Tivoli Storage Manager for MVS and OS/390 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

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 .

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 to modify your agreement.

Licensed Features

The Tivoli Storage Manager feature includes the following support:

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:

Note:TSM requires one Managed System for LAN license for each Tivoli Data Protection client.

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 features and register those licenses by specifying the following keywords in the REGISTER LICENSE command or in the LICENSE server option.

Note:TSM also requires one Managed System for LAN license for each of the following licenses:
  • Tivoli Space Manager. TSM requires only one Managed System for LAN license if an HSM client and backup-archive client are on the same system with the same node ID.
  • Tivoli Data Protection.
  • AFS/DFS Support.

SPACEMGMT
To license Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients).

DRM
To license Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager.

MANAGEDSYSLAN
To license Managed System for LAN. TSM requires one license for each managed system (client) that moves data to and from storage over a LAN.

ORACLEAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle.

MSSQLAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for MS SQL Server.

MSEXCHANGEAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange.

LOTUSNOTESAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Notes.

DOMINOAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino.

INFORMIXAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Informix.

R3APPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for R/3.

ESSAPPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for ESS.

ESSR3APPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for ESS R/3.

EMCSYMMETRIXR3APPL
To license each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for EMC Symmetrix R/3.

AFSDFS
To license each managed system that uses AFS/DFS Support.
The REGISTER LICENSE command dynamically adds license statements to the server options file. The OPT DD card in the server start-up JCL must include the DISP=MOD parameter.
Note:The server options file must be a physical sequential (PS) data set.

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

register license drm
register license spacemgmt number=2
register license managedsyslan number=2

You could also include the following statements in the server options file:

license drm 
license spacemgmt 2
license managedsyslan 2

To register 20 managed systems that move data over a local area network, issue the following command:

register license managedsyslan number=20
 

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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