nPar, vPar, and LPAR Device and Infrastructure Inventory
FlexNet Manager Suite can generate a license compliance position for the applications installed on the virtual machines created using HP virtualization (nPartitions and vPartitions on HP-UX ) and IBM virtualization infrastructure (on AIX). The inventory collection for HP and IBM virtualization is different from that of Oracle, Citrix, and VMware as you only have to target (see Targets) the virtual machines (vPars) and FlexNet Manager Suite automatically constructs the host record by using the information collected from the virtual machines. To collect vPar inventory, FNMS uses the following different components and processes:
| Inventory type | Component used | Process used | Purpose | ||||||||
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| Device inventory |
ndtrack, either installed locally or run remotely from the appropriate
inventory beacon. |
The inventory collection component collects the software and hardware inventory of all
virtual machines within the targeted subnet. For this, you need to create a discovery
and inventory rule with the following settings:
For more information, see the topics under Creating an Action. The inventory device records are visible on the Virtual Devices and Clusters page. You can filter the records using
the following information:
Note: When using the zero footprint method of inventory collection, the
appropriate inventory beacon(s) need the credentials of the root user for the
virtual machines. For this, the Password Store on the appropriate inventory beacon(s)
needs to be updated with these credentials. Use the value SSH account
(password) for the Account Type field. For more information, see Using Password Manager.
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The hardware and software inventory is used for normal license compliance calculations. |