Collecting license information – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual
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Eight types of licenses are available:
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Flexible Quantity. This license offers full, unlimited functionality for an unlimited time and for a specific
number of seats purchased, up to 50,000.
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Activation Key Agreement. This license offers full, unlimited functionality for an unlimited time. This
license represents an expected upper limit on the number of seats, up to 50,000.
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Subscription. This license is a time limited full functionality license. This key can indicate unlimited use
for a specified period of time or a limited number of seats for that same period of time. The basic time
unit encoded in the key is one month. HP SIM considers one month to be 30 days in length.
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Demo (seats and time). This license offers full, unlimited functionality for a limited time and a specific
number of seats. The license determines the number of days the key enables the product to function.
The days begin counting from the day of first use. The key can permit more than one instance of the
product to run. Demo keys can authorize up to 255 seats for up to 255 days.
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Demo. This license offers full, unlimited functionality for a limited time. The license determines the number
of days the key allows the product to function. The days begin counting from the day of first use. The
key can permit more than one instance of the product to run. Demo keys can authorize use for up to
65535 days.
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Beta. This license offers full, unlimited functionality for a limited time. The license determines the number
of days the key enables the product to function. The days begin counting from the day the key was
created. The key can permit more than one instance of the product to run. Demo keys can authorize
use for up to 65,535 days.
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Free Flexible Quantity. Some ProLiant Essentials products ship with some free, permanent licenses. This
key type is the embodiment of those free licenses. The number of licenses provided by this key depends
on the product. Keys of this type cannot be entered by the user into the License Manager database.
The product alone can insert these keys into the database.
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Evaluation. This license offers full, unlimited functionality and is distributed only in special circumstances.
License types reported by Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) products include:
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Intrinsic. This license offers full, unlimited functionality and represents a single-use key for the product.
This license type is specific to management processors.
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Individual. This license offers full, unlimited functionality and represents a single-use key for the product.
This license type is specific to management processors.
Some products now provide licenses to enable other products. The license keys generated by these products
cannot be manually added by the user.
Related procedures
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Collecting license information
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Assigning and un-assigning licenses
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Related topics
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System license information reporting
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Licensing with ProLiant Essentials applications
Collecting license information
Collect License Info
collects license details from the selected targets. If the licenses are stored directly on
the selected system (see the specific product information for details), the
(CMS)
and the selected machine must be running a variant of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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