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  5. Portal behavior with stacked license suites
IT Analytics Licensing Guide

Portal behavior with stacked license suites

Protection or Complete suite over Foundation license

When Protection or Complete suite license is installed on top of a valid Foundation license, the Foundation license is deleted. Additional policies/capabilities will become available for configuration. Data collection from policies configured with the Foundation license remain unchanged, as they become a subset of either the Protection or Complete suite of license.

Foundation over Protection suite license

When the Foundation license is installed on top of an existing valid Protection suite license, the Protection suite license is deleted. Data collection from policies that are not available in Foundation license continues but reporting is suppressed. You must delete or disable the policies that are not supported by the Foundation license before switching the license. Also, you must restart the Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent user services to make the license change effective.

Foundation over Complete suite license

When a Foundation license is installed on top of an existing valid Complete suite license, the Complete Suite license is deleted. Data collection from Protection type of policies that are not available in the Foundation license continue until the license coverage but reporting is suppressed. Data collection from Storage type of polices is stopped as RAWTB is exhausted. You must delete or disable the policies that are not supported in the Foundation license before switching the license type. You must also restart the Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent services to make the license type effective.

Start Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent

On Linux:

  • /opt/aptare/bin/tomcat-agent restart

  • /opt/aptare/bin/tomcat-portal restart

On Windows, restart the Tomcat agent and Tomcat portal from the Windows Services console.

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