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Manage licenses for on-premises ONTAP

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You can view contract details for each of your on-premises ONTAP clusters in the Console. If you have not discovered a cluster, you can also discover them.

Before you begin

The Console displays details about on-premises ONTAP clusters that you discovered as systems or that are associated with a NetApp Support Site account that you added to the Console.

View cluster information and contract details

View the status of the hardware and software contracts for your on-premises ONTAP clusters so that you can renew them before they expire.

Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Governance > Licenses and subscriptions.

  2. Select On-Premises ONTAP.

    The Software Contract and Hardware Contract expiration dates appear on the line for each cluster.

    If you are prompted to enter your NetApp Support Site (NSS) account credentials first, select Add NSS Account. After you add the account, the clusters associated with that NSS account appear.

  3. If the contract is close to the expiration date or has expired, you can select the chat icon in the lower-right of the Console to request an extension to the contract.

  4. To view more details, select A down-caret icon to expand the cluster information.

Discover clusters

If you have not discovered an on-premises ONTAP cluster as a system, you can do that from the Console. After it is discovered, a cluster is available as a system so that you can manage it.

Before you begin

You should understand your discovery and management options (discovery using a Console agent or direct discovery without an agent) as well as discovery requirements.

Learn about discovery options and requirements.

Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Governance > Licenses and subscriptions.

  2. Select On-Premises ONTAP.

    Your ONTAP clusters display with a status of whether they have been discovered in the Console.

    If you are prompted to enter your NetApp Support Site (NSS) account credentials first, select Add NSS Account. After you add the account, the clusters associated with that NSS account appear.

  3. Select Discover for the cluster that you want to manage through the Console.

  4. On the Discover ONTAP Cluster page, enter the password for the admin user account and select Discover.

Note The cluster management IP address is populated based on information from your NetApp Support Site account.
Result

The Console discovers the cluster and adds it as a system to the Systems page. The status for the cluster turns to Discovered in the On-Premises ONTAP page. Note that the system name is the name of the cluster.

You can now start managing the cluster.