John,
I would contact your local Tivoli rep and pose this question to them. Tivoli
for a while now has been processor based for licensing. So if you no longer
have the TSM client installed and running on those servers then it doesn't make
sense that you should be paying maintenance or anything for that matter for
those nodes. This is one of the reasons why they did away with the current
license tracking in TSM at V5.3.
Another interesting point. If you were using something like VMWare and had 4
clients on one physical dual processor server you would pay for a single 2
processor license. Even though you have 4 installations of the TSM client.
This can have a negative effect as well. If you have 4 VM's on an 8 way and
want to purchase the TDP for SQL for just one of the VM's you still have to pay
for the 8 process license of the TDP.
Of course pricing can be different from customer to customer and location to
location so really only your local Tivoli rep can tell you exactly what you
are required to do.
"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT COM> wrote:
Hi John!
TSM's license counter starts counting as soon as a client starts backing up.
A license is not returned until all the client's data has been removed from
the server. So, as long as the inactive clients are storing data on your TSM
server (no matter how old), you are using a license...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message-----
From: John Naylor [mailto:John.Naylor AT SCOTTISH-SOUTHERN.CO DOT UK]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:08
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Does an inactive client need a licence
People,
My question is I have just run audit licence and it shows as audited the
number of registered clients
However a number of registered clients have not backed up for a few
months.
My question is do these inactive clients need a licence
Does anyone know IBM's official take on this.
thanks.,
John
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