HP StorageWorks XP Performance Advisor Software v4.6 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96094, June 2010)

• “Viewing aggregate License status” on page 33
• “Viewing status for individual licenses” on page 33
• “Removing licenses” on page 35
Related Topics
See the following related topics:
• “Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” on page 29
• “Receiving a registration number for XP Performance Advisor” on page 29
• “Instant-on license expiration” on page 27
• “Grace period expiration” on page 28
• “Instant-on license on XP Performance Advisor installation” on page 26
• “Generating licenses” on page 31
• “License capacity” on page 34
Instant-on license on XP Performance Advisor installation
The Instant-on license or the trial license is provided with every instance of XP Performance Advisor.
By default, this license is automatically enabled when you install XP Performance Advisor v4.6.
Following are important notes on the Instant-on license:
• It is valid for a period of 120 days (from the day you install XP Performance Advisor) or until the
time you generate, and install a new license on XP Performance Advisor, for one or more monitored
XP arrays. For more information on adding licenses, see “Installing licenses” on page 32. For
example, if you installed XP Performance Advisor on 20th Aug’09, the Instant-on license is also
enabled on the same date and it is valid until the 19th Dec’09. If XP Performance Advisor is
monitoring five XP arrays in the Instant-on license mode and you added two more XP arrays on
31st Aug’09 for which configuration collection is performed, they 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 arrays.
NOTE:
The term, monitored XP arrays refers to those XP arrays for which at least one round of
configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP arrays refers to those XP arrays for which configuration data collection
is not yet performed.
• It is not bound to a specific XP array and is applicable across all XP arrays that are monitored by
the current instance of XP Performance Advisor. During the Instant-on license period, XP Performance
Advisor can monitor any number of XP arrays for unlimited raw disk capacities. You can perform
all the tasks on XP arrays that XP Performance Advisor supports, like configuration and performance
data collection, generating reports and charts to view the associated resources performance.
• It cannot be generated from the HPAC license key website. It is available by default when you
install XP Performance Advisor v4.6 or later version.
• It facilitates XP Performance Advisor to collect data for all monitored XP arrays. It also allows you
to perform new configuration data collection, so that XP Performance Advisor can monitor addi-
tional raw disk capacities for your XP arrays.
• You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP array during the Instant-on period.
After the configuration collection is performed and the Instant-on period expires, and there is no
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