22.5.3.4 View license status

You can view the status of your server hardware licenses using the license graphs from the Settings menu in the Licenses view.

NOTE: You may have to refresh the Licenses screen in order for recent license assignments to show up in the license graphs.

The license graphs indicate the number of licenses available and required, and the percentage of server hardware that is in compliance (licensed). A complete blue ring indicates 100% compliance.

The number of available licenses is displayed below the graph. The number of licenses required, if any, is displayed in red text.

Table 7 License graph colors

Color

Description

 

 

 

Yellow

Indicates the percentage of server hardware without a license

 

 

Blue

Indicates the percentage of server hardware that is licensed

 

 

Light Gray

Indicates licenses that are available but have not been assigned

 

 

 

Figure 13 Sample license graphs

 

HP OneView w/o iLOHP OneView

 

 

1

 

0%

2

100%

 

 

 

 

Compliance

 

Compliance

14 Licenses required

3

100 Licenses available

 

0

Licenses available

 

1000 Servers licensed

0

Servers licensed

 

 

1

The license type for which

2

The license graph indicates

 

status information is being

 

the percentage of servers

 

reported.

 

that are licensed.
22.5.4 Server hardware licensing

3The number of licenses required (if any), the number of licenses available, and the number of servers with licenses.

To view the Server Hardware screen filtered to show the server hardware that is assigned a license type, click the Servers licensed link under the license type.

The appliance uses server-based licensing, but server blades and rack mount servers are managed differently. Server blade licenses are managed at the enclosure level, and rack mount server licenses are managed at the server level. When you add an enclosure, you specify a license policy for all

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