HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 128)

2. See License Type and License Messages to review the current status of licenses.
3. Register one or more licenses using one of these methods:
• Enter the license key manually
• Specify the license key file (recommended)
4. Click Save.
If you registered the license after you logged in, you must log out and then log in again for the
license to be enabled.
5. Confirm that the license is successfully registered by viewing the displayed message.
Checking license information
You can check license information and the license expiration date. All users can perform this task.
1. On the login window click Licenses. If you are already logged in, from the Help menu, select
About.
2. Check the license status displayed in License Type and License Messages.
TIP:
Clicking the license name link for each product allows you to check the storage capacity limit for each
license, and the license expiration date.
Information for checking the input history of license keys
To check the input history of license keys, log in to the management server as a user with Administrator
permissions in Windows, or as the root user in Linux, and check the information in the
licensehistory file (input history is stored for 90 days) located at
Installation-folder-for-P9000-Command-View-AE-Suite\Base\common\lic\hist
in Windows, and Installation-directory-for-P9000-Command-View-AE-Suite/Base/
common/lic/hist in Linux. The table below describes the history record items output to the
licensehistory file. The items are output separated by commas.
Table 12 Information for checking the input history of license keys
Description Output Item
Date and time (example: 2011/01/13 15:14:26) YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss
Time zone (example: TZ=GMT+09:00) TZ=time-zone
One of the following is output:
• add: A new license was added or a license was added when the
current license had expired.
• update: A license was added in an environment in which another li-
cense had already been registered.
• uninstall: A product was uninstalled.
• increase: A new meter-based term license was added.
• used: The used storage system capacity was checked in an environ-
ment in which a meter-based term license was registered.
• convert: The license information file was migrated.
Operation
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