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Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

2010-04-23 14:10:48
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has
From: Rick Adamson <RickAdamson AT WINN-DIXIE DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:08:44 -0400
We just recently went through an IBM audit and were tasked with
collecting this information on several hundred machines, some local and
some remote. When I told my management that TSM does not collect this
info he got our IBM rep on the phone for confirmation. I spent a
considerable amount of time trying to find a way to get a near accurate
count without having to worry about hyperthreading fudging my numbers.
Intel makes, or made, a small utility call cpucount that does the job.
With very little scripting it can gather the numbers. I just created a
for loop that referenced a text file with the node names and ported it
out to a cvs file.

David if you can't find it let me know and I will see if I still have a
copy.

I STRONGLY suggest that anyone about to attempt this read the IBM
license terms regarding PVU's. 

IBM has no compassion regarding the shear amount of work the it requires
and they send third party auditors out to your site that only have the
slightest clue what they are doing. In many situations they tried to
double count our MS clusters (once for the physical nodes, and again for
the virtual instance names. I explained it to them and when we got their
analysis report...you guessed it, there it was. I should have known when
they had that deer-in-the-headlights look on their face.

Thank you,
~Rick


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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How
many CPU'S aka processors a server has

We made it throught the ILMT install, but are not in production yet with
it.

The actual install wasn't that difficult, but the instructions leave
much
to be desired - a lot of words with little info.

For example, it installs DB2 for it's db.  Ok . . .  I assume it has
some
built in backup system.  Then I read a little comment that for backups
refer to the DB2 documentation, and a link to the DB2 infocenter.  We're
an
Oracle shop . . .no one here knows DB2.  No help, no cheat sheet, no
built
in backup scripts - just go read the db2 manuals!  One of my tasks now
is
to become a DB2 dba . . . what fun!  (probably a good thing for our
eventual migration to TSM v6)

Another example . . .it's reporting the wrong units for a certain AIX
model.  You show the support guy the actual web page where the units for
the server are listed, but you get nowhere.


Rick






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There's ITLM, IBM Tivoli License Manager.
It's kind of bear to install, I hear.
(Has anybody done it?)

But nobody else has a fully automated solution AFAIK.

Contact me off-line and I can give you some other options.
--------------------
Lindsay Morris
CEO, TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David W Daniels/AC/VCU
<dwdaniel AT vcu DOT edu>wrote:

> All, Does anyone know if TSM has the capability to count and report
how
> many CPU'S aka processor(s) a server has? I'm asking because it SLA
time
> and this is some of the information we would like and hopefully charge
> user departments for in regard to TSM support.
>
> Also if there's is another way to get this information automatically
> please share....
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