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[SAP BTP Onboarding Series] SAP BTP – How to change your Global Account Name using SAP BTP CLI

How often have you seen name changes in your life, be it a person, company, or location?

We are focusing on one such assignment of Global Name which is assigned to a BTP Global Cockpit and you may want to change it. It could be that you were not aware during contract signing on the account name, or it no longer suits your projects, or due to an org/brand change, with this in mind, this blog is considering the option of changing our Global Account Name. In my case,

Existing name in my Global Account – SAP Internal – XXXXXXX

New Name – SAP BTP Onboarding CPEA

To achieve this, you would need to be a Global Administrator of the BTP Account, change the name directly from the Global Account Overview page or you can get started with the basics of SAP BTP Command Line Interface (BTP CLI). In case you do not have BTP CLI installed, you can refer to Get Started with the SAP BTP Command Line Interface (BTP CLI) which helps to understand the commands, or directly download the BTP CLI from SAP Development Tools. For demonstration, I am using windows version –

1. Download the BTP CLI tool to install in your local system

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I am using the “btp-cli-windows-amd64-x.xx.x.tar.gz” file and I have used an extractor to unzip the file.

2. Run Command prompt in administrator mode and navigate to the BTP extracted folder in cmd prompt [using the command “cd”]

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3. Login to BTP Global Account, use the following commands as shown below

  • > btp login
  • The CLI tool will by default connect to SAP BTP Cloud accounts. Press enter where you see the CLI Server URL.

Next, we should enter the Global account subdomain name as shown in your BTP Cockpit. In my case, its “sapinternalxxxxxxxxxx” and the Global Account name is “SAP Internal – xxxxxx which needs to be changed

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  • Enter the subdomain name and click enter
  • Next, you should enter your username and password
  • If login is successful, you should be able to set the current session target to your global account to work with it. The steps as shown below

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4. Once you log in, you can check the account information by using the command – btp get accounts/global-account

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5. Once we confirm the account details, the next step is to change the global account now. Use the following command

Syntax – btp update accounts/global-account –global-account SUBDOMAIN –display-name NAME –description DETAILS

You need to update the following details

  • SUBDOMAIN – Subdomain details in Global Account
  • NAME – your new global account Display Name
  • Details – description of your global account (optional, you can skip this if not required)

Here is the command which I have used and image 6 shows the details

btp update accounts/global-account –global-account sapinternal-xxxxxxx –display-name BTP-Onboarding-CPEA –description Onboarding

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6. Let us confirm whether the global account name has been changed successfully

Run the command – btp get accounts/global-account

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You can see that we have successfully changed the Global Account name and Description. The same is reflected in BTP Cockpit as shown below.

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Perhaps the easy way is to do it from the cockpit with two simple clicks, the idea of this blog is to demonstrate using BTP CLI. If you are looking for more options, you can refer to SAP Help Guides.

Regards,

Nagesh Caparthy

SAP BTP Onboarding Team

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      Author's profile photo Mustafa Bensan
      Mustafa Bensan

      Hi Nagesh,

      Perhaps I have misunderstood the intent of this blog post.  I am able to change the Global Account display name directly from the SAP BTP Cockpit as shown in the screenshots below:

      BTP Cockpit Account Explorer

       

      BTP Cockpit Global Account Name Change

      Author's profile photo Nagesh Caparthy
      Nagesh Caparthy
      Blog Post Author

      Thank you, Mustafa.

      It was more focused on CLI. Have edited my post.

      Regards,

      Nagesh

      Author's profile photo Mustafa Bensan
      Mustafa Bensan

      I asked the question because the post has stated "we need to install SAP BTP Command Line Interface (BTP CLI) as there is no provision to make changes to the Global Account name within the Cockpit."  I would have thought that for this particular scenario, it would be much easier and quicker to update in the Cockpit instead of the multiple steps required for the CLI.

      Author's profile photo Nagesh Caparthy
      Nagesh Caparthy
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Mustafa,

      That is correct, we do have the option of the BTP cockpit, and I missed adding them in the blog and wanted to help users to get started with CLI, and name changing was one of the first steps. I am re-writing some of the details in the blog to avoid confusion.

      Regards,

      Nagesh

      Author's profile photo Mustafa Bensan
      Mustafa Bensan

      On another note, for the same reasons you have stated above about org/brand changes, is there a away to also change the Global Account Subdomain?

      Author's profile photo Nagesh Caparthy
      Nagesh Caparthy
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Mustafa,

      As far as I am aware, there is no option to change the subdomain name for the Global Accounts and Subaccounts (documented here for the subaccount), let me check and get back to you for global accounts.

      Regards,

      Nagesh

      Author's profile photo Mustafa Bensan
      Mustafa Bensan

      Thanks Nagesh.  The ability to change the global account subdomain would definitely be a handy feature.

      Author's profile photo Nagesh Caparthy
      Nagesh Caparthy
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Mustafa,

      Just checked internally and found this Note: 3108996  and it confirms that we cannot change the Global Subdomain.

      Regards,

      Nagesh

      Author's profile photo Mustafa Bensan
      Mustafa Bensan

      Thanks for confirming, Nagesh.

      Regards,

      Mustafa.