21 license manager – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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21 License Manager
License Manager enables you to view and manage product licenses within the Systems Insight Manager
user interface. To access additional information about Updates, Upgrades, and Technical support, contact
your HP services or HP partner representative or access the IT Resource Center (ETC) at
NOTE:
To run License Manager, you must have
on the CMS (to set, select
Options
→Security→Users and Authorizations→User) and choose the Configure CMS Security option,
and the All Tools toolbox (to set, select Options
→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations)
on the managed systems that you want to license.
You can view and associate licenses to specified target
discovered by Systems Insight Manager. A
product may use artificial systems to contain licenses. Therefore, you may see names of non-existent systems.
System licenses can be reviewed by product. Licenses can be associated with specific systems. Licenses can
be collected and deployed to management processors. New licenses can be added individually or in bulk
from a file. License Manager database tables are updated and synchronized daily at midnight or at Systems
Insight Manager startup, and expired license information is sent to registered plug-ins.
For some products, License Manager only permits users to review system licenses, available licenses, and
add licenses. For other products, License Manager allows association of licenses with systems selected by
the user. The association of the license is dependent on the particular product. For some products, licenses
can be freely associated with selected systems and those associations can be changed. However, in most
cases the license is locked to the system once it is used with the product. Once locked, associations can no
longer be changed. For other products, the product association is permanent once made in License Manager.
Finally, some products allow License Manager to manage their licenses entirely such that selection and
licensing systems is final. The distinction between these latter modes is that associations may be changed if
the user options include Assign / Un assign and are final if there is one option, Apply.
License Manager includes functionality to collect and deploy licenses with most management processors.
The License Manager core establishes and maintains a secure communication channel for license deployment
with the management processor through two options provided by Systems Insight Manager, SSL and Secure
Shell (SSH). Both, SSL and SSH meet the requirements for a secure channel. If the target systems are
management processors, the management processor must support SSH and you must provide the required
credentials. An SSH based solution uses CLO. All management processor firmware releases include support
for SSH/CLP. ProLiant SSH/CLP support is included in v1.70 or later of the management processor firmware.
Integrity SSH/CLP support is included in management processor firmware. All management processors can
be updated to this version or later. The license collection uses an HTTP based mechanism and operates
without credentials. Management processor firmware in many instances allows the user to define if license
information is available on demand using this mechanism.
Table 21-1 Supported hardware for Integrity management processor license collections
Firmware support
Server type
Product name
Hardware
F.02.19 or greater
Rack
Merlin
rx2660
F.02.19 or greater
Rack
Ruby
rx3600
F.02.19 or greater
Rack
Sapphire
rx6600
T.03.07 or greater
Blade
Tahiti
BL860c
T.03.07 or greater
Blade
Barbara
BL870c
NOTE:
The new management processor license collection is supported on management processor and
management processor devices. Deployment is supported on management processor and management
processors with newer firmware versions.
In some instances, licenses are managed and controlled by the licensed system (remote licensing). In this
case, License Manager provides the facility to collect and deploy licenses to those systems. For
non-management processor systems, communication used is a Microsoft COM mechanism.
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