HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 25)

NOTE:
The term, monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays, refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays for which
at least one round of configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP or P9000 disk arrays refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays for which
configuration data collection is not yet performed.
• It is applicable across all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that are monitored by the current in-
stance of P9000 Performance Advisor. It is not bound to a specific XP or P9000 disk array. During
the Instant-on license period, P9000 Performance Advisor can monitor unlimited internal raw disk
capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and usable capacities of multiple P9000 disk arrays. You
can perform all tasks on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that P9000 Performance Advisor sup-
ports, such as configuration and performance data collection, generating reports and charts to
view the associated components performance.
• It facilitates P9000 Performance Advisor to collect data for all the monitored XP and P9000 disk
arrays. It also allows you to perform new configuration data collection, so that P9000 Performance
Advisor can monitor additional internal raw disk capacities of the XP disk arrays and usable ca-
pacities of the P9500 disk arrays.
• You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP or P9000 disk array during the
instant-on period. After the configuration collection is performed, when the instant-on period expires
and a valid license is not yet installed, P9000 Performance Advisor switches over to the grace
period of 60 days for that XP or P9000 disk array.
Instant-on license activation
P9000 Performance Advisor indicates that the instant-on license is activated by displaying the following
status message in the top pane of the Dashboard screen and the License screen. (The Dashboard
screen appears when you log in to P9000 Performance Advisor and click Monitoring in the left pane):
The Performance Advisor trial license expire on month, day, year. Please
contact your HP Representative to purchase the requisite Performance
Advisor licenses to avoid disruption of Performance Advisor services.
Where, month, day, and year is calculated as 120 days from the date when you install P9000
Performance Advisor.
Every day, a status message on the number of remaining Instant-on days appears under Comments
in the View License Status section against each XP or P9000 disk array record for which a Permanent
license is not yet installed. For more information on the series of events that follow after an Instant-on
license expires, see “
Instant-on license expiration ” on page 25 and “ Grace period
expiration ” on page 27.
Related Topics
• “ Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website ” on page 36
• “ Installing licenses ” on page 37
Instant-on license expiration
The Instant-on license expires when one of the following conditions are met:
• The Instant-on license period of 120 days is over and Permanent license is not yet installed for
any of the monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays, P9000 Performance Advisor does the following:
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