James,

I don't know if there's something inside of the TSM server# database
about it. But there's an external file called 'nodelock' in the TSM
server's default installation directory (in AIX -->
/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin) where all your 'register license' commands
are being written to.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of James Choate
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:44 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM license files
>
> Does anyone know where TSM stores the license files that are currently
> registered on a TSM server?  Are the licenses stored in an internal
> table within the database, or are they stored in an external file.
>
> The reason I ask, is that I moved a TSM server from older hardware to
> newer hardware, and after the move, I had to go register the licenses.
> This wasn't a big deal, because I just re-registered the licenses. But
> I
> was just curios why after I loaded the TSM database from the old
> server
> onto the new server, the licenses didn't automatically transfer.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ~James