If you are new to using the Assure UI portal or you have a new installation of MIMIX and did not apply license keys during the installation process, a few steps are needed to set up the portal to manage licenses for products whose portal applications support license management.
If you have used the Assure UI portal before, license information is retrieved when you log in. If you have instances to products that operate among multiple nodes, such as MIMIX, you should check the domain of each instance to ensure that product node roles will not limit the nodes from which licenses are retrieved.
Set up for new installations when keys were not applied during software installation
If you have a new installation of MIMIX on System i nodes and did not apply license keys during the installation process, you need to apply keys before the product will function. You can do this from the Assure UI portal before configuring the product.
Do the following:
Create a portal connection for each node in the MIMIX installation library. Use the Add action from the toolbar in the Portal Connections portlet on the Home page.
Select License Summary from the global action menu in the Portal Connections portlet.
From the License Summary window, do the following for each node in the MIMIX installation library:
a.Select Add License to Node from the global menu.
b.A wizard opens that prompts you to select the product library and a portal connection. Make your selections, then click Next.
c.If you are prompted to log in to a node, provide a password for the ID specified in the portal connection.
d.On the wizard Options panel, either select to get keys from Precisely or use existing keys and identify a location where the license key package (LKP) exists. Then click Next.
e.The Summary panel lists the licenses from the LKP that were applied to the node. Click Finish.
To ensure that you are automatically informed of licensing issues when not logged in to the Assure UI portal, set up a subscription. License events are included in the initial set of subscription events.
Initial set up for new Assure UI portal users
If you are new to the Assure UI portal and have product installations with valid license keys on their System i nodes, do the following to set up license management from the Assure UI portal:
Use the Add action from the toolbar in the Portal Connections portlet on the Home page to create a portal connection that access the product. For MIMIX, to ensure that you can access license information for all nodes, create a portal connection to a management node.
If you do not have an instance configured to access the MIMIX installation, create one now using the Add action from the toolbar on the Instances portlet. Be sure that the instance domain specifies the management node as the primary portal connection.
Select License Summary from the global action menu in the Portal Connections portlet.
From the License Summary window, select Retrieve Licenses from the global menu. The window will be refreshed with current license information from the nodes to which you can connect. When MIMIX installations are active, license information from other nodes will be available for retrieval from the portal connections.
To ensure that you are automatically informed of issues when not logged in to the Assure UI portal, set up a subscription. License events are included in the initial set of subscription events.
Ensuring you can access all available license information
If you currently use the Assure UI portal, portal applications for products that support license management in the portal automatically retrieve license information when you log in. If you subscribe to events for such a product, license events are automatically included in your subscription.
MIMIX products limit communication among nodes based on their node role. If you have more than one network node in a MIMIX instance, you may want to verify that your instance is configured with a management node as the primary portal connection in the instance domain. Do the following from the Instances portlet on the Home page:
Select the Details action for the instance, then select the Instance Domain tab in the Instance Details dialog.
Check the nodes listed. The node (SYSDFN) identified as number 1 in the Order column is the primary node from which information is collected. That node should be of type management and its configured portal connection should be to the management node.
If necessary, use the Change action for the instance to change the instance domain.
Updating license summary information after a hardware upgrade
When you have upgraded the hardware on which the system or logical partition (LPAR) where License Manager is installed, you need to update the license key information within License Manager before using the License Summary window in the Assure Unified Interface (Assure UI portal).
This must be done from a command line in the native user interface. From each system
where License Manager is installed on upgraded hardware, type
LAKEVIEW/UPDLICSUM and press Enter.
Setting up prerequisites for subscriptions
Configuring subscriptions for automatic monitoring