Understand, activate, and allocate licenses

See the following topics to learn more about DPA licensing:

• Learn about DPA license types and metering for DPA servers deployed in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
• Learn about registration and licensing options for clustered environments.
• If you are monitoring a database instance that runs in a VM cluster, see the requirements to create a user.
• Purchase licenses and view your purchased licenses in the Customer Portal.
• Activate DPA licenses to make them available to a DPA server.
• Allocate licenses to the DPA database instances you want to monitor, or deallocate a license to make it available to another instance.
• If licenses are over-allocated, troubleshoot and resolve the issue.
• Deactivate DPA licenses to make them available to a different DPA server.