Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS) License Administration

Through the License Keys node, you can administer the license keys for Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS component. Specifically, you can:

Before you can use Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Agents to manage the storage within your NAS filers, you must:

1. Assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the Agents that will be monitoring NAS filers

Note: You do not install Agents to the NAS filers themselves - rather, you install them to Windows and/or Unix machines that have access to those NAS filers (for example, install Agents to Windows machines within the same domain as NAS filers; install Agents to Unix machines that have imports for the filesystems within the NAS filers).

2. Assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS licenses to the NAS filers that you want to monitor

3. Set the user IDs and passwords that Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS will use when logging into NAS filers

 

To assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to NAS Filers

1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.

2. Click the License Keys node. The License Key Editor window appears.

3. Click next to Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS). The Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS) License Editor window appears and displays all the NAS filers discovered by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.

If you have unused Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS licenses, continue to the next step.

If you do not have any unused licenses and want to assign licenses to other NAS filers, you must purchase additional licenses or remove licenses from existing filers. To purchase additional licenses of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, contact your IBM Tivoli representative. To unassign licenses from Agents, see the following section To unassign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS licenses from NAS filers.

4. Click the check box in the Licensed column next to the NAS filer you want to monitor.

5. Select File > Save. After assigning a license to a NAS filer, keep in mind the following:

Note: After assigning licenses to NAS filers, you must ensure that Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses are assigned to the Agents that will monitor those NAS filers. See the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager License Administration section for instructions on how to assign a Tivoli Storage Resource Manager/OS license to an Agent. See the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS Component User Guide for instructions on how to assign licensed Agents to the filesystems within NAS filers.

 

To unassign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS licenses from NAS filers

1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.

2. Click the License Keys node. The License Key Editor window appears.

3. Click next to Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS). The Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS) License Editor window appears. Use the Licensed column in this window to view the NAS filers to which licenses are currently assigned.

4. Uncheck the Licensed box next to a machine to remove the license for the NAS filer. When you remove the license for a NAS filer, the following occurs:

5. Select File > Save. When you remove the license for a NAS filer, the following occurs:

 

To set the login for NAS filers (Windows only)

1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.

2. Click the License Keys node. The License Key Editor window appears.

3. Click next to Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS). The Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS) License Editor window appears and displays all the NAS filers discovered by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.

4. Click the Filer Logins tab. The Filer Logins window appears and displays a list of licensed NAS filers. Because Unix Agents do not require password administration to access NAS Filer filesystems, any NAS filers accessible by Unix Agents within your environment will not appear in this window.

5. Highlight the row containing the NAS filer whose login ID and password you want to set and click Set login per row.

If you want to set the same login ID and password for multiple NAS filers, highlight the rows containing the entries for the filers using Shift+click or Ctrl+click and click Set login for all selected rows.

The File Login Editor window appears.

6. Enter a valid, fully-qualified user login ID and password for each of the listed NAS filers that do not accept the default login ID and password. The user logins must have permission to enumerate the filesystems in every NAS filer against which you want to run discovery.

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager uses the login/password you enter during the installation process or on the Filer Logins window to perform a:

The login/password must be valid for both the Agent and the NAS filer. If the user is not in the same domain as the NAS Filer, you must qualify the domain name in the user ID (for example, \tivoli\jsmith, \COMPANYABC\jdoe, etc).

7. Click Save. The Filer Logins window reappears and the new login ID(s) for the NAS filer(s) is displayed. After you set the logon ID and password for NAS filers that do not use the default settings, you must run a Discovery job against those filers. See the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS Component User Guide for more information.

 

To change the Default Logon ID and Password (Optional)

You can change the default logon ID and password that Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS Agents will use to log in to NAS filers at any time. To change the default ID and password, perform the following steps:

1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.

2. Click the License Keys node. The License Key Editor window appears.

3. Click next to Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS). The Tivoli Storage Resource Manager (NAS) License Editor window appears and displays all the NAS filers discovered by Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.

4. Click the Filer Logins tab. The Filer Logins window appears and displays a list of licensed NAS filers.

5. Click Update default login and password at the bottom of the window. The Default Login Editor window appears.

Note: Keep in mind that if a NAS filer does not accept the default logon ID and password from a Windows Agent, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager will be unable to discover its filesystems.  

6. Enter the default logon ID and password in the Logonid and Password fields. Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Agents will use this ID and password to log into NAS filers for which you have not specifically defined login information.

7. Click Save.