License Management

Administration > Setup and Maintenance > License Management

Alternatively, click License Management.

Three Operations Bridge editions are available:

• Operations Bridge Express Edition
• Operations Bridge Premium Edition
• Operations Bridge Ultimate Edition

The Operations Bridge editions are based on the number of nodes being monitored in your environment. Some functional restrictions may apply.

For details on the content of the individual editions, see the Additional License Authorizations for HPE Systems Management Center software products. For the most up-to-date version, go to http://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com.

Operations Bridge Add-ons

You can purchase Operations Bridge Add-ons to extend the capability of your Operations Bridge environment. The Add-ons are available in several versions:

• System Collector Add-ons

  • Operations Bridge System Collector Add-on, based on the number of OS instances.
  • Operations Bridge System Collector Express Edition Add-on, based on the number of OS instances.

• TBEC Add-on

  • OMi Operations Bridge Topology Based Event Correlation (TBEC) Add-on, based on the number of nodes.

• BVD Add-on

  • OMi Business Value Dashboard (BVD) Add-on, based on number of nodes.

For more information on the Operations Bridge Add-ons, see the Additional License Authorizations for HPE Systems Management Center software products. For the most up-to-date version, go to http://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com.

The HPE Licensing for Software Portal management options allow you to perform the following:

• Rehost licenses to a different machine (required only if the license key is locked to a machine identifier, such as the IP address).

• Generate a report of the license information.

• Review your license certificates.

• Update to a new version of your license. If you purchased an Operations Bridge license before OMi version 10.10, or you have an Event Foundation License, see How to update a license to a new version.

To use the HPE Licensing for Software Portal license management process, go to http://enterpriselicense.hpe.com/ and click Activation.

There are three types of licenses:

• Evaluation: A license with a fixed trial period of up to 60 days. This type of license is available only until a Time Based or Permanent license is purchased. Once purchased, the trial period immediately terminates.

  Note An Evaluation license cannot be renewed.

• Time Based: A license which has a time-based expiration date.

• Permanent: A license which does not expire.

To install the OMi license key provided as part of the Operations Bridge Set, choose one of the following methods:

• By using the OMi configuration wizard:

  1. Place the license file you received in a location accessible on the OMi server.

  2. Run the OMi Configuration Wizard. The License screen appears.

  3. The License screen in this wizard allows importing a license file. Click Browse to choose the new .dat file.

  4. Click Next to install the license.

• By using the OMi License Management page:

  1. Make sure the license file is accessible from the client system that you are using to log in to OMi.
  2. Log in to OMi as an administrator.

  3. Open License Management:

     Administration > Setup and Maintenance > License Management

  4. Click the Import License button, and then browse for the license file (.dat) in the file system.

     Note When running OMi in a containerized environment of the Operations Bridge Suite, the license must be configured in the management portal and not in the License Management interface in OMi. Therefore, the Import License button is disabled in the OMi Administration Guide interface. For details, see the Operations Bridge Suite Installation Guide and the Operations Bridge Suite Administration Guide.

  5. Select the license file and click Open. The file is uploaded from the client system to the OMi server.

     Note For the license update to take effect, you must log out of OMi, and then log back in.

If you purchased an Operations Bridge license before OMi version 10.10, you must retrieve and activate a new, up-to-date license in order to use the full functionality of the Operations Bridge environment. To do so, perform the following:

1. Retrieve your up-to-date license in the HPE My Software Updates portal: https://www.hpe.com/software/updates.

2. Activate the license in the HPE Licensing for Software portal: https://h30580.www3.hp.com.

3. Install the new license by following the steps described in How to install a license.

If you purchased an OMi Event Foundation license, you can continue using your license, but you will not have the full functionality of the Operations Bridge environment. To be entitled to the full suite of Operations Bridge capabilities, you can exchange your old license for a new license in the new Operations Bridge licensing structure. For more information, contact your sales representative to discuss your options.