Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide
This section describes the tasks of licensing a TSM system and monitoring
the licenses.
Task
| Required Privilege Class
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Register licenses
Audit licenses
Schedule automatic license audits
| System
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Display license information
| Any administrator
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If a TSM system exceeds the terms of its license agreement, one of the
following occurs:
- The server issues a warning message indicating that it is not in
compliance with the licensing terms.
- Operations fail because the server is not licensed for specific
features.
For details, see License Compliance. In either case, you must contact your TSM account
representative or authorized reseller to modify your agreement.
The base TSM server license supports the following:
- An unlimited number of administrative clients, and one backup-archive
client.
- Enterprise Administration, which includes: command routing,
enterprise configuration, and enterprise logging (server-to-server).
- Server-to-server Virtual Volume capabilities (does not include database
and storage pool backup).
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:
- Additional backup-archive clients. The base TSM license supports
one backup-archive client.
- Network Enabler (network connections for clients).
- OpenSystem environment.
- Tivoli Space Manager (HSM client), also known as space-managed
clients.
- Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM), includes server-to-server virtual
volumes for database and storage pool backup.
- Advanced device support
- For additional licenses that are available, check the documentation that
comes with your server.
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.
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.
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:
- Administrative client web interface (HTTP communication method)
- Administrative client GUI or command line access
- The use of a Tivoli or an SNMP receiver
- Electronic vaulting of storage pool and database backups.
Note: | A DRM license is required for this function.
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- 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.
Save the CD-ROM containing your enrollment certificate files if you need to
register your licenses again for any of the following reasons:
- The server is corrupted.
- The server is moved to a different machine.
- The NODELOCK file is destroyed or corrupted. TSM stores license
information in the NODELOCK file, which is located in the directory from which
the server is started.
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.
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- 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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