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Licensing Tivoli Storage Manager

This section describes the tasks involved when licensing a Tivoli Storage Manager system, including registering, saving and auditing.

Task Required Privilege Class
Register licenses
Audit licenses
System
Display license information Any administrator

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

The base Tivoli Storage Manager feature includes the following support:

Registering Licensed Features

You must register a new license if you want to add support for any of the following features that are not already in your existing license agreement. A license file and the REGISTER LICENSE command are used to complete this task.

Table 24. Registering Licensed Features

License File Name Description
MANAGEDSYSLAN To license Managed System for LAN. Tivoli Storage Manager requires one license for each managed system (client) that moves data to and from storage over a LAN. Tivoli Storage Manager also requires one Managed System for LAN license for each of the following licenses:
  • Tivoli Space Manager. Tivoli Storage Manager 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.
DRM To license Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager.
SPACEMGMT To license Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients).
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.

Notes:

  1. You can also obtain licenses for features and register those licenses by specifying these keywords in the LICENSE server option.

  2. The REGISTER LICENSE command adds license statements to the server options file. The OPT DD card in the server startup JCL must include the DISP=MOD parameter.

  3. The server options file must be a physical sequential (PS) data set.

To register a license, you must issue the REGISTER LICENSE command as well as the license file associated with the license.

For example, to register Tivoli Storage Manager for 30 managed systems that move data over a local area network, issue the following commands:

If you wanted to use Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager and two Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients), for example, issue the following commands:

register license drm
register license spacemgmt 2
register license managedsyslan 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 20
 

Monitoring Licenses

When 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 license terms. The results of an 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 a Tivoli Storage Manager system exceeds the terms of its license agreement, one of the following occurs:

You must contact your Tivoli Storage Manager account representative to modify your agreement.

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 AUDITSTORAGE 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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