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

License overview

A valid license is required to run the APTARE IT Analytics application.

If you have not received your license file, see Get the APTARE IT Analytics license key file

The availableAPTARE IT Analytics license suites and their respective inclusions as follows.

Table: APTARE IT Analytics License suites

License suites

Inclusions

Storage suite

  • Capacity Manager

  • Fabric Manager

  • Virtualization Manager

Protection suite

  • Backup Manager

  • Virtualization Manager

Complete suite

Note:

Complete suite contains the license of File Analytics in addition to those included in both Storage and Protection suites.

  • Capacity Manager

  • Fabric Manager

  • Virtualization Manager

  • Backup Manager

  • File Analytics

If you find that you have exceeded your license configuration, refer to: