Well, that would be a good start, except that it's about $26/CPU too
high a price. And if it requires any of the rest of the Tivoli
monitoring structure to work, it wouldn't be viable anyway.

It does prove that someone at IBM was able to build a tool to report
this information and I feel the utility should have been provided to
those of us hit with the KPMG audit.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Bill Mansfield
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:23 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Lost in TSM licensing

IBM does have a tool that properly counts CPUs and cores for value unit
licensing calculations.  It's called Tivoli License Compliance Manager.
Load an(other) agent on all of your TSM systems and periodically it will
pop out a report of all your value units.  List price about $26/CPU.

 

I agree that TSM should contain something to help out with licensing,
but be careful what you ask for - other vendors that do that enforce
licensing by server (you have to get specific license key registrations
for each server).  Not a good tradeoff.

Bill Mansfield
Solution Architect
Logicalis, Inc.



 
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