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

Run license verification utility

Typically, you will run this utility after you install the license key.

This utility connects to the database and then compares the counts and names of the licensed components with the values contained within the installed license key. For an evaluation license, the report will show the date/time that the license key will expire--that is, when the software will no longer function.

Log in as a user with super-user privileges and use the following utility to check the licensed components that are currently enabled in your environment.

Windows:

C:\opt\aptare\utils\verifyLicense.bat

Linux:

/opt/aptare/utils/verifyLicense.sh

The most important part of this report is the last section titled: VERIFYING LICENSE AGAINST CONFIGURATION. If this section is blank, there are no license violations and you have correctly installed the license and, in addition, the number of licensed components within the product matches the installed license key.

The LICENSE DETAILS portion of this report shows the specific capabilities that are associated with the license that was purchased for your environment.

Sample output:
=============== CURRENT CONFIGURATION ===============
Hostname: InstallWin2012
Operating System: windows server 2012 r2
Number CPUs or Cores: 2
License Activation Key: 8F6N9-865N9-6P3K7-63NK7-3HVEC
=====================================================
APTARE IT Analytics 10.2.01.82247 (08292018-0034)
Wed, Aug 29 2018, 10:47 AM
Installed Features:
Dell Compellent
Commvault Simpana
Veritas Backup Exec
IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
Veeam Backup & Replication
Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
Brocade Switch
HP 3PAR
NetApp E-Series
HP EVA
Cisco Switch
IBM VIO
Hitachi Data Systems
NetApp Cluster-Mode
Hitachi NAS
Policy Auditing Module
Cohesity DataProtect
NetApp SnapVault
HP Data Protector
OpenStack Swift
IBM XIV
EMC Avamar
EMC NetWorker
Veritas NetBackup
NetBackup Discovery Module
McData Switch
Generic Backup
NetApp
IBM Capacity
IBM SVC
EMC VPLEX
Oracle Container/Zone
EMC Isilon
EMC Data Domain Storage
VMware
EMC VNX (CLARiiON)
EMC Capacity
EMC VNX (Celerra)
EMC Symmetrix
NetApp SnapMirror
=====================================================
User License count:
Number of active login users: 5
Number of NetBackup Master Servers: 14
Number of Data Collectors: 5
Number of internal portal users: 4
TOTAL: 28
Number of IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Instances: 2
Number of EMC Networker Servers: 2
Number of BackupExec Collectors: 1
Number of HP Data Protector Servers: 1
Number of EMC Avamar Servers: 3
Number of CommVault Servers: 3
Number of Generic Servers: 2
Number of Units: 68
Total SAN Ports: 4600
Total RAW Capacity (TB): 9516
Total Utilization (TB): 7
Total Replication Arrays: 0
Total Hypervisors: 15
================== REPORT COMPLETE =================
================= LICENSE DETAILS ==================
Main Portal License:
License Version: SC 6.8
Path to license: c:\opt\aptare\portalconf
License Issued on Sep 15, 2011 12:01:00AM PDT
Number of allowed CPUs or Cores on Portal Server: 1
Oracle Source: APTARE
Licensed Modules:
Backup Manager is licensed
Capacity Manager is licensed
Virtualization Manager is licensed
Replication Manager is licensed
Fabric Manager is licensed
File Analytics is licensed
Features:
Discovery is licensed
Policy Audit is licensed
Number of named users: 5000
Client based licensing:
Number of allowed Clients: 50000
Excess Clients threshold (%): 0
Server based licensing:
Number of allowed NetBackup Master Servers: 0
Number of allowed BackupExec Collectors: 0
Number of allowed IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Instances: 0
Number of allowed EMC Networker Servers: 0
Number of allowed HP Data Protector Servers: 0
Number of allowed EMC Avamar Servers: 0
Number of allowed CommVault Servers: 0
Number of allowed Generic Servers: 0
NetBackup Master Servers:
BackupExec Collectors:
IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Instances:
EMC Networker Servers:
HP Data Protector Servers:
EMC Avamar Servers:
CommVault Servers:
Generic Servers:
Max SAN Ports: 50000
Max SAN capacity (TB): 150000
Excess SAN Capacity threshold (%): 0
Number of allowed replication arrays: 5000
Number of allowed vm servers: 50000
Max File Analytics Utilization (TB): 5000
Excess File Analytics Utilization threshold (%): 0
Activation State: The license activation state is valid.
=================== REPORT COMPLETE ====================
======= VERIFYING LICENSE AGAINST CONFIGURATION ========
No license overage detected.
=================== REPORT COMPLETE ====================