Instant-on license expiration – HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual
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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 HP XP7
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 XP7 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” (page 20)
and
.
Related Topics
•
“Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” (page 30)
•
“Installing licenses” (page 31)
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 XP7 disk arrays, HP XP7 Performance Advisor does the following:
◦
It
initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the monitored XP and XP7 disk arrays. During
the
grace period, you can monitor unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP
disk
arrays and usable capacities of multiple XP7 disk arrays. You can also perform all
the
HP XP7 Performance Advisor related operations on the XP and the XP7 disk arrays.
It
includes collecting the configuration data for additional internal raw disk capacities
on
the XP disk arrays or usable capacities on the XP7 disk arrays. The configuration
data
collection is possible only until the date, the current grace period is valid. After the
grace
period expires, you cannot perform new configuration data collection on any of the
monitored
XP and XP7 disk arrays, for which Permanent licenses are not installed.
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The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each XP or XP7 disk array
record:
Table 2
Description
Screen elements
Displays the type of the XP/XP7 disk array that is
being monitored by HP XP7 Performance Advisor.
Hardware Platform
Displays the serial number of the XP/XP7 disk array.
Serial Number
Displays the total internal raw disk capacity of an XP
disk array or the usable capacity of a P9500 disk
array.
Array Capacity (TB)
Displays the capacity as 0.
License Capacity (TB)
Displays the status as Expired.
License Status
Displays the end date of the grace period.
End Date
Displays the following status message:
Comments
No License Installed. Grace Period expire on month,
day, year. Please purchase the required Performance
Advisor licenses now to continue using Performance
Advisor on this Array.
Where, month, day, year refers to the date till when
the grace period is valid.
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Managing licenses for XP and XP7 disk arrays