Arctera License Management Service Help
- Introduction
- Pre-installation
- Installing and configuring
- About installing License Management Service
- Verifying License Management Service installation on Linux
- Verify License Management Service installation on Windows
- About configuring License Management Service on Linux and Windows
- Installing License Management Service along with Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 8.0.2
- Installing License Management Service along with Operations Manager in a high availability environment
- Getting started
- About LAS access
- Registering the License Management Service product key
- About License Management Service console
- About the Setup panel
- About the License Management Service dashboard
- Updating the License meter file
- Updating the Entitlements file
- About managing hosts
- Adding Kubernetes clusters
- Adding Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Active Directory-based authentication in License Management Service
- Adding a user group
- Adding local users
- Configuring SMTP settings for email notifications
- Managing License Management Service site details
- Changing the password
- About using reports
- Managing faults
- Viewing the activity monitor
- Registering
- Managing license usage
- About license usage
- Scheduling auto update for License meter file
- About assigning entitlements
- Scheduling auto update for entitlements file
- Assigning entitlements to hosts
- Reassigning entitlements to hosts
- Unassigning host from an entitlement ID
- Unmanaging a host
- Managing hosts
- Assigning entitlements to Kubernetes nodes
- Reassigning entitlements to Kubernetes nodes
- Unassigning Kubernetes node from an entitlement ID
- Viewing the License cores usage data
- Managing hosts
- Managing software upgrades
- Managing user administration
- Managing backup, restore, and uninstall
- Known issues
About software upgrades
Using the software upgrades feature, you can upload and install the baseline release, maintenance release, and patch release packages. Managed host upgrades, that is the VRTsfmh package upgrades, can also be done using the License Management Service console. To upgrade managed hosts, patches of Arctera InfoScale Operations manager are used and these patches are listed on the LMS console patch repository.
Using the Baseline packages tab, you can download the baseline release also known as the General Availability (GA) release and the maintenance release (MR) packages for managed hosts from Arctera Download Center and upload the same on License Management Service console. You can then install the package on the relevant hosts. The packages can be installed on the hosts whose status is healthy. Healthy status indicates that the XPRTLD service is running on the host and a connection is established between the host and License Management Service.
The following information about the package is displayed on this tab:
Name of the package.
Status of installations. You can see the number of hosts for which the selected package is applicable and the number of hosts on which it is installed. For example, 6/11 in the status indicates that the package is applicable for 11 hosts and is installed on only 6 hosts.
Version of the package.
Applicable on. This field always refers to MH, that is the managed host.
Type of the package, GA, or MR.
Whether the package is obsolete or not. Arctera recommends that you remove the obsolete packages from the list.
Release date of the package.
You can perform the following operations on this tab:
Download the package from Arctera Download Center and upload to License Management Service console. Uploading the baseline package
Install the package on the relevant hosts. Installing the baseline package
Remove a package from the list. Removing the baseline package
Note:
Baseline packages tab allows you to upgrade only Managed host.
Review the information about the latest available patches in the Patches repository tab. Then use the Uploaded patches tab download the patches from Arctera Download Center and upload the same on License Management Service console. You can then install the patch on the managed hosts or on the LMS server. The patch can be installed on the hosts whose status is healthy. Healthy status indicates that the XPRTLD service is running on the host and a connection is established on the host.
The following information about the patch is displayed on this tab:
Name of the patch.
Status of installation. Whether the patch is installed or not.
Applicable on. This field always refers to MH, that is the managed host.
Type, which is always the patch.
Whether the patch is obsolete or not. Arctera recommends that you remove the obsolete patches from the list.
Release date of the patch.
You can perform the following operations on this tab:
Download the patch from Arctera Download Center and upload to License Management Service console. Uploading the patches
Install the patch on relevant hosts. Installing the patches
Remove a package from the list. Removing patches
The patch release packages for the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager managed hosts and for LMS that are available on the Arctera Download Center are listed on the Patches repository tab.
Arctera recommends that you manually run the operation on the License Management Service console to get a list of the latest available patches at least once a month. Based on this master list of available patches, you can then download the relevant patches and proceed with the installations. Refreshing the patch repository
Note:
If License Management Service is installed on a host that already has InfoScale Operations Manager, then package and patch installation operations of the managed host are blocked on the License Management Service console. You must use InfoScale Operations Manager console to perform these operations.