Usage Hub IntroductionShared Technologies
Nov 2015
What’s Usage Hub Service?
A free service for HP Software customers that provides the following abilities:
Visibility - consolidated dashboard of all HP Software Products and Solutions data: license, features and usage information.
Compliancy - Proactively track usage and help minimize compliancy risk.
Consumption - Governance and control of your software license usage / consumption.
Maximize value - Identifying license capacity issues and work with HP Software to maximize the value out of the products and solutions.
What’s Needed To Have Usage Hub Service?
Only new VM machine with minimum resource, Windows or Linux:
For detecting HP Software products using agent based method:1. Download Usage Hub Agent (Windows or Linux).2. Install the Agent on where HP Software product is installed.3. Turn on the agent and let the data flow to the dashboard.
Usage Hub:Download the Usage Hub Service (Windows or Linux) and install on the new VM.If new VM is not available, Usage Hub can be installed on any existing machine.
For detecting HP Software products using agent less method:Only make sure there is a network connection from the Usage Hub VM to where HP Software product is installed.
Usage Hub DemoShared Technologies
Nov 2015
After 10 minutes of installation, login to
Usage Hub is available
After the login, a landing page is
available
Choose the relevant language
Check the admin options for future use
Check the configuration options for future use
Interactive view on license expiration. Interactive view on license models.
List of all HPSW products that were detected (“agent less” or “agent based”)
Click on admin > Overview to detect products or view data
Export Data
Product Detection
Product Search
Click to get features and usage data
> List of features, usage and capacity
Expand
> Full Data of each feature as a table
Archive an expired license to removed the line
Archived data is always available if needed >
Click to see the License Key
Click to see usage trend report >
Full report export to HTML looks like this
Feature Name Exp. Date Capacity Lic. Type SKU Lock Value Order
NumberRawKey
How Can I Get Usage Hub?Usage Hub Success Team Is Ready To Help You!
1) Make sure the VM is ready.
2) Download the Usage Hub full package to the new VM from HPLN: https://hpln.hp.com/contentoffering/usage-hub
3) Send an email to [email protected] once you are ready for installation with new VM.
4) Make sure you have access from the new VM to where HP Software product is installed.
Thank You!Shared Technologies
Nov 2015
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