Gateway license utililization

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I've seen several inquiries here and elsewhere about the licensing model for Gateway (basically, an annual per-usage pricing agreement).  As it has been explained to me, a usage consists of any service call into Gateway coming from the consumer of the RESTful service.  My question is:  Where / how do I obtain a measure of the service call consumption, in aggregate and per application?  This is important as we decide the feasibility of expanding the suite of applications making use of our Gateway platform.

Thanks in advance,

-- Chris

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

It took some time for me to obtain the access I needed (especially in Prod environment), but the following information from SAP was helpful.  Particularly useful to me is the data stored in table /IWFND/L_METAGR:

For all requests coming to Gateway system, Gateway logs some details in the metering related table and the table name is: /IWFND/L_MET_COL. You will be able to see these details by running report /IWFND/R_METERING_VIEW.

Gateway also provides another report: /IWFND/R_METERING_AGGREGATE which will take the aggregated details from table /IWFND/L_MET_COL into other tables (/IWFND/L_MET_AGR, /IWFND/L_METAGR, /IWFND/D_MET_AGR).

/IWFND/R_METERING_CRT_JOBS report can be used to schedule above aggregation report as a batch job. Also report /IWFND/R_METERING_DELETE can be used to delete old metering information from Gateway tables.

[martin_bachmann]

Hello,

not sure if you all have seen this, but you can now also purchase SAP NetWeaver Gateway via the SAP Store (store.sap.com -> search for 'Gateway').

As all named SAP users (Business Professional User, Limited, ...) already have Gateway usage rights today, here additional users can be purchased, that can only access the SAP Business Suite via Gateway / OData.  

For anonymous access the 'Consumer Access' option is available, which is measured by calls (the other options - named users - are not measured by calls).

And yes, the license audit is involved.

Martin

[Former Member]

Martin,

I could not find an information that all named SAP users already have Gateway usage rights included anywhere. Could you please tell me where I can lookup this?

Thanks

Michele

[UweFetzer_se38]

Just a guess: maybe it's part of the license audit.

[Former Member]

Update:  Seeing no response here I have opened Customer Message 0000355330 2013 to formally request "how-to" information.

[Former Member]

Hi Chris,

Please update with was reply have you been received from OSS message.

Thanks,

Nikunj Thaker