Just out of curiosity, how many people have been audited?  Did your entire 
environment have to comply with the new per processor licensing or only items 
purchased since the new process went into effect?

Debbie Haberstroh
TSM Administrator

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As I noted in a previous posting, I did some experiments where I
collected processor count information remotely by executing a command
with a return code equal to the number of processors. I have gotten
a request to share the code I used.

My experiments were done in 2004. I don't know whether all of the
commands will work with newer OS levels.

The process always involved a scheduled event with 'action=command'
and 'object' parameter consisting of an 'exit' command followed by
something that evaluates to the number of processors.

For Windows I used:

object="exit %number_of_processors%"

I don't think this works correctly with hyperthreading processors;
I think it reports the total number of hyperthreads rather than the
number of processors.

For Linux I used:

object="exit `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo|wc -l`"

This has the same problem with hyperthreading as my Windows code.
However, the /proc/cpuinfo psuedo-file also contained 'sibling'
lines reporting the number of hyperthreads per processor. I
captured this number using the following:

object="exit `grep ^siblings /proc/cpuinfo|head -1|cut -d: -f2`"

This code assumes that all of the sibling values are the same.
As far as I know, nobody is marketing systems that violate
this assumption.

For HP-UX I used:

object="exit `/etc/ioscan -kC processor|grep processor|wc -l`"

For AIX I used:

object="exit `lsdev -Cc processor|wc -l`"

For Solaris I used:

object="exit `/usr/sbin/psrinfo|wc -l`"

The Web search that turned up this command also turned up a
warning that no known method of querying processor counts
works on all Solaris releases. My notes don't indicate theOS level of the
system I tested this code on.