The Settings Summary provides a series of Device Limits counters that can be used to clearly understand when NetMRI licensing is fully utilized for a given physical appliance. This information helps you decide when network discovery and management might need to be distributed to other appliances, and when you can increase your license allocations on a NetMRI appliance to manage more network infrastructure devices.
Three key values must be kept in mind for all NetMRI device capacities and device management limits: Platform limits, Licensed limits, and Effective limits.
Platform Limit: The highest number of network infrastructure devices that can be fully managed by NetMRI. NetMRI can discover a much larger number of infrastructure devices than are called for in the Platform limit. The Platform limit denotes the expected maximum number of infrastructure devices that may be fully managed by the NetMRI physical appliance.
Licensed Limit: The number of infrastructure devices that NetMRI is specifically entitled to manage through a purchased device license. If a manager wants to manage up to 500 infrastructure devices, they purchase a 500-device license. This value appears in the Licensed Device Limit fields on the Settings Summary page.
Effective Limit: The current number of infrastructure devices manageable by NetMRI. This value usually, but not always, is the same as the Licensed limit.
The Limit categories are applied against the License type installed in your appliance. The license types (Full NetMRI or Automation Change Management (ACM)), appear in the Settings Summary page listed for each separate license type. (See NetMRI Licensing for for information on each licensing type.)
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In such cases, the Effective limit exceeds the Platform limit for the given feature license. A The Platform Overridden message, in red, appears in on the Settings Summary page. The user can use all originally purchased device license entitlements.
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A warning banner appears on the NetMRI screen only when the number of discovered end hosts, discovered devices, or discovered interfaces exceeds the Total Device Limit of the system. |
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Operations Center Device Limits
NetMRI Platform limits, Licensed limits, and Effective limits apply to all Collector appliances and instances in an Operations Center. On In the Operations Center, the Settings icon > Setup > Tunnels and Collectors page separately lists each Collector's status and their associated device limits. For more information, see Checking NetMRI Collectors Operation.
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