how many licensing?

[marco.ferrara]

Hi,
I'm Marco from Italy, sorry for my English.

I have a new client that have installed many product of TSM

Can I see how much license and type of license my client have?

Thank's

 

[fuzzballer]

q lic at the command line will show all licenses and whether they are in compliance.

 

[aroon_e]

Hi Marco.ferrara

Do a
audit licence
query licence

Aroon

 

[marco.ferrara]

tank's for your response.
But I have another question,
whit command
q lic
I see flashcopy license too?

Thank's

 

[marco.ferrara]

I lunch the command: q lic on the admin command line, and I receive this:


Last License Audit: 06/24/2010 11:15:47
Number of TDP for Oracle in use: 17
Number of TDP for Oracle in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in use: 1
Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for MS Exchange in use: 0
Number of TDP for MS Exchange in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for Lotus Notes in use: 0
Number of TDP for Lotus Notes in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for Lotus Domino in use: 0
Number of TDP for Lotus Domino in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for Informix in use: 0
Number of TDP for Informix in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for SAP R/3 in use: 22
Number of TDP for SAP R/3 in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for ESS in use: 0
Number of TDP for ESS in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for ESS R/3 in use: 0
Number of TDP for ESS R/3 in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for EMC Symmetrix in use: 0
Number of TDP for EMC Symmetrix in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for EMC Symmetrix R/3 in use: 0
Number of TDP for EMC Symmetrix R/3 in try buy mode: 0
Number of TDP for WAS in use: 0
Number of TDP for WAS in try buy mode: 0
Is IBM System Storage Archive Manager in use ?: No
Is IBM System Storage Archive Manager licensed ?: Yes
Is Tivoli Storage Manager Basic Edition in use: Yes
Is Tivoli Storage Manager Basic Edition licensed: Yes
Is Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition in use: Yes
Is Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition licensed: Yes
Try-Buy Days Remaining:
Server License Compliance: Valid

But where see I the client license of Tivoli Backup-Archive Client?
Thank's
Marco

 

[TonyB]

Unfortunately the actual licensing situation with TSM doesn't match the output of the "q lic" command very well at all.

Each of the various products (backup/archive, tdp agents et al) are licensed by PVU (processor value units).

The "q lic" command reports a count of nodes - which has very little to do with PVU counts.

In order to work out if you are in compliance its necessary to know the hardware configuration of every client that connects...that acts as an input into the PVU calculator.

And no - I don't think anyone likes the PVU model

 

[cjhood]

In order to work out if you are in compliance its necessary to know the hardware configuration of every client that connects...that acts as an input into the PVU calculator.

The IBM Licence Metric Tool does this automatically (after you deploy an agent to each server of course). It's still a bit of a buggy app, but does the job well enough.

 

[TonyB]

The IBM Licence Metric Tool does this automatically (after you deploy an agent to each server of course). It's still a bit of a buggy app, but does the job well enough.

Cheers, nice to know - the sysadmins here hate it (won't deploy it), so its not an option for me

 

[umur]

But where see I the client license of Tivoli Backup-Archive Client?
Thank's
Marco

I don't think Backup-Archive Clients require licenses. Servers, Storage Agents, TDP Agents yes, but not clients.

 

[marco.ferrara]

Sorry,
I don't buy license for TSM BA client???
but I buy license only for TDP???

correctly?
Thank's

 

[domino]

You must use PVU-Model for licensing

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html

 

[marco.ferrara]

ok, thanks.
But my question was different:
I use Model-PVU licensing for even the TSM BA Client?

Because umur had written that:

I don't think Backup-Archive Clients require licenses. 
Servers, Storage  Agents, TDP Agents yes, but not clients.

 

[domino]

For all clients license are required (but not for all a lic file is in use)

 

[domino]

show this page fore further informations

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/tivoli/licensing/Tivoli_Licensing_Q3_2009_Final.pdf

 

[Sunhillow]

According to the updated PVU tables
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html
this bunch of [insert favourite pet name here] increase the PVU per Nehalem EX core when your server has more sockets

Give the merchandisers at IBM something reasonable to do so the don't have the time to bear such brilliant ideas.