View NetApp ONTAP Licenses and License Status

ONTAP cluster CLI

Use an account with the appropriate cluster-administration privileges:

system license show
system license show-status

The source also writes license show as a shorthand. The full documented command above is clearer across CLI contexts. Source {insert_element_...} strings are broken editing/citation artifacts and have been removed; they are not command arguments.

Filter the output

system license show -package <PACKAGE_NAME>
system license show -serial-number <SERIAL_NUMBER>
system license show -owner <NODE_OR_CLUSTER_OWNER>
system license show-status -status eval
system license show-status -status valid
system license show-status -status not-compliant

Replace placeholders and choose the intended filter. The source’s system license show -node ... is corrected to the documented -owner filter; owner can represent node or cluster context. The three status examples are alternatives, not a literal brace/pipe expression to paste.

Original illustrative table

Serial Number: 1-80-000001
Package           Type      Description                  Expiration
----------------- --------- ---------------------------- ----------
Base              node      Cluster Base License         -
CIFS              site      CIFS License                 -
SnapMirror        eval      SnapMirror 90-day Trial      2026-03-15
FlexClone         capacity  FlexClone License            -

This is the source’s illustration, not captured output from the reader’s cluster. Its Type column mixes terms such as node/eval with licensing concepts. In the checked command reference, license types include values such as license/site/demo/subscr/capacity, while status and scope are separate fields. Do not infer the entitlement or valid type solely from this sample, or interpret its 2026-03-15 trial expiry as current.

System Manager

ONTAP9.8 and later: open Cluster > Settings, open Licenses, then inspect Features and the selected feature’s details.
ONTAP9.7 and earlier: open Configuration > Cluster > Licenses and its Details tab. The source omits the Cluster level in this older path; it is included here from the official English guide.

Legacy 7-Mode

The source lists license and license show <feature_name>. These must not be assumed to share ONTAP9 grammar. Use the exact 7-Mode release’s command help; no full matching 7-Mode feature-query syntax was independently verified in this review.

Special cases

ONTAP Select: the source uses system license show-status -license select. Choose the actual licensable-package value accepted by the release (for example Select). This inspects licensing status; it is not a complete report of every capacity-pool usage/License Manager condition.
SnapCenter-related package: the source’s license show | grep SnapManagerSuite is replaced with the documented package filter:

system license show -package SnapManagerSuite

SnapManagerSuite is a historical package name. Verify the actual ONTAP/SnapCenter release and entitlement model rather than treating it as the universal name of every current controller license.

The source also points to the NetApp Support Site licensing-management area for purchased/assigned entitlements. Menu names and access depend on account permissions. Review expiration/status fields and renewal needs; a status query is not itself an alerting guarantee.

English references: view license details, system license show, and show-status.