HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96322, August 2011)

Instant-on license activation
P9000 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 on to P9000 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 you install P9000
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 P9000 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” on page 25 and “Grace period
expiration” on page 27.
Related Topics
• “Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” on page 36
• “Installing licenses” on page 37
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 P9000 disk arrays, P9000 Performance Advisor does the following:
• It initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the monitored XP and P9000 disk arrays. During
the grace period, you can monitor unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP disk
arrays and usable capacities of multiple P9000 disk arrays. You can also perform all the
P9000 Performance Advisor related operations on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays. It includes
collecting the configuration data for additional internal raw disk capacities on the XP disk arrays
or usable capacities on the P9000 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 P9000 disk arrays,
for which Permanent licenses are not installed.
• The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each XP or P9000 disk array
record:
DescriptionScreen elements
Displays the type of the XP or the P9000 disk array that is being monitored
by P9000 Performance Advisor.
Hardware Platform
Displays the serial number of the XP or the P9000 disk array.Serial Number
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