Assigning and un-assigning licenses, Assigning a license – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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System license information reporting
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Licensing with ProLiant Essentials applications
Assigning and un-assigning licenses
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) enables you to assign and unassign product licenses for plugins,and
to assign (copy) licenses to remote target systems when licenses are managed remotely. For plugins, when
assigning licenses, note the following:
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When a license is assigned to a system, it is not bound or consumed until the product operates on that
system.
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A system can be licensed with a demo key just once. If the license expires, the only option to continue
to use the system with that product is to purchase a license. A system licensed by a demo key can be
relicensed at any time with a paid license.
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An assigned license can be unassigned from one system and assigned to another system, as long as
the product enabled by the license has not consumed the license. Once a product has been used on
a system, the license is bound (locked) to that system permanently. Licenses delivered directly to the
actual target system cannot be unassigned. There is no penalty in having these licenses remain on those
systems because they are consumed on an as-needed basis. The remaining licenses can be used
elsewhere.
Assigning a license
1.
Select Deploy
→License Manager.
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Select a product and click Manage Licenses. The Licenses Currently Available are displayed.
3.
Select the License Category you want to assign, and click Assign Licenses. The Assign Licenses
section appears.
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Select target systems and click Apply . See
for more information. The Verify target
systems
section appears.
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Add or remove target systems by clicking the Add Targets or Remove Targets buttons.
6.
Click Next.
For products where licensing information is managed by HP SIM, the Assigning Licenses page
appears. This page lists the selected system's name, licensing status, operating system, system type and
IP address. Select one or more systems from this list and click Assign License Now. The page refreshes
and shows the updated license status. Select additional systems to make more assignments, or re-select
License Manager to refresh the page. To remove an assigned license, re-select Manage Licenses, the
license category, and then select Un-Assign Licenses.
For products that require the license to be delivered to the actual target, the License Assignment
Results
table appears in a separate window and reports the status of the assignment process for each
target. There might be a delay in sending license data to some targets. You can continue with other HP
SIM activities during the license assignment process. The results window shows the following information:
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System Name
. The names of the systems on which the task was executed.
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Key
. The license keys sent to the target systems. Each key is listed on a separate line. License
details are contained within the key, and each key might enable more than one product.
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Product
. The name of the product associated with the use of this key.
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Response Status
. The status of the request to send license data to the selected system. If the task
was successful, the following message appears: License assignment successful.
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