HP XP Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 19)

Related Topics
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“HP XP7 Performance Advisor licenses” (page 22)
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“Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” (page 30)
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“Instant-on license on HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation” (page 19)
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“Instant-on license expiration” (page 20)
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“Grace period expiration” (page 21)
Instant-on license on HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation
The Instant-on license or the trial license is provided with every instance of HP XP7 Performance
Advisor. By default, this license is automatically enabled when you install HP XP7 Performance
Advisor. The following are important notes on the Instant-on license:
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It is either valid for a period of 120 days from the day you install HP XP7 Performance Advisor
or until the time you generate, and install a new license for one or more monitored XP or XP7
disk arrays. It cannot be generated from the HPAC license key website. For more information
on adding licenses, see
“Installing licenses” (page 31) .
Consider
the following example, where HP XP7 Performance Advisor is installed on 20th
Aug'09
and monitoring five arrays (combination of XP and XP7 disk arrays). The Instant-on
license
is enabled on the same date and valid until the 19th Dec'09. If you add two more XP
disk
arrays on 31st Aug'09 for which configuration data is collected, the XP disk arrays are
still
monitored in the current Instant-on license mode only. The Instant-on duration of 120
days
is not calculated separately for the additional two XP disk arrays.
NOTE: The term, monitored XP or XP7 disk arrays, refers to those XP or XP7 disk arrays for
which at least one round of configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP or XP7 disk arrays refers to those XP or XP7 disk arrays for which
configuration data collection is not yet performed.
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It is applicable across all the XP and the XP7 disk arrays that are monitored by the current
instance of HP XP7 Performance Advisor. It is not bound to a specific XP or XP7 disk array.
During the Instant-on license period, HP XP7 Performance Advisor can monitor unlimited
internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and usable capacities of multiple XP7
disk arrays. You can perform all tasks on the XP and the XP7 disk arrays that HP XP7
Performance Advisor supports, such as configuration and performance data collection,
generating reports and charts to view the associated components performance.
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It facilitates HP XP7 Performance Advisor to collect data for all the monitored XP and XP7 disk
arrays. It also allows you to perform new configuration data collection, so that HP XP7
Performance Advisor can monitor additional internal raw disk capacities of the XP disk arrays
and usable capacities of the P9500 disk arrays.
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You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP or XP7 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, HP XP7 Performance Advisor switches over to
the grace period of 60 days for that XP or XP7 disk array.
Instant-on license activation
HP XP7 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 HP XP7 Performance Advisor and click Monitoring
in the left pane):
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