Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide


Tivoli Storage Manager Licensing

This section describes the tasks of licensing a TSM system and monitoring the licenses.

Task Required Privilege Class
Register licenses

Audit licenses

Schedule automatic license audits

System
Display license information Any administrator

If a TSM system exceeds the terms of its license agreement, one of the following occurs:

For details, see License Compliance. In either case, you must contact your TSM account representative or authorized reseller to modify your agreement.

Licensed Features

The base TSM server license supports the following:

For current information about supported clients and devices, visit the TSM page on the World Wide Web at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.

You must register a new license if you want to add support for any of the following that are not already in your existing license agreement:

The enrollment certificate files for all TSM licenses are on the TSM installation CD-ROM. You register those licenses you want by issuing the REGISTER LICENSE command with the name of the enrollment certificate file. When registered, the licenses are stored in a NODELOCK file in the current directory.

License Compliance

If license terms change (for example, a new license is specified for the server), the server conducts an audit to determine if the current server configuration conforms to the license terms.

The server also periodically audits compliance with the license terms. The results of this audit are used to check and enforce license terms. If 30 days have elapsed since the previous license audit, the administrator cannot cancel the audit.

If the server uses a licensed feature but the license is not registered, TSM issues a warning message.

Registering Licensed Features

You can obtain licenses for licensed features and register those licenses by specifying the following files in the REGISTER LICENSE command:

1client.lic
One additional backup-archive client

5client.lic
Five additional backup-archive clients

10client.lic
Ten additional backup-archive clients

50client.lic
Fifty additional backup-archive clients

network.lic
To use a network communication method, for example, TCP/IP. A network license is not required for the following:

opensys.lic
OpenSystem environment support

spacemgr.lic
Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients)

drm.lic
Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager

advdev.lic
Advanced device support

You can register one or more of these features. For example, if you wanted to use the Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager and Tivoli Space Manager (HSM client), issue the following commands:

register license file=drm.lic
register license file=spacemgr.lic

You can also register a license by specifying the product password that is included in the license certificate file. For example:

register license 5s3qydpnwx7njdxnafksqas4

Attention: TSM licenses are associated with the CPU chip of the machine on which TSM is installed. If you change that CPU chip, you must first erase the existing nodelock files and then reregister all your licenses.

Saving Your Licenses

Save the CD-ROM containing your enrollment certificate files if you need to register your licenses again for any of the following reasons:

Monitoring Licenses

An administrator can monitor license compliance by:

Auditing licenses
Use the AUDIT LICENSES command to compare the current configuration with the current licenses.
Note:During a license audit, the server calculates, by node, the amount of backup, archive, and space management storage in use. This calculation can take a great deal of CPU time and can stall other server activity. Use the NOAUDITSTORAGE server option to specify that storage is not to be calculated as part of a license audit.

Displaying license information
Use the QUERY LICENSE command to display details of your current licenses and determine licensing compliance.

Scheduling automatic license audits
Use the SET LICENSEAUDITPERIOD command to specify the number of days between automatic audits.


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