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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.
NOTE If you have clusters configured in the MoM cell, make sure you identify a
cluster client with its virtual hostname.
Why Use
Centralized
Licensing?
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
Prerequisite 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.
Configuring
Centralized
Licensing
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: