Like all SAP products,we need an valid license to run SAP HANA for production systems.
SAP HANA licenses
are of following types:
- Temporary
- Permanent - Enforced and Unenforced
Permanent: SAP
provides this license upon request , this is a permanent license(no expiry
date) and can also be granted till
certain duration. Once this period is
over the license will get expired and a temporary license will be installed
automatically for 28 grace period.
Permanent license
are of two types:
Enforced: HANA
license are based on the memory usage, for example you can install a 1 TB
memory HANA system but can only license it for 256 GB usage. If the system
usage is increased over licensed amount then the system will locked down if the
license is "Enforced".
Unenforced: The
system will issue a warning upon over usage of SAP HANA licensed memory amount
but it will not get locked down.
How to check SAP HANA license?
Requirement: You
want to check SAP HANA license validity in SAP HANA system.
Prerequisite: We
need database user with LICENSE ADMIN system privilege assigned.
Steps:
Connect to the
required system via HANA Studio
Open
Administration perspective, You
can open it from Window > Open > Perspective > Administration
Console
In Administration
perspective ,open the context menu(shown below) and select
"Properties".
Now , select
"License" in following screen and you will see the license and system
information.
Above information
can also be retrieved by executing following query.
SELECT * FROM
"SYS"."M_LICENSE";
How to check if the installed HANA license is enforced
or unenforced ?
Execute following
query and if the "Enforced" column value is "False" then
your license is not enforced.
SELECT
EXPIRATION_DATE,ENFORCED,PERMANENT,LOCKED_DOWN FROM
"SYS"."M_LICENSE";
SAP Note# 1644792 - License key/installation of SAP HANA platform edition