Network Management

Hi,

How does IMC consume the node license for switch stack?  For example, if I have 3 switches stacked together (either using IRF or other stacking technology), will IMC consume one node license only or consume 3 node licenses?

Regards,

Budiman

Hello Budiman,

as soon as I know every IP address consumes one license, so for stacks one stack should equal one license. You can verify it when you go to "admin" (or the operator you use for login into iMC) - top right-hand site and click "about", under column "Quantity" you see all licenses used for all discovered devices. If you didn't check the consumed licenses before adding the stacks to iMC, you easily can delete the stack and re-add it via Resource - Add Device and observe the result of the quantity again.

I hope this can help you

Thank you

I am an HPE employee

An iRF stack will use one license and it will appear in a Device Category > Switches[Stack] or > Routers[Stack] it will also have a single stencil in the topology view.

@_biv_ 

Can you confirm this is true if a single device or router has multiple IP addresses?

The reason I ask, is that our 5400's have dozens of addresses on them, but when I do a network scan, it reports it as not added and can't due to us running out of licenses.

Also, our Aruba IAP's have a device IP and the one with the Virtual Controller role also carries a Virtual IP for management. These are seen as two seperate devices in IMC.