Applying SAP Maintenance Certificate - SAP Note 1898812 How to Renew a maintenance certificate

 

As for SAP maintenance certificate are concern it's very important as if you are planning to update and software within SAP landscape and if your maintenance certificate are not updated, their error would pop up in the abap system hence causing issue.


You can easily request maintenace certificate or license key from SAP one launchpad under 

Application lifecycle management -> SAP Solution Manager -> Processes 7.2 -> Maintenance certiciate. 

The component name of Maintenance certificate in case if you run into issue and you plan to lodge a case with SAP then choose SV-SMG-LIC

Maintenance certificate is just ensuring customers with the right corresponding maintenance agreement are allowed to apply SPAM, SAINT, JSPM and etc..

Remember before you do import or Support packages ensure to apply maintenance certificate others standard error might pop up this is applicable to SPAM/SAINT version 0034.

You might not need to worry if you SAP product is running on SAP Netweaver 7.0 but if its higher then Maintenance certificate is required.

Validity of maintenance certificate is somewhat within 3 months.

As a rule of thumb to checkif you have maintenance certificate just execute t-code SLICENSE and check the New License to see if it displays infor such as Digital -signed License Keys.






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