Licenses

You can use XClarity One for free to manage a maximum of 50 devices for up to 30 days using the free-trial license; however, after the free trial expires, you must purchase and install appropriate licenses to continue using applicable XClarity One functions and to get XClarity One service and support.

You can view information about your licenses by clicking Licenses in the context menu of the Settings view. XClarity One supports the following types of licenses.

• Managed-device licenses

  A managed-device license is required for every managed device to use basic monitoring and management functions in the XClarity One portal and entitlement for XClarity One service and support. The licenses that you need depend on whether you are using XClarity One in the cloud or running it as a virtual machine in your datacenter (on premises).

  • XClarity One – Managed Device, Per Endpoint
  • XClarity One – On-Premises – Managed Device, Per Endpoint

  License compliance is determined based on the total number of managed devices in the organization. The number of managed devices must not exceed the total device limit for all active managed-device licenses.

  After the free trial, if the Manage Device licenses become non-compliant (for example, when licenses expire or when newly managed devices exceed the total device limit for all active basic licenses), an alert is raised and a todo is added to the Things to do panel. You have a short grace period to acquire new licenses.

  Attention

  • You use the XClarity One – Upgrade - Managed Device, Per Endpoint licenses to convert your active XClarity Pro licenses to XClarity One – Managed Device, Per Endpoint licenses. The number of licensed devices and expiration date for the upgraded licenses will be the same as the XClarity Pro licenses.

  • To remotely access to the baseboard-management controller in your managed devices without having a VPN connection to your datacenter or edge where your devices are located, you must purchase and install XCC Platinum or XCC Premium licenses on your managed devices. For more information, see Remote sever access.

• Premium licenses

  You can optionally purchase separate licenses to enable any of the following premium functions. The licenses that you need depend on whether you are the cloud-based or local-based (on premises) XClarity One portal.

  • Memory Predictive Failure Analytics licenses

    You can optionally purchase XClarity One – Memory PFA MD Option or XClarity One – On-Premises – Memory PFA MD Option licenses to monitor and analyze memory errors and failure predictions to ensure that your devices are operating at peak performance.

    Important

    Memory predictive failure analytics (MPFA) supports only DDR4 SDRAM memory modules in certain devices. For a list of supported devices, see the XClarity Management Hub 2.0 Support for Servers webpage.

  When you purchase a premium license, XClarity One creates a licensed collection for the premium license type. You can choose which devices can use the premium license by adding or removing devices from the licensed collection. The number of devices in the licensed collection must not exceed the total device limit for all active premium licenses of that type.

  If premium licenses become non-compliant (for example, when licenses expire or when the number of devices in the licensed collection exceed the total device limit), an alert is raised and a todo is added to the Things to do panel. You have a short grace period to acquire new licenses. If you do not purchase a new license with the appropriate device limit before the grace period ends, the function is disabled.

• Managed service provider licenses

  If you are a business that provides IT solutions and services to other companies, you can change your organization to a managed service-provider (MSP) organization. To become an MSP in XClarity One, you must first purchase an XClarity One – MSP enablement license for each customer that you service and then contact Lenovo XClarity Support (Contact Us webpage). For more information about MSP organizations, see Organizations for managed service providers.

  After purchasing the MSP enablement license, contact Lenovo XClarity Support (Contact Us webpage) to add the service-provider flag to your organization.

  Note

  This license is available only for XClarity One in the cloud.

Purchasing licenses​

Contact your Lenovo sales representative or authorized Business Partner to purchase licenses for XClarity One based on whether you are using cloud-based or local-based (on premises) XClarity One portal, the functions that you want to enable and the number of devices that you want to manage.

For XClarity One in the cloud, purchased licenses are automatically applied to your organizations based on your Lenovo customer number.

• If you have not yet requested an organization, your purchased licenses are automatically applied after the organization request is made (see Requesting a new organization).

• If you have one or more active organizations, your purchased licenses are automatically applied to your oldest active organization. If there are no active organizations with the same customer number, licenses are applied to the oldest pending or requested organization. If none are pending or requested, licenses are applied to the oldest disabled organization.

For XClarity One running as a local VM, you must download and import the licenses into the portal. For more information, see Importing and activating licenses.

License status​

You can determine the status of your licenses by clicking Licenses in the context menu of the Settings view.

• healthy. License is active and the number of managed devices is within the limit of the license.

• warning. The license will expire in less than 3 months or when the number of managed devices exceeds the license limit by less than or equal 5% or 100 devices (whichever comes first).

• critical. The license expired or the number of managed devices exceeds the license limit by more than 5% or 100 devices.