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Why Use

Centralized

Licensing?

Prerequisite

Configuring

Centralized

Licensing

Manager-of-Managers Environment

Centralized Licensing

Centralized Licensing

It is not required to set up centralized licensing. Individual licenses can be installed on each Cell Manager. Without centralized licensing, these individual licenses are restricted to the cell on which they are installed, and all licensing administration tasks have to be performed locally.

If you have clusters configured in the MoM cell, make sure you identify a cluster client with its virtual hostname.

Data Protector allows you to configure centralized licensing for the whole MoM environment. All licenses are installed and kept on the MoM Manager system and can be allocated to specific cells as needed.

Centralized licensing simplifies license management. Licensing administration is performed by the MoM administrator for all cells in the MoM environment. This also includes the distribution and moving of the licenses.

When licenses are installed locally on the Cell Managers, they cannot be moved among the cells without the approval of the HP Password Delivery Center. See the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Installation and Licensing Guide for instructions on how to move licenses.

Setting Up Centralized Licensing

If you are consolidating existing Data Protector cells into a MoM environment, send a request to HP Password Delivery Center to move the licenses from the existing Cell Managers to the new MoM Manager.

1.Log on to the MoM Manager and create the licdistrib.dat file:

On Windows:

<Data_Protector_home>\config\cell\licdistrib.dat

On UNIX: /etc/opt/omni/cell/licdistrib.dat

2.Log on to each client Cell Manager in the MoM environment and create the lic_server file with the name of the MoM Manager:

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