If you're doing an upgrade install to V5R1, there's a new license file on the
install media which, for AIX at least is a new file, so it doesn't get pulled
in with the rest.  Check your install media for files called license or some
such and install them all.



Quoting "Seay, Paul" <seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM>:

> I have always had to copy the license files off the CD itself.  Check on
> there for the file and see if it says 5.1.
>
> Paul D. Seay, Jr.
> Technical Specialist
> Naptheon Inc.
> 757-688-8180
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Foster [mailto:dsf AT GBLX DOT NET]
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 12:10 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: TSM 5.1 license registration failed?
>
>
> I'm stumped by something (simple?) relating to TSM licensing.
>
> We've got a pretty plain vanilla TSM 5.1 setup with a 3584 tape library. No
> additional features purchased or in use (SAN, TDP, NMDP, etc).
>
> The 3584 requires a managed library license, as I understand it (has 12
> drives and 610 tapes spanning the L32 and D32), so we paid for that
> license,
> along with the number of client nodes we wanted to use.
>
> Didn't receive any paperwork or anything special -- just TSM 5.1 CDs with
> all the filesets that were appropriate.
>
> So then, once I've got the 5.1 server set up... went to do:
>
> tsm> register license file=library.lic
> tsm> query license
>
> Now says:
>
> [...snip...]
>                Number of Managed Libraries licensed: 1
>                           Server License Compliance: FAILED
>
> What did I do wrong? Why did it fail? How do I fix so that I can have both
> 1
> managed library AND server compliance = SUCCESS? The documentation is
> extremely sparse in this area, to put it charitably. ;)
>
> Did I install the wrong filesets for AIX 5.1 server? For the license, I
> have
> these filesets installed:
>
> # lslpp -l|grep tivoli|grep -i license
>   tivoli.tsm.license.aix5.rte64
>   tivoli.tsm.license.cert    5.1.0.0  COMMITTED  Tivoli Storage Manager
> License
>
> This is for a brand new TSM 5.1 install on a brand new AIX 5.1 install. No
> existing nodelock file was present, nor were anything restored.
>
> The only thing I wonder about, after looking at the library.lic file is a
> line that says this:
>
> ProductVersion=4.2
>
> Does that mean the license certificate file is specific only to TSM 4.2?
>
> Finally, in previous versions (ADSM 3.1, TSM 4.2, etc), I had to register
> an
> appropriate license for the number of nodes I'd paid for. But there's no
> client license certificate files nor anything mentioning it in the TSM 5.1
> 'q license', nor in the 5.1 docs...? Does that mean I continue to pay for
> client node licenses (I'm not here to rip anyone off!) but just simply
> don't
> need to register them with the server...?
>
> -Dan
>


Fred Johanson