Capacity Licensing at the Customer Site

This section discusses the handling and reservation of capacity licenses (for teams) at your customer's site.

License Installation

For non-pooled capacity licenses, Sentinel RMS supports multiple licenses having same feature and version but different capacities. Let us look at the following example to understand this.

>FeatureX, Version 1.0, Capacity 1000, and Hard Limit 2

>FeatureX, Version 1.0, Capacity 2000, and Hard Limit 4

>FeatureX, Version 1.0, Capacity 1500, and Hard Limit 3

Note

>If an additive license with the same capacity and feature-version but different hard limit compared to the existing license is installed; the hard limits are merged.

>If an exclusive non-pooled license with the same capacity and feature-version but different hard limit compared to an additive license is installed; the additive license is overwritten if the existing license has the same capacity.

NOTE   For details on additive and exclusive licenses, refer to Planning Application Licensing.

Pooled and Non-Pooled Examples

Using our earlier example, let us assume the following:

>ZoneCast uses non-pooled capacity licenses.

>The customer has bought a license for each antenna station (team)

>The license specifies the number of Cell Managers (team members) connected to each antenna station

>The license specifies the capacity for all Cell Managers connected to the antenna station.

The customer uses the capacity reservation file to allocate a specific license to an antenna station; depending on the needs of that station.

For example, the customer has five antenna stations:

1.Stations 1, 2, and 3 service about the same load and require four Cell Managers to service 35,000 cells.

2.Station 4 has a much lower load, requiring only one Cell Manager and 2,000 cells.

3.Station 5 has a very high load and requires seven Cell Managers and 70,000 cells.

To account for peak times when the usage will be higher than average and also to plan for expected expansion, the customer purchases the following three licenses:

1.License 1 – Feature: CellPhone, Version: 1.0, Capacity: 45,000, Team limit: 5, Hard limit: 3, Non-pooled capacity

2.License 2– Feature: CellPhone, Version: 1.0, Capacity: 5,000, Team limit: 1, Hard limit: 1, Non-pooled capacity

3.License 3 – Feature: CellPhone, Version: 1.0, Capacity: 80,000, Team limit: 8, Hard limit: 1, Non-pooled capacity

The customer adds two entries to the reservation file:

1.Reservation 1: Group A, Team name: “LowUsage_CellPhoneSite”, reserves License 2.

2.Reservation 2: Group B, Team name: “HighUsage_CellPhoneSite”, reserves License 3.

In the case of a pooled license, all teams share the licenses’ capacity. Each team can request a different capacity, as long as the sum of requests from all the teams does not exceed the total capacity defined in the license. If a team requests a capacity that exceeds the available amount, the request is denied.

NOTE   For information on using WlsGrMgr to reserve licenses for teams, refer to the the Sentinel RMS System Administrator Help.