HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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• Setting disk thresholds
• Creating a task
• Scheduling a task
• Running a scheduled task
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License manager
License Manager enables you to view and manage product licenses within the HP Systems Insight Manager
(HP SIM) user interface. This release supports only ProLiant Essentials licensing.
NOTE: To run License Manager, you must have administrative rights on the Central Management Server
(CMS) (to set, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→User) and the All Tools toolbox
(to set, select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations).
See “Users and user groups” and “Toolboxes” for more information.
Licenses can be viewed and assigned to specified target systems known to HP SIM. For some products, the
licenses are actually sent to the specified system and in the License Manager database, while for other
products, the licensing information is updated in the License Manager database only. The installed licenses
can be viewed by product name. New licenses can be added individually or added in bulk from a file.
License Manager includes license information for management processors such as Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
systems. You can manage all aspects of iLO2 licensing using the License Manager menu Graphical User
Interface (GUI) including deploying license keys to iLO and collecting licensing information from iLO. Not
all servers can communicate with iLO at this time.
License Manager's Manage Licenses, Assign Licenses, Un-Assign Licenses, and Collect License
Info features operate directly on the License Manager database. Some products manage licenses locally
on the target system in the Windows registry. In these cases, license information is collected directly from
those targets using DCOM and placed in the License Manager database. Collect License Info will also
collect licensing information directly from the selected target system if the target is an ILO using SSH. When
using Collect License Info, License Manager will understand the correct mechanism to use to collect
licensing information automatically.
Apart from early versions of HP Performance Management Pack (PMP) plug-in, all license information for
HP SIM plug-ins is maintained by License Manager in the HP SIM database. For some products, the license
is stored in a licensing structure in the Windows registry on the licensed system. License Manager employs
Microsoft's remote registry Application Programming Interfaces (API) over the Microsoft Distributed COM
(DCOM) protocol to assign licenses to and collect license information from, those remote systems. License
information is duplicated in the HP SIM database, but the licenses are managed directly on those systems
by the product and must be periodically collected to keep this information current. Authentication credentials
for the specified systems are needed only in those situations in which licenses are sent to the specified system.
If WBEM authentication credentials have been provided for a specific target, these credentials are used.
See “Setting protocols and credentials for a system or groups of systems” for more information. If specific
credentials have not been provided, each set of Web-Based Enterprise Services (WBEM) credentials provided
as global credentials are used in turn. See “Setting global protocols” for more information. If no credentials
are provided, the connection is attempted using the default credentials of the HP SIM server. The remote
registry service must be started and run on candidate target systems for key collection or assignment.
Communication with iLO uses the HP SIM provided SSH channel. You will need to provide the SSH username
and password for each individual iLO. If the user name and password are common to a group of iLO's, the
username and password can be defined for the group.
License Manager does not permanently bind (or apply) a product license to a system. Users can assign and
un-assign licenses as needed.
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