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OnCommand Insight licenses

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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

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)