SPS 8.0 LTS Central Cluster Upgrade – Licensing Procedure

Hello everyone,

I'm preparing a production upgrade of a One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Central Cluster from 7.0.5.1 LTS to 8.0 LTS and would like to clarify the licensing procedure.

Our SPS deployment consists of three nodes:

  • Node 1: Managed Host + Search Minion
  • Node 2: Managed Host + Search Minion
  • Node 3: Central Management + Search Master

Based on the official SPS 8.0 LTS Upgrade Guide, the upgrade order is:

  1. Upgrade the Search Minion nodes.
  2. Upgrade the Central Management/Search Master node last.

The guide also states that a new 8.0 LTS license must be installed after upgrading, but I couldn't find any documentation describing how licensing is handled in a Central Cluster.

Could anyone clarify the following?

  1. Should the same 8.0 SPS license file be uploaded individually to each node after it has been upgraded?
  2. Or is it sufficient to install the license only on the Central Management/Search Master node, with the license being propagated automatically to the Search Minions?

If anyone has performed this upgrade or can point me to the relevant documentation, I would greatly appreciate your guidance.

Thank you in advance!