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

valid license installed, XP Performance Advisor switches over to the grace period of 60 days for
that XP array.
Instant-on license activation
XP 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 first when you log into XP Performance Advisor):
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 XP Performance Advisor
v4.6 is installed.
Every day, a status message on the number of remaining Instant-on days is displayed under Comments
in the View License Status section against each XP 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” on page 27 and “Grace period expiration” on page 28.
Related Topics
See the following related topics:
• “Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” on page 29
• “Installing licenses” on page 32
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 arrays, XP Performance Advisor does the following:
• It initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the monitored XP arrays. During the grace period,
you can monitor any number of XP arrays for unlimited raw disk capacities. You can also
perform all the XP Performance Advisor related operations on the XP arrays, which includes
collecting configuration data for the additional internal raw disk capacities on your XP arrays.
This is possible only until the date the current grace period is valid. After the grace period ex-
pires, you cannot perform new configuration data collection on any of the monitored XP arrays,
for which Permanent licenses are not installed.
• The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each XP array record:
DescriptionScreen elements
Displays the type of XP array that is being monitored by XP Performance
Advisor.
Hardware Platform
Displays the serial number of the XP array.Serial Number
Displays the total internal raw disk capacity on the XP array.
XP Performance Advisor receives accurate internal raw disk capacity
(same as shown by RWC) from the XP Disk Array, when you perform the
Outband mode of configuration data collection.
Array Capacity (TB)
Displays the capacity as 0.License Capacity (TB)
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