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How to check SAP HANA Hardware Key at OS level?

Requirement: We want to know the HARDWARE Key of our HANA system. Hardware
key is mandatory to request license key from SAP Marketplace.

Prerequisite:
 Database User: We need an HANA DB user with LICENSE ADMIN or CATALOG
READ or DATA ADMIN assigned.
 SID<ADM> credentials: To log into SAP HANA OS level we need sid<adm>
credentials.

Steps:
Logon to HANA host with <SID>adm user.
Once we are logged in as <SID>adm, we can directly execute the hdbsql command ,or
we can go to following path and execute the hdbsql command.
cd /hana/shared/<SID>/hdbclient

HDBSQL Command :
hdbsql -n localhost -i 00 -u HANADbUser -p yourUserPassword

Please note: In our case the system number is 00 , update the instance number
accordingly.
Now execute following SQL command to get the HARDWARE key.

SQL Command: "SELECT * from M_LICENSE" ;

Output :
HARDWARE_KEY,SYSTEM_ID,INSTALL_NO,SYSTEM_NO,PRODUCT_NAME,PRODUCT_LIMIT
,PRODUCT_USAGE,START_DATE,EXPIRATION_DATE,LAST_SUCCESSFUL_CHECK,PERMAN
ENT,VALID,ENFORCED,LOCKED_DOWN,MEASUREMENT_XML
"X0891103253","HDB","unknown","unknown","SAP-
HANA",0,22,?,?,?,"FALSE","FALSE","FALSE","TRUE",""

Highlighted in green is the Hardware key.

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