had been created automatically.

Regards,

[benoit-schmid]

Hello Yogesh,

If I run the following command, before starting SAP, with the DB running, should I see the temp key?

saplikey pf=SID_DVEBMGS00_hostname -show

Regards,