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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. Licenses are stored in enrollment certificate files, which contain licensing information for the server product. The enrollment certificate files are on the installation CD-ROM. When registered, the licenses are stored in a NODELOCK file within the current directory.

Table 29. Licensed Features

License File Name Description
mgsyslan.lic Managed System for LAN
mgsyssan.lic Managed System for SAN

Required for each storage agent. The Tape Library Sharing feature is required on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.

Tivoli Storage Manager requires this license for each client using server-free data movement.

spacemgr.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Space Manager

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you are using a communication protocol other than shared memory. Only one Managed System for LAN license is required if an HSM client and backup-archive client are on the same system with the same node ID.

domino.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

emcsymm.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for EMC Symmetrix

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

emcsymr3.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for EMC Symmetrix R/3

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

ess.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for ESS

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

essr3.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for ESS R/3

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

informix.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Informix

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

lnotes.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Notes

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

msexch.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

mssql.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for MS SQL Server

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

oracle.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

r3.lic Each managed system that uses Tivoli Data Protection for R/3

Also required: Managed System for LAN license if you use a communication protocol other than shared memory.

library.lic Managed Library

Required for each library in the Extended Device Category that is managed by a Tivoli Storage Manager server. For current information on supported devices, visit the TSM page on the World Wide Web at http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.

drm.lic Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (includes server-to-server virtual volumes for database and storage pool backup)

Required on a source server but not on a target server.

ndmp.lic Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP

Required on a Tivoli Storage Manager server that performs backup and restore operations of a NAS file server, using Network Data Management Protocol.

libshare.lic Tape Library Sharing

Required on a Tivoli Storage Manager server that can access a shared library, including the library manager. The Managed Library license is required only on the library manager.

To register a license, you must issue the REGISTER LICENSE command as well as the license file associated with the license. For example, to use the Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager and two Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients), issue the following commands:

register license file(drm.lic)
register license file(spacemgr.lic) number=2
register license file(mgsyslan.lic) number=2

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

register license file(mgsyslan.lic) number=20

To register 10 Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Notes clients that move data over a LAN, using the TCP/IP communication protocol, issue the following commands:

register license file(lnotes.lic) number=10
register license file(mgsyslan.lic) number=10

With the exception of the ndmp.lic, drm.lic and libshare.lic, you can specify any number of license files to register. Always specify the total number of licenses you want registered. The REGISTER LICENSE command updates the nodelock file based on the total number of licenses you want registered. If you enter number=0 for a particular license, the license is unregistered. If you have twenty licenses and require ten additional licenses, you must register thirty.

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

register license file(mgsyslan.lic) number=30
 

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: Tivoli Storage Manager licenses are associated with the CPU chip of the machine on which Tivoli Storage Manager is installed. If you change that CPU chip, you must first erase the existing nodelock files and then reregister all your licenses.

Saving Your Licenses

Save the CD-ROM containing your enrollment certificate files. You may you need to register your licenses again for any of the following reasons:

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 or authorized reseller 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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