About Hpe Xp7 Pa Licenses; Permanent Licenses - HPE XP7 User Manual

• PA cannot monitor the XP or XP7 disk arrays for any new configuration changes made after the grace
period is over. However, it continues to collect performance data for the current internal raw disk
capacities of the monitored XP disk arrays or physical usable capacities of the monitored P9500/XP7
disk arrays.
• Configured alarms, notifications, reports, charts, and all other functions continue to work. However, the
generated report contains a warning message for license expiry at the beginning of the report.
WARNING: License violation was detected for this array. This report may not capture performance
data about the recent configuration changes made in the <XP or XP7 disk array>. Please purchase
the required Performance Advisor licenses immediately.
• The License screen displays the following changes:
Screen elements
License Status
License Capacity (TB)
Comments
For PA to continue configuration collection for additional internal raw disk capacities on the monitored XP
disk arrays or physical usable capacities on the monitored XP or XP7 disk arrays, install Permanent
licenses on PA for each of the XP or XP7 disk arrays. Contact your HPE representative to procure the
additional licenses.

About HPE XP7 PA licenses

PA supports the following licenses:
• Permanent (for XP and XP7 disk arrays)
• Meter based Term license (only for XP7 disk arrays)
To install these licenses on Performance Advisor, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorization
Center (HPEAC) website: http://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com

Permanent licenses

Permanent licenses are primary licenses that you generate and install on PA to monitor an XP or an XP7
disk array. Permanent licenses are for an unlimited duration, perpetual, and unique to an XP or XP7 disk
array. After generating a Permanent license, the PA LTU and the registration number are bound to the
following:
46 About HPE XP7 PA licenses
Description
Displays the status as Expired.
Displays the capacity as 0.
Displays the following status message:
License has expired. Grace Period has expired on month,
day, year. Please purchase the required Performance
Advisor licenses now to continue using Performance Advisor
on this Array.
Where, month, day, year refers to the date till when the grace
period is valid.
The above status message is also displayed on the
Dashboard screen.