AutoPass licensing

SA is now enabled with HPE AutoPass licensing, allowing you to view the license capacity of the SA installation. The license capacity is measured in number of SA Agent managed servers.

You can view the information related to licenses in the Administration tab of the SA Client.

The are two types of licensing available in SA:

• InstantOn license: Corresponds to the trial period, which is for 60 days. The information related to this license is displayed using color-coded banners in the header of the SA Client UI:

  • Orange banner: Displays the number of days remaining for expiring the license.

    

  • Red banner: Displayed when the license is expired.

    

• Permanent license: Defines the permanent licenses, with no limit period and a customizable capacity. From the SA Client UI, you can install a new permanent license and remove a license. The information related to this license is displayed using color-coded banners in the header of the SA Client UI:

  • Orange banner: Displayed when the available license capacity (number of SA Agent managed servers) is less than 10% of the total license capacity.

    

  • Red banner: Displayed when there is no available license capacity.

    

  • Red banner: Displayed when there is no license.

AutoPass functionality in SA

AutoPass feature in SA supports the following functionality:

• License Management
  • Install a new license.
  • Remove a license.
  • Display information about the current licenses.

• Licensing Events Notification

  • When the user is approaching the license limit, a banner is displayed in the header of the SA Client window.

  • When the user is in the trial period, a banner is displayed in the header of the SA Client window.

  • Banners are updated in a corresponding manner.

Manage licenses permission

To manage licenses, you must have the Manage Licenses permission. By default, only the Superusers and Opsware System Administrators user groups have this permission.

Install a new license

To install a new permanent license:

1. In the SA Client, select the Administration tab.
2. Select Licenses in the navigation pane.
3. Copy the Installation UUID value from the header of the licenses table.

4. Go to https://h20576.www2.hpe.com/mysoftware/index and use the copied Installation UUID to generate the license.

   Important Ensure that you generate enough licenses for the number of SA Agent managed servers in your business environment.

5. From the Actions menu, select Add license or select the icon from the header of the licenses table.

   The License Imports window appears.

6. From the License Imports window, select one of the following:
   • Choose License File: Choose the license file from your system.
   • Insert License Key: Copy the license key from the license file and paste it in the Insert License Key field.
7. Click OK.

Display information about the current licenses

To view information of the current licenses, go to SA Client > Administration tab and Licenses in the navigation pane.

The current licenses are displayed in the licenses table with all the information.

Remove a license

1. In the SA Client, select the Administration tab.
2. Select Licenses in the navigation pane.

3. From the Actions menu, select Delete license or select the icon from the header of the licenses table.

   The confirmation window appears.

4. Click Yes.

Special scenarios

For certain scenarios, adding a new permanent license will generate exceptions:

Scenario	Error message
Adding a duplicate license	This license has already been added
Adding a license with an invalid license key	This license is invalid
The current user has no permissions to add a new license	You do not have permission to perform this operation against the object(s). Operation: LicenseServiceInt.create(String) Object(s): []

License reporting

The HPE Usage Hub is a free service that enables you to view license information and usage across all your HPE Software products and solutions that use the AutoPass licensing module. It collects, maintains, and provides a centralized view of software deployments and license assets.

The Usage Hub helps you to track product and license usage, gain operational insight, ease the license renewal process, and optimize your license utilization.

To integrate SA with the Usage Hub:

1. Open the twist.conf file from your SA core. The configuration file is located in the twist folder, /etc/opt/opsware/twist.
2. Search for Autopass Usage HUB properties.
3. Specify the IP address or fully qualified domain name of your Usage Hub host in the autopassj.usage.hub.url.
4. Set the value of autopassj.connector.switch.flag and autopassj.connector.usage.analytics.switch.flag parameters to true.

5. (Optional) By default, the autopassj.connector.scheduler.analytics.frequency.in.mins is set to 10 minutes and autopassj.connector.scheduler.post.to.server.time.period.mins is set to 480 minutes. You can modify the time interval of these parameters as per your need.

   Note This modification needs to happen on every twist in the SA mesh.

6. Restart twist server with the command, /etc/init.d/opsware-sas restart twist.
7. Log in to the Usage Hub as a system administrator, and verify that your license information and usage data is displayed correctly.