SLAW tool

[pnagar]

Dear Experts,

I am having solman in my landscape then for license auditing do i still need to use slaw tool or is there anything alternative that i could manager from Solman as well.

Thanks & Regards.

[kaus19d · Accepted solution]

Hi pnagar,

Whichever system you consolidate the USMM reports, that is via LAW tool whether its your SOLMAN system or whichever your SAP ABAP system, like mentioned in below,

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/09/06/sap-users-usage-license-audit-slaw-using-law-tool-for-abap-systems-...

Thanks,

Kaushik

[pnagar · Accepted solution]

HI kaus19d,

I am ok with this blog but my question here is if we have solman system so could we use solman to use law tool and send data to sap for other ERP system as well. Is it possible or not ?

[kaus19d · Accepted solution]

Hi pnagar,

Did not catch your query properly. Will Try to explain. For example, in your organisation, you have a SOLMAN-Prod system, ECC-DEV, ECC-QA, ECC-PROD, GTS-DEV, GTS-PROD. So, now what you do is you login to the SOLMAN system production client & upload the xml file provided by SAP in that SOLMAN system SLAW or SLAW2 as per your version. After that you will be able to see which systems User-measurement details its asking in that LAW Tool in your SOLMAN system & accordingly you can upload based on the EULA your organisation made deal with SAP while purchasing the product

In case you are thinking that SOLMAN already has the managed system details in LMDB, so that it can automatically take out the details from the Managed system using a Metrics or a Job, unfortunately that is not possible. Also it makes sense, because say for you ECC-Dev system only the User with Application Development License is considered & rest you can convert the type to "Test" so like this you consolidate. So, you see for example in case any User has High Usage & the License details is set to Low, so you can exchange that User License details with another Higher-License User with less Usage. So, you would understand that this sort of Manipulation is not possible via SOLMAN. In case you have a CUA system, the User details change is in the CUA system. But then also as the User is doing activity in the managed system, so the USMM report generation is directly via that managed system Individually as far as I know.

Generally, a typical example is that, in a organisation, a Manager might have a Higher-License type as in Higher Rank in the organisation but he only logs in to the SAP system once a day to check the status or approve tasks & whereas the End-User working under him run various activities & therefore high usage but assigned License Type is lower as he has lower rank in the organisation, so in that case License type exchange can be done. So, its better to keep 1 of each License type free always, I would say that for any organisation. In this way you never cross the limit of EULA, even when you are changing License Type category

Hope this does clarify

Thanks,

Kaushik

[Thomas_Winkler]

Hi Prashant,

yes you can use SLAW in Solman - this is the recommended approach, because you'll have to all relevant systems the prepared RFC-connections (when managed system setup was done).

Another advantage is, with Solman 7.2 you'll have SLAW2 - nicer frontend, some more features, central management of all your users (when eg. CUA is running here), ...

And last but not least all SAP notes and SAP Backbone connection where also maintained here centrally.

Cheers Thomas

[pnagar]

Dear tommy_sta

Did you mean if we have solman then we can do everything from solman and there is no need to do anything from ERP productiona and Developement system?

[S_Sriram]

Hi

For SAP license auditing two tasks you have to carry out in your environment all DEV & prod systems collect the user data using the transaction code USMM & export in LAW format, then go to Solution manager using the transaction code SLAW import the all the user datas (DEV & Prod systems), consolidate all the user datas(DEV & PROD systems) check the finial report and then send the same to SAP.

Regards

Sriram

[Thomas_Winkler]

Hi Prashant,

yes this would be my best advice for you.

Little nice "sideeffects" with this scenario:

- For the license audit you'll need some notes for special engines - often you are not allowed to implement it, due codefreeze periodes, .... in the ERP production line ==> no problem in Solman

- Often there is a User mismatching in the different systems and their clients ==> no issue, when SAP CUA is running in an extra client in Solman - you'll get all Users organized (doublettes, ... ) can be managed.
Additional extra point: Usermanagement is centralized and only Useradmins and License responsible can do their work in a consolidated enviroment

Cheers Thomas