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Licensing power management systems, Purchasing additional insight control licenses, Managing insight control license keys – HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual

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NOTE:

c-Class enclosures and PDUs do not require an Insight Control license to enable the power

management application.

5.

Using Insight managed system setup wizard. If managed system setup wizard is available on HP Systems
Insight Manager CMS, you may optionally use this wizard to automate and advise on the setup steps
for power management. After discovering the systems, select the systems with which power management
is to be used and then open the wizard from Configure

HP Insight managed system setup wizard.

Then, navigate to the Insight Control collection and select the desired power management features.

6.

Start using HP Insight Control power management. After completing the above tasks, power management
will start collecting the power information. To start using power management, see

Using power

management with Systems Insight Manager

for a list of tasks that you can perform and links to those

help topics.

Licensing power management systems

Insight Control licenses and iLO 2 Advanced or iLO 2 Select licenses are required to be applied to the
systems and the

Integrated Lights-Out

(iLO 2) respectively in order to operate on systems.

NOTE:

Insight Control licenses are not required to view monitor, analyze, and report Integrity servers,

c-Class enclosures, racks, and power delivery devices.

Purchasing additional Insight Control licenses

Insight Control licenses can be purchased from the following:

HP configure to order

HP Software Depot

HP Small and Medium Business (SMB) Store

HP resellers

To purchase licenses:

1.

Navigate to

http://www.hp.com/go/ipm

.

2.

Click Buy to access the SMB store.

3.

Click How to buy for instructions about purchasing licenses for Insight Control through the following
SKU:

HP Insight Control.

Insight Control SKU includes licenses for the HP Insight Control server deployment,

HP Insight Control server migration, HP Insight Control virtual machine management, HP Insight Control
power management, HP Insight Control performance management, and HP Insight Control remote
management.

Managing Insight Control license keys

NOTE:

The following procedure assumes you have already installed Systems Insight Manager.

To use License Manager to manage keys:

1.

Select Deploy

License Manager. The following information is displayed for each licensed product:

Product

. The name of the product.

Licensed Systems

. The number of systems licensed to use the product.

Licenses (Select 'Manage Licenses' for detail)

. The total number of licenses in the License

Manager database for the product.

2.

Click Add Licenses. The Add License section appears.

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