OnCommand Insight licenses

OnCommand Insight operates with licenses that enable specific features on the Insight Server.

Discover: Discover is the basic Insight license that supports inventory. You must have a Discover license to use OnCommand Insight, and the Discover license must be paired with at least one of the Assure, Perform, or Plan licenses.
Assure: An Assure license provides support for assurance functionality, including global and SAN path policy, and violation management. An Assure license also enables you to view and manage vulnerabilities.
Perform: A Perform license supports performance monitoring on asset pages, dashboard widgets, queries, and so on, as well as managing performance policies and violations.
Plan: A Plan license supports planning functions, including resource usage and allocation.
Host Utilization pack: A Host Utilization license supports file system utilization on hosts and virtual machines.
Report Authoring: A Report Authoring license supports additional authors for reporting. This license requires the Plan license.

OnCommand Insight modules are licensed for annual term or perpetual:

By terabyte of monitored capacity for Discover, Assure, Plan, Perform modules
By number of hosts for Host Utilization pack
By number of additional units of Cognos pro-authors required for Report Authoring

License keys are a set of unique strings that are generated for each customer. You can obtain license keys from your OnCommand Insight representative.

Your installed licenses control the following options that are available in the software:

Discover: Acquire and manage inventory (Foundation); Monitor changes and manage inventory policies
Assure: View and manage SAN path policies and violations; View and manage vulnerabilities; View and manage tasks and migrations
Plan: View and manage requests; View and manage pending tasks; View and manage reservation violations; View and manage port balance violations
Perform: Monitor performance data, including data in dashboard widgets, asset pages, and queries; View and manage performance policies and violations

The following tables provide details of the features that are available with and without the Perform license for admin users and non-admin users.

Feature (admin)	With Perform license	Without Perform license
Application	Yes	No performance data or charts; no anomaly detection-related widgets
Virtual machine	Yes	No performance data or charts
Hypervisor	Yes	No performance data or charts
Host	Yes	No performance data or charts
Datastore	Yes	No performance data or charts
VMDK	Yes	No performance data or charts
Internal volume	Yes	No performance data or charts
Volume	Yes	No performance data or charts
Storage pool	Yes	No performance data or charts
Disk	Yes	No performance data or charts
Storage	Yes	No performance data or charts
Storage node	Yes	No performance data or charts
Fabric	Yes	No performance data or charts
Switch port	Yes	No performance data or charts; Port Errors shows N/A
Storage port	Yes	Yes
NPV port	Yes	No performance data or charts
Switch	Yes	No performance data or charts
NPV switch	Yes	No performance data or charts
Qtrees	Yes	No performance data or charts
Quota	Yes	No performance data or charts
Path	Yes	No performance data or charts
Zone	Yes	No performance data or charts
Zone member	Yes	No performance data or charts
Generic device	Yes	No performance data or charts
Tape	Yes	No performance data or charts
Masking	Yes	No performance data or charts
ISCSI sessions	Yes	No performance data or charts
ICSI network portals	Yes	No performance data or charts
Search	Yes	Yes
Admin	Yes	Yes
Dashboard	Yes	Yes
Widgets	Yes	Partially available (only asset, query, and admin widgets are available)
Violations dashboard	Yes	Hidden
Assets dashboard	Yes	Partially available (storage IOPS and VM IOPS widgets are hidden)
Manage performance policies	Yes	Hidden
Manage annotations	Yes	Yes
Manage annotation rules	Yes	Yes
Manage applications	Yes	Yes
Queries	Yes	Yes
Manage business entities	Yes	Yes

Feature	User - with Perform license	Guest - with Perform license	User - without Perform license	Guest - without Perform license
Assets dashboard	Yes	Yes	Partially available (storage IOPS and VM IOPS widgets are hidden)	Partially available (storage IOPS and VM IOPS widgets are hidden)
Custom dashboard	View only (no create, edit, or save options)	View only (no create, edit, or save options)	View only (no create, edit, or save options)	View only (no create, edit, or save options)
Manage performance policies	Yes	Hidden	Hidden	Hidden
Manage annotations	Yes	Hidden	Yes	Hidden
Manage applications	Yes	Hidden	Yes	Hidden
Manage business entities	Yes	Hidden	Yes	Hidden
Queries	Yes	View and edit only (no save option)	Yes	View and edit only (no save option)