APTARE IT Analytics Licensing Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.5)
  1. License installation and guidelines
    1.  
      License overview
    2.  
      Understanding licensing restrictions
    3.  
      Requesting a license key file
    4.  
      Install a license
    5. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run the License Summary report
      2.  
        Help About
      3.  
        View License Details
    6. Criteria to determine license limits
      1. Capacity Manager
        1.  
          Storage Array Capacity license criteria
        2.  
          Vendor-specific capacity license criteria
        3.  
          EMC Symmetrix Arrays
        4.  
          EMC CLARiiON Arrays
        5.  
          HDS Arrays
        6.  
          NetApp Arrays
      2. Backup Manager
        1.  
          Cohesity DataProtect
        2.  
          Commvault Simpana
        3.  
          EMC Avamar
        4.  
          EMC NetWorker
        5.  
          Generic backups
        6.  
          HP Data Protector
        7.  
          IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
        8.  
          NAKIVO Backup & Replication
        9.  
          Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        10.  
          Rubrik Cloud Data Management
        11.  
          Veeam Backup & Replication
        12.  
          Veritas Backup Exec
        13.  
          Veritas NetBackup
      3.  
        Fabric Manager
      4.  
        Replication Manager
      5.  
        Virtualization Manager
      6.  
        File Analytics
    7. Managing licenses
      1.  
        Managing objects collected from centralized systems
      2.  
        Managing directly probed enterprise objects
      3.  
        What happens to historical data?
      4.  
        Processes to manage license counts
      5.  
        Identify counted and excluded objects
    8.  
      View the current license
    9.  
      Delete clients
    10.  
      Expand your license configuration
    11.  
      Exclude objects from future data collections
    12. Configure the Data Collector policy to exclude the object
      1.  
        Example of configuring a Data Collector policy to exclude arrays
      2.  
        Add objects to the Object Exclusion Database table
    13.  
      Removing objects from the license count
    14.  
      Deleting objects using the Inventory List view
  2. License key utility
    1.  
      License key utility
    2.  
      License key procedure
  3. License management from command line
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Install a license on Microsoft Windows Portal platform
    3.  
      Install a license on Linux Portal platform
    4. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run report configuration utility
      2.  
        Run license verification utility
    5.  
      Removing a Portal license
  4. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      License install fails with 'License is already issued for another host' error

Understanding licensing restrictions

At login, the Portal may prompt with a message window similar to the following examples:

The above message is related to storage array capacity licensing. For specific definitions of these types of licenses refer to the following section.

See Criteria to determine license limits.

This message indicates that the total number of Backup Units in your database has exceeded the number for which you are licensed. A Backup Unit is defined as any client, server, media server, master server--that is, any host in your backup infrastructure for which reporting data is collected.

A number of factors are considered when determining client licensing compliance, as described in the following section.

See Criteria to determine license limits.

When you reach the object license limit, any additional objects will not be added to the reporting database. They, however, will be noted in an exception table. Refer to the following section for tools to identify excluded objects.

See Managing licenses.