SAP software measurement reports in 10 easy steps

Website design By BotEap.comIt’s quite understandable that you’ve had a hard time making the decision to purchase SAP software considering the cost and renewal of the business under the system. Then, after many months of planning and implementation, finally GoLive and trying to find some space to relax. But, before long, almost a calendar year goes by, so here comes the annual SAP official license audit. You will start receiving emails from SAP audit team members to complete reports by a certain date. You’re not really ready for all these metrics to count so soon. But since you have already signed the agreement with SAP, you need to do these steps in due time. So, soon you will start working with some new terms like USMM, SLAW, etc.

Website design By BotEap.comSo what is USMM?

Website design By BotEap.comUSMM is the Tcode for the measurement program. By using this tool, you can determine the license ranking of all users based on their purchased SAP application and also the number of powered engines on each system. You can then transfer the report online, directly to SAP.

Website design By BotEap.comNow, what is the RIGHT?

Website design By BotEap.comLAW stands for License Management Workbench, although it sounds a bit difficult. Tcode to run this tool is SLAW. You can consolidate measurement reports from each system using this program and send them directly to SAP.

Website design By BotEap.comSo, are you ready to prepare your first measurement reports? You surely are. Before proceeding to USMM, you should consider the following points:

Website design By BotEap.com– Check in SAP Service Market Place that you have all valid system installations. Remove any unused or invalid installation without the proper license.

– Consult in SAP Market Place -> Data administration -> System data

– Make sure you are the person authorized to do so, duly assigned by your company.

– Check your authorization profile on each system, that it has the proper authorization to run USMM.

– Measurements should be done for production, development, and test systems, which means you should exclude IDES (training) systems and any backup systems.

– Prepare your metering plan according to your Contract number, Facility/Customer number and System ID.

– Consult with your regional SAP LAW team for all types of assistance. Yes, they are available and very helpful in the matter, no doubt.

Website design By BotEap.comMeasurement procedure of the SAP System in Development Systems:

Website design By BotEap.com1. Run the transaction code USMM.

2. Select the ABAP DEV Client ON Clients tab.

3. Go to the Price Lists tab and select the applicable price list based on your contract.

4. Select User Types. SAP Application Developer (CA) and Test (91).

5. On the Addresses tab, enter the sender’s name and the recipient’s name.

6. Now the most important part, User Ranking. Run the query by clicking on ‘User Classification’ (Shift+F6). Enter the ABAPer client and run (F8). This will display a list of all users based on the license. Select SAP/ABAPer Application Developer(s) based on your ABAP Developer license number(s) and assign all other users as user type ‘Trial’. Make sure the ‘Verified User Type’ fully matches the ‘Manual User Type’. If you find any discrepancies, reclassify by selecting all users that don’t match and click ‘Sort Selected Users’ (Shift+F1). Select Contract User Type from the dropdown menu and click the Save icon (Ctrl+S). Then run the query again to verify that the ranking of all users is accurate. Now go back to the main USMM screen (F3).

7. As it looks like you’ve set the parameters correctly, now it’s time to run the main query, the ‘System Measurement’, click or just press F8. It will take around 5-15 minutes to complete all the background worker processes, depending on your system and the number of users. So, just sit back and have a cup of coffee in the meantime.

8. Check in the ‘Measurement Statistics’ that all data is in accordance with your settings.

9. Click ‘Comments’, if you want to send a Memo to SAP along with the measurements.

10. Finally, send your online measurement results to SAP by clicking ‘Send to SAP’ or just press F10.

Website design By BotEap.comNow make sure your SAP router is up to complete the online report transfer. You can check the transfer process online using the tcode SDCC or, SDCCN, will be discussed later. In case of LAW consolidation, export the measurement report. Go to the top horizontal menu, System measurement -> Export to LAW file (Ctrl+F10). Then, from Data Transfer Selection, select ‘To download to file’ and click run (F8). Save the txt file on your computer for later import into the LAW consolidation. You can also transfer by choosing RFC to LAW Center or by email, but actually downloading as txt file is the easiest way to proceed.

Website design By BotEap.comNow that you’ve done the hard work, wait for your SAP license auditor to get back to you via email. They will propose specific suggestions if you need any correction in the selection or reclassification of users. If required, submit any system measurement report by the same means as above as many times as requested by the Licensing Auditor. Do not save any pending reports, otherwise your audit will not be closed for that year. In the next response from SAP, you will receive an email about ‘Verification of measurement reports’. You only need to verify the accuracy of the measurement results and thus confirm in response to obtain the final audit certification.

Website design By BotEap.comDetails of SAP software license auditing and system metering activities in a live production system are available at http://www.saphome.com