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Arctera License Management Service Help
- Introduction
- Pre-installation
- Installing and configuring
- About installing License Management Service
- Verifying License Management Service installation on Linux
- Verify License Management Service installation on Windows
- About configuring License Management Service on Linux and Windows
- Installing License Management Service along with Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0.0
- Installing License Management Service along with Operations Manager in a high availability environment
- Getting started
- About LAS access
- Registering the License Management Service product key
- About License Management Service console
- About the Setup panel
- About the License Management Service dashboard
- Updating the License meter file
- Updating the Entitlements file
- About managing hosts
- Adding Kubernetes clusters
- Adding Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Active Directory-based authentication in License Management Service
- Adding a user group
- Adding local users
- Configuring SMTP settings for email notifications
- Changing the password
- About using reports
- Managing faults
- Viewing the activity monitor
- Registering
- Managing license usage
- About license usage
- Scheduling auto update for License meter file
- About assigning entitlements
- Scheduling auto update for entitlements file
- Assigning entitlements to hosts
- Reassigning entitlements to hosts
- Unassigning host from an entitlement ID
- Unmanaging a host
- Managing hosts
- Assigning entitlements to Kubernetes nodes
- Reassigning entitlements to Kubernetes nodes
- Unassigning Kubernetes node from an entitlement ID
- Viewing the License cores usage data
- Managing hosts
- Managing software upgrades
- Managing user administration
- Managing backup, restore, and uninstall
- Known issues
- LMS GUI becomes inaccessible when updating the license meter file (SDSCPE-23221)
- Critical faults are listed multiple times with no details about the source and faulted objects (SDSCPE-23095)
- LMS configuration fails if the node has no connectivity to the Internet (SDSCPE-23312)
- Two separate tasks are seen in the UI when you install an update (SDSCPE-23012)
- Bulk add host operation remains in queued state (SDSCPE-22715)
- LDAP configuration may fail on a fresh Windows License Management Service (LMS) installation (SDSCPE-20770)
- License Management Service patch details not visible in the LMS UI
- InfoScale Operations Manager services do not restart on SUSE host after reboot (15189)
- Incorrect error message displayed during password change task (16155)
- Login without any permissions fails with infinite spinner error (16167)
About License Management Service console
The License Management Service console is divided into two sections. The left section consists of different features of this service. On the right you can perform various operations or view relevant data which belongs to the selected feature. Notifications, various settings options, online Help, and user details are available on the top right corner.
The Setup panel is launched when you first open the License Management Service console. This panel is a shortcut to perform various operations which are a part of getting started with License Management Service.
Exit the Setup panel to view the . The dashboard provides a quick visual summary of license usage, the faults that are triggered on the hosts, host deployments, and more.
About the License Management Service dashboard
The following tasks can be completed using the top right corner menus:
: A number of operations such as product registration, SMTP server configuration, and color theme selection (dark mode, light mode, system mode) can be done from here.
: View and fix the faults that are generated.
: Setup menu, product documentation, and product installation information is available here.
: Logged in user details, option to change password, and log out operations are available here.
The product features on the left hand are as follows:
: This menu provides graphical and statistical insights on entitlements status across InfoScale products, data on the used entitlements and available entitlements, InfoScale product deployments, faults in the systems and much more.
: This menu enables you to manage the InfoScale product licenses, view license usage and entitlements, manage hosts and entitlements, and update license meter and entitlement files.
The following options are displayed when you expand :
Usage
Entitlements
License meter file update
Entitlements file update
: This menu consists of tasks and audit logs. The ongoing status of all tasks that are performed on the hosts or the containers, for example, adding, removing, and refreshing are shown in the System taskstab. The Audit logs tab gathers information about all the tasks that are performed on the License Management Service console.
: This menu lets you upload and install the baseline release, maintenance release, and patch release packages for managed host.
: This menu lets you generate a variety of reports such as license unit requirements, entitlements usage, host deployment distribution etc.
: This menu shows the generated faults and provides a summary of number of faults that are of type critical, warning, and informational .
: This menu lets you manage local users, groups, and domains.