Understanding Product Licensing Requirements

Before you can you Tivoli Storage Resource Manager products to monitor and manage your storage, you must ensure that your Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses are assigned correctly. The following table describes the license requirements for products within the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager suite:

Product

To license this product, you must...

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

1. purchase Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses

2. install Agents on the machines whose storage you want to monitor

3. assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the Agents that will monitor your storage

For NetWare (optional):

4. assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the NetWare servers you want to monitor

5. assign licensed Agents to the volumes within your NetWare servers

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases

1. purchase Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses

2. install Agents on the machines that contain the Instances you want to monitor

3. assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to the Agents on the machines that contain the Instances you want to monitor

4. register the Instances that you want licensed Agents to monitor

Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS Component

1. purchase Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager with NAS component licenses

2. install Agents on the machines from where those Agents will monitor NAS filers

3. assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the Agents that will monitor NAS filers (the Agents installed in step 2)

4. assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the NAS filers you want to monitor

5. assign licensed Agents to the filesystems within your NAS filers

 

See Configuration - License Keys for more information.