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The NNMi installer activates an instant-on 60-day/250-node license. This license also temporarily enables the NNMi Ultimate features for the 60-day trial period.

To check the validity of your NNMi licenses, in the NNMi console click Help → System Information, and then click View Licensing Information. Compare the Capacity count with the Consumption count to see how much unused capacity is remaining.

If you are using the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony as a feature of NNMi Ultimate or NOM Ultimate, every ten IP Phones managed by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony counts as one NNMi node for the purposes of licensing. The license node consumption due to these IP phones is not automatically added to the Consumption value for the NNMi Ultimate or NOM Ultimate license. You can determine the NNMi Ultimate or NOM Ultimate node license count consumed by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony by running the nmsiptlicinfo.ovpl command provided with the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony.

In the documentation, any feature marked NNMi Advanced also applies to NNMi Premium, NOM Premium, NNMi Ultimate, and NOM Ultimate. Likewise, anything marked as NNMi Premium also applies to NOM Premium, NNMi Ultimate, and NOM Ultimate. Each of these is a super-set of the preceding one in the following order: NNMi Advanced, NNMi Premium, and NNMi Ultimate. Any feature marked NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics also applies to NNMi Premium and NOM Premium. Some items marked iSPI NET apply to NNMi Premium (Trap Analytics and Visio Map Export); all items marked "iSPI NET" apply to NNMi Ultimate.

NNMi uses a node-based licensing scheme (that is, you can monitor a limited number of managed nodes with each NNMi license key).

Each device with a Device Profile of vmwareVM is equivalent to 1/10th node.

All other devices are equivalent to one discovered node.

Advanced

An NNMi Advanced license enables the following features:

  • All features licensed by the base NNMi license.

  • IPv6 Discovery and Monitoring

  • Monitoring of router redundancy groups (HSRP, VRRP).

  • Support for port aggregation protocols (for example, PaGP) with results displayed in the Link Aggregation tab of the Interface form.

  • Route Analytics Management Software (RAMS) integration for RAMS traps and path information from RAMS, enhancing the path displayed in Path View.

  • Extension of path visualization (for example, Equal Cost Multi-Path). When multiple paths are possible, the user interface provides for selection of specific paths for opening an NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics path health report.

  • MPLS WAN Clouds (RAMS) view from the Inventory workspace, including map views of the MPLS WAN cloud; see Using Route Analytics Management Software (RAMS) with NNMi Advanced in the NNMi help.

  • VMware ESXi and virtual machine management

  • Global Network Management. (The global manager requires an NNMi Advanced license; regional managers do not.)

NNMi Premium

An NNMi Premium license enables the following features:

  • All NNMi Advanced features.
  • The SNMP Trap Analytics feature of iSPI NET.
  • The Visio Export feature of iSPI NET.
  • The NNMi Developer Toolkit. See the SDK documentation and examples located in the %NnmInstallDir%\doc folder (Windows) or $NnmInstallDir/doc directory (Linux).
  • Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Metrics. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics documentation for details.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance documentation for details.

NOM Premium

A NOM Premium license enables the following NNMi features:

  • All NNMi Advanced features.
  • The SNMP Trap Analytics feature of iSPI NET.
  • The Visio Export feature of iSPI NET.
  • The NNMi Developer Toolkit. See the SDK documentation and examples located in the %NnmInstallDir%\doc folder (Windows) or $NnmInstallDir/doc directory (Linux).
  • Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Metrics. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics documentation for details.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance documentation for details.
  • NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic

In addition, this license also gives you the entitlement to install and use NA.

NNMi Ultimate

An NNMi Ultimate license enables the following features:

  • All NNMi Premium features.
  • The Diagnostics feature of iSPI NET. This feature requires a separate installation of an iSPI NET Diagnostics Server or an Operations Orchestration server.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic documentation for details.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI for IP Multicast. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI for IP Multicast documentation for details.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI for IP Telephony. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony documentation for details.
  • Network Node Manager iSPI for MPLS. This software requires a separate installation. See the NNM iSPI for IP Multicast documentation for details.

NOM Ultimate

.A NOM Ultimate license enables all the features that are available with the NNMi Ultimate.

In addition, this license also gives you the entitlement to install and use NA.

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.

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:

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:

    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:

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

  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 -f license_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

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