APTARE IT Analytics Licensing Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.6)
  1. License installation and guidelines
    1. License overview
      1.  
        License Editions
    2.  
      Understanding licensing restrictions
    3.  
      Get the APTARE IT Analytics license key file
    4.  
      Install a license
    5. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run the License Summary report
      2.  
        Help About
      3.  
        View License Details
    6.  
      Consumption criteria of license suites
    7. Storage suite
      1. Capacity Manager
        1.  
          Storage Array Capacity license criteria
        2.  
          Vendor-specific capacity license criteria
        3.  
          EMC Symmetrix Arrays
        4.  
          EMC CLARiiON Arrays
        5.  
          HDS Arrays
        6.  
          NetApp Arrays
      2.  
        Fabric Manager
    8. Protection suite
      1. Backup Manager
        1.  
          Cohesity DataProtect
        2.  
          Commvault Simpana
        3.  
          Dell EMC NetWorker Backup & Replication
        4.  
          EMC Avamar
        5.  
          EMC NetWorker
        6.  
          Generic backups
        7.  
          HP Data Protector
        8.  
          IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
        9.  
          NAKIVO Backup & Replication
        10.  
          Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        11.  
          Rubrik Cloud Data Management
        12.  
          Veeam Backup & Replication
        13.  
          Veritas Backup Exec
        14.  
          Veritas NetBackup
      2.  
        Virtualization Manager
    9. Complete suite
      1.  
        File Analytics
    10. Managing licenses
      1.  
        Managing objects collected from centralized systems
      2.  
        Managing directly probed enterprise objects
      3.  
        What happens to historical data?
      4.  
        Processes to manage license counts
      5.  
        Identify counted and excluded objects
      6.  
        Stack multiple licenses
      7.  
        Add license with higher entitlement
      8.  
        Change the license edition
    11.  
      View the current license
    12.  
      Delete clients
    13.  
      Expand your license configuration
    14.  
      Exclude objects from future data collections
    15. Configure the Data Collector policy to exclude the object
      1.  
        Example of configuring a Data Collector policy to exclude arrays
      2.  
        Add objects to the Object Exclusion Database table
    16.  
      Removing objects from the license count
    17.  
      Deleting objects using the Inventory List view
  2. License management from command line
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Install a license on Microsoft Windows Portal platform
    3.  
      Install a license on Linux Portal platform
    4. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run report configuration utility
      2.  
        Run license verification utility
    5.  
      Removing a Portal license
  3. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      License install fails with 'License is already issued for another host' error

Managing objects collected from centralized systems

When collecting from a centralized system, such as Hitachi Device Manager or vCenter, APTARE IT Analytics relies on the system to supply the information on the devices and resources that are available. For objects collected via a centralized system, there are two methods for removing collected objects:

  • Preferred Method: Go to the Data Collector policy in the Portal and use the "Exclude" field to exclude objects from collection. For example, for Hitachi Data Systems, you would exclude arrays in the Data Collector policy. Similarly, for VMware, you would exclude ESX servers in the Data Collector policy. When you exclude objects through a Data Collector policy, APTARE IT Analytics will automatically delete these objects from the reporting database.

  • Alternatively, you can go to the centralized system and decommission the object. In this case, you must also delete the object from the APTARE IT Analytics database.

    See Removing objects from the license count.

    See Deleting objects using the Inventory List view.