HANA1909 trial, expired Maintenance_HDB key

[abo]

In HANA 1909 trial edition the SLICENSE transaction shows the following:

Obvious question first: should I care about the expired license?

Deeper question: what is it required for?

I know the currently valid one will soon expire and that one will have to be replaced for sure, I have already gone through it once already.

[LaurensDeprost]

Hi Andrea,

IMO you should not care about the expired maintenance license.

Normally, the 'Maintenance_HDB' maintenance license is required for system maintenance-related operations like downloading updates & support packages (think of transactions SUM/Software Update Manager or SPAM/Support Package Manager). For future updates of the trial/developer system you simply have to switch to a more recent release.

See SAP Note 1898812 - How to renew a Maintenance Certificate or remove duplicates.

[abo]

Thank you for the detailed explanation, I fully agree about switching instead of upgrading!

I happened to run SLICENSE in A4H because NPL had expired and I got curious about the other system.