HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.5 User Guide (T1789-96337, Februrary 2013)
Related Topics
• “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor licenses” (page 21)
• “Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” (page 29)
• “Instant-on license on HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation” (page 18)
• “Instant-on license expiration” (page 19)
• “Grace period expiration” (page 21)
Instant-on license on HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation
The Instant-on license or the trial license is provided with every instance of HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor. By default, this license is automatically enabled when you install HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor. The following are important notes on the Instant-on license:
• It is either valid for a period of 120 days from the day you install HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor or until the time you generate, and install a new license for one or more monitored
XP or P9000 disk arrays. It cannot be generated from the HPAC license key website. For more
information on adding licenses, see “Installing licenses” (page 30).
Consider the following example, where HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed on
20th Aug09 and monitoring five arrays (combination of XP and P9000 disk arrays). The
Instant-on license is enabled on the same date and valid until the 19th Dec09. If you add
two more XP disk arrays on 31st Aug09 for which configuration data is collected, the XP
disk arrays 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 disk arrays.
NOTE: The term, monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays, refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays
for which at least one round of configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP or P9000 disk arrays refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays for
which configuration data collection is not yet performed.
• It is applicable across all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that are monitored by the current
instance of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. It is not bound to a specific XP or P9000 disk
array. During the Instant-on license period, HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor can monitor
unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and usable capacities of
multiple P9000 disk arrays. You can perform all tasks on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays
that HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor supports, such as configuration and performance data
collection, generating reports and charts to view the associated components performance.
• It facilitates HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor to collect data for all the monitored XP and
P9000 disk arrays. It also allows you to perform new configuration data collection, so that
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor can monitor additional internal raw disk capacities of the
XP disk arrays and usable capacities of the P9500 disk arrays.
• You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP or P9000 disk array during
the instant-on period. After the configuration collection is performed, when the instant-on period
expires and a valid license is not yet installed, HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor switches
over to the grace period of 60 days for that XP or P9000 disk array.
Instant-on license activation
HP XP 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 when you log in to HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and click
Monitoring in the left pane):
18 Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays