EVA5000 Licensing

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HI
We got New EVA5000 & we have installed & configured it, ALso we got 1TB LTU for SOM & as per the instructions on the paper license i generated password form HP site ,now when i am trying to add this as a license useing CV-EVA it gives me invalid license.
My question is
1.whats the use of SOM?
2. what is tge correct procedure to use this with EVA5000?
Many thanks in advance.

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

OpenView Storage Operations Manager (OVSOM)
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/som/index.html

is a bundle of CV-EVA and OpenView Storage Node Manager (OVSNM). OVSNM is one out of five modules from the OpenView Storage Area Manager (OVSAM) product.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/sam/index.html

The OVSOM/SNM license is registered in the OVSAM client GUI, not CV-EVA. If you don't use OVSNM/OVSAM, then you can't/ don't need to register the license. CV-EVA will work without it.

These days the CV-EVA licensing mechanism is only used to register the BC-EVA or CA-EVA licenses, but not OVSOM/OVSNM.

[Brian Plume_1]

The license key screen seems to be VERY picky at times with how things are formatted.
A simple cut and paste doesn't always work, so what I've done in the past is copy and paste the key that I receive in email into WORDPAD or notepad, and clean it up a little. I think each "/" represents a carriage return, so I put them all at the end of the "sentence" and then I copy the whole thing and paste it into the license key screen.

Hope this is helpful to you.