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# View license usage

Unisphere supports electronic licensing (e-Licensing). e-Licensing is a license management solution to help you track and comply with software license entitlement.

## Steps

1. Click .
2. In the Settings dialog, click System and Licences > License Usage.

   The License Usage view shows the results of a query to the feature registration database of the storage system.

   The License Usage information is displayed for the first of the listed storage systems. You can select a storage system from the drop-down list to view its license usage information.

   The following properties display:

   Feature Name | Name of the feature.
   Activation Type | How the product title was activated. Possible values are:
   Entitlement | Indicates that product title was activated through an entitlement.
   Manual Override | Indicates that customer service manually activated the product title.
   Product titles that are activated manually (MAN) or because they were in use (USE) are not considered properly entitled. In this case, contact customer service for proper entitlement.
   Capacity Type | Qualifies the licensed capacity. Valid values are:
   R-TB-Non-SATA | Indicates that the capacity that is licensed applies to the raw capacity of all volumes on the system, excluding SATA.
   R-TB-SATA | Indicates that the capacity that is licensed applies to the raw capacity of all SATA volumes on the system.
   REG-TB | Indicates that the capacity that is licensed applies to the registered capacity of the storage system.
   R-TB External | Indicates that the capacity that is licensed applies to the raw capacity of the virtualized LUNs in external storage.
   Licensed Capacity (TB) | Licensed Capacity is expressed as TB and is the Physical Usable Capacity (Base10/TBu) on which the frame license is based.
   Used Capacity (TB) | Used Capacity is expressed as TB and is the Physical Usable Capacity (Base2/TiBu) multiplied by the current reported compression ratio in the active bin file.