Apply Licenses

If you do not have a permanent license key installed, the NNMi product includes a temporary Instant-On license key that is valid for 60 days after you install NNMi. This temporary Instant-On license key enables you to use NNMi Ultimate features. You should obtain and install a permanent license key as soon as possible.

If you have purchased NNMi Premium or NNMi Ultimate, you need to use the license keys you requested from the Password Delivery Center for use with application failover or high availability. Be sure to request the following:

• High Availability: Obtain a license key for the virtual IP address of the NNMi HA resource group. This license key is initially used on the primary server and then used on the secondary server when needed.
• Application Failover: Obtain two license keys; one for the physical IP address of the primary server and one for the physical IP address of the standby server.

To view a list of the features included with an NNMi Ultimate license, see the licensing section of the NNMi Software Release Notes.

Preparing to Install a Permanent License Key

The temporary Instant-On license has a 250 node limit. If you have been running NNMi with the Instant-On license key, you might be managing more nodes than your permanent license supports.

When tracking license information, note the following:

• Consumption: NNMi discovers and manages nodes up to the NNMi licensed capacity limit (rounded up):

  • VMwareVMware ESX and VMware ESXi software uses SOAP protocol to implement bare-metal hypervisors. : Each device with a Device Profile of vnwareVM is equivalent to 1/10^th node.

  • All other devices are equivalent to one discovered node.

For details about license limits, see “Track Your NNMi Licenses” in the NNMi Help for Administrators.

• If the number of discovered nodes reaches or exceeds the licensed capacity limit,no new nodes are discovered unless one of the following occurs:

  • Install a license extension.
  • Review your configuration settings and limit NNMi discovery to only the important nodes in your network environment. Then, delete nodes and let NNMi rediscovery reset the managed inventory of nodes.

  For more information, see the NNMi online help.

Checking the License Type and the Number of Managed Nodes

To determine the type of license that NNMi is using, follow these steps:

1. In the NNMi console, click Help > About Network Node Manager i Software.

2. In the About Network Node Manager i Software window, click Licensing Information.

3. Look for the value shown in the Consumption field. This is the number of nodes that NNMi is currently managing.

   When tracking license information, note the following:

   • Consumption: NNMi discovers and manages nodes up to the NNMi licensed capacity limit (rounded up):

     • VMwareVMware ESX and VMware ESXi software uses SOAP protocol to implement bare-metal hypervisors. : Each device with a Device Profile of vnwareVM is equivalent to 1/10^th node.

     • All other devices are equivalent to one discovered node.

   For details about license limits, see “Track Your NNMi Licenses” in the NNMi Help for Administrators.

   For details about license limits, see “Track Your NNMi Licenses” in the NNMi Help for Administrators.

4. If your permanent license supports fewer nodes than NNMi is currently managing, use the NNMi console to delete less important nodes. For more information, see Delete a Node in the NNMi help.

Obtaining and Installing a Permanent License Key

To request a permanent license key, gather the following information:

• The Entitlement Certificate, which contains the product number and order number
• The IP address of one of the NNMi management servers
• If the license is for NNMi running under HA, the virtual IP address of the NNMi HA resource group
• Your company or organization information

Using Autopass and your Order Number (not possible behind a firewall)

To obtain and install a permanent license key, follow these steps:

1. At a command prompt, enter the following command to open the Autopass user interface:

   nnmlicense.ovpl NNM -gui

2. On the left side of the Autopass window, click License Management.
3. Click Install License Key.
4. Click Retrieve/Install License Key.
5. Enter your Order Number and follow the Autopass prompts to complete the license key retrieval process.
6. NNMi automatically completes the installation.

From the Command Line

If the automated process does not run to completion (for example, if the NNMi management server is behind a firewall), follow these steps:

1. To obtain a license key, go to the password delivery service at

2. At a command prompt on the NNMi management server, enter the following command to update the system and to store license data files:

   nnmlicense.ovpl NNM -flicense_file

   (The product license ID (NNM) is case-sensitive.)

   See the nnmlicense.ovpl reference page, or the Linux manpage, for more information.

3. NNMi automatically completes the installation.

Obtaining Additional License Keys

Contact your Sales Representative or your Authorized Hewlett Packard Enterprise Reseller for information about the NNMi licensing structure, and to learn how to add license tiers for enterprise installations.

To obtain additional license keys, go to the License Key Delivery Service:

https://entitlement.microfocus.com/mysoftware/index

See Extend a Licensed Capacity in the NNMi help for more information.

Note to Developers: With the NNMi Developer Toolkit, you can enhance the capabilities of NNMi by integrating custom web-service clients. After you install an NNMi Developer license, NNMi creates the sdk-dev-kit.jar file located in the doc folder. Unpack the sdk-dev-kit.jar file to view the NNMi Developer Toolkit documentation and samples.