One for the pot...

IBM are charging per processor....  Surely TSM License auditing is now
totally unrealistic for most activities??

Just an observation!

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Reeves [mailto:Nancy.Reeves AT WICHITA DOT EDU]
Sent: 09 March 2004 15:50
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM license audit not equal number of nodes


So, are you saying that if I had no new node related activity in 30 days,
that these 2 numbers would eventually match and be accurate?

That is quite a wrinkle!

Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
Nancy.Reeves AT wichita DOT edu          316-978-3860

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/09/2004
09:44:48 AM:

> >I ran the AUDIT LICENSE command first, then I ran the QUERY LICENSE
> >command (and got the 108). I ran QUERY NODES and got 78.
> ...
>
> I believe that a wrinkle in this is the TSM behavior of maintaining a
> count of license use attempts, regardless of validity.  Query License
> will reflect a count, which may be artificially high.  Supposedly,
> invalid entries in the count will age out after 30 days.
>
>   Richard Sims

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