HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide
Collect Remote License Info...
Collect Remote License Info (for management processors) collects licenses using an HTTP based
protocol which does not require credentials.
When collecting remote licenses, be aware of the following:
• Automatic collection of management processor licenses is not supported.
• You do not have support or upgrade options by default. After July 9, 2007, all license keys
are included in one year of 24 x 7 Software Technical Support and Update Service. The
License Manager informs you which license keys are "support and update enabled" and which
license keys require the purchase of future updates and upgrades.
Collect Remote License Info (for servers) collects license details from selected targets. If licenses are
stored on the selected system (for details, see the specific product information), the selected machine
must be running a variant of Microsoft Windows.
Assign License(s)...
HP SIM enables you to assign and un-assign product licenses for plug-ins, if applicable for that
plug-in, and to assign licenses to remote target systems when licenses are managed remotely. For
plug-ins, when assigning licenses, note the following for non-management processor targets:
• When a license is assigned to a system, it is not locked or consumed until the product operates
on that system.
• A system can be licensed with a demo key just once. If the license expires, the only option to
continue to use the system with that product is to purchase a license. A system licensed by a
demo key can be relicensed at any time with a paid license.
• An assigned license can be unassigned from one system and assigned to another system, as
long as the product enabled by the license has not consumed the license. When a product
has been used on a system, the license is locked to that system permanently. Licenses delivered
directly to the actual target system cannot be unassigned. There is no penalty for having these
licenses remain on those systems because they are consumed on an as-needed basis. The
remaining licenses can be used elsewhere.
Some products limit the use of the License Manager interface because target filtering and other
factors must be considered and these are not known to the HP SIM License Manager. Consequently,
Manage Licenses... may be selected, however Assign/Un-assign might be disabled.
For management processor targets:
• When a license is assigned to a management processor, a license record is created and
stored in the License Manager database.
• If the selected management processor is already licensed, you cannot replace that license
with a new license from License Manager. You must first delete the existing license at the
management processor console and then insert the new license (directly or using License
Manger). However, Integrity MP does replace a demo key with a permanent license. If a
permanent key is already present, Integrity MP displays a message such as License already
Installed.
• An assigned license cannot be unassigned from one management processor and assigned to
another management processor. Licenses delivered directly to the actual target system cannot
be unassigned because the behavior of the product operating with that license is outside the
scope of License Manager.
When assigning licenses to management processor targets, the SSH credentials for each target
must be known. When deploying licenses to remote servers, the access credentials must be known.
For more information, see Protocol settings.
See Assigning a license or Apply a license
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