All,

I have a customer who has plans to backup thousands of small Linux
boxes.  These boxes will be backed up incrementally until the 100GB
partition on each is full and then they will perform a full backup.  At
that time, the client will be decommissioned and not back up any longer.
Cost is a major issue for this customer.  They cannot afford to buy 1
client license for each of these tiny hosts.

When the TSM Value Based Pricing model came out, I seem to remember
hearing that if a client was no longer backing up, after a certain
amount of time, the client license would be put back into the pool.  I
have seen this in a couple of accounts where I have come in and upgrade
the TSM server as well - there were 30 clients defined and only 25 were
"in use."

My question is: after how many days, will the client stop being "in use"
and free up a license for reuse?


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
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