Managing license keys

Accessing software functionality for your storage system requires a license key.

This chapter describes the types of available licenses, license capacity calculation, and instructions for installing, enabling, disabling, and uninstalling license keys.

Parent Topic

• Device Manager - Storage Navigator

  Device Manager - Storage Navigator (HDvM - SN) provides a unified GUI for managing and optimizing the storage systems. HDvM - SN communicates directly with the storage system using a LAN to obtain storage system configuration and status information and send user-requested commands to the storage system.

Child Topics

• License keys overview
• License key types

  To use software, you must install the license key provided when you purchase that software.

• Using the permanent key
• Using the term key
• Using the temporary key
• Using the emergency key
• Estimating licensed capacity
• Displaying the amount of capacity used by program products
• Installing and uninstalling software
• License key expiration