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Change in hardware key on new installation with same SID

Former Member
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Dear Experts,

Background:

We installed SAP Netweaver 7.3 EHP1 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and applied SAP License on it.

So there was a specific SID, Hardware key and Installation No to our installation.

After few months our Server machine got crashed and we formatted it.

Problem:

Now we want to install SAP Netweaver 7.3 EHP1 again on same Server machine.

Here question is:

1. Will the Hardware Key be same if I install SAP Netweaver 7.3 EHP1 with the same SID as it was before ?

Note: We want to apply the same license that was there before the crash. But we can apply same license if and only if after installing with same SID as before, system generates the same Hardware Key as before Crash !!

Other Information:

Information that we got from SAP Note (94998 - Requesting license keys and deleting systems ) that :

"  For the following data changes, you require a new license key:

Customer hardware key - database - installation number - system ID.

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Thanks in advance for your apt responses.

Muddassar Khan

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Former Member
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Hi Muddassar,

With OS reinstallation , the HW Key will change.

I suggest you apply for a new License with the new Hardware Key.

Was this a Test System??

You said after few Months , the system Crashed.

Have you taken a Backup (Windows System State) ??

Regards,

Ashish .A. Poojary

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From SAP Note 174911 - Determining the hardware key (customer key) :

"Only Windows uses a hardware key that does NOT depend on the hardware. A new installation of Windows definitely causes the hardware key to change."

AtulKumarJain
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Hi Muddassar,

Please check below command for hardware key

saplicense -get

it will provide the present hardware key for your system.

So you can compare the hardware key with old one.if both are same you can apply same license otherwise you have to request new license.

BR

Atul