Through the License Key Editor node, you can administer the license keys for IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager. Specifically, you can:
assign and unassign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to your agents
assign and unassign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to your NetWare Servers
view the number of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses you purchased
view the number of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses that are not currently assigned (unused) to Agents
Before you can use agents to manage the storage within your environment, you must assign a IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license to each of those agents.
Note: The IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license provides the foundation on which you license and run other products. To monitor storage for different devices (Oracle Instances, Netware Servers, NAS filers, etc.), you must assign a IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license and the appropriate product license (IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases, IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS component, etc.) to the corresponding agent and/or device. See the Understanding Product Licensing Requirements section for more information.
To assign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to Agents
1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.
2. Click the License Keys node. The License Keys window appears.
3. Click next to IBM Tivoli
SRM. The IBM Tivoli SRM License Editor window
appears and lists all the machines on which IBM Tivoli Storage Resource
Manager agents are installed.
If you have unused IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses, continue to the next step.
If you do not have any unused licenses and want to assign licenses to other agents, you must purchase additional licenses or remove them from existing agents. To purchase additional licenses of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, contact your IBM representative. To unassign licenses from agents, see the following section, To unassign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses.
4. Click the check box in the column next to the computer containing the agent you want to license.
5. Select File > Save to save the license settings.
To unassign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses
When you remove an IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license from an agent (or NetWare server), keep in mind the following:
All the data gathered by the agent (or for the volumes within a NetWare server) is removed from the Enterprise Repository
Any other product licenses assigned to that Agent (for example, IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases, IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager NAS component, etc) are also removed and their corresponding data erased from the Enterprise Repository
You can no longer run Monitoring and Policy Management jobs against the machine or NetWare server
The number of unused licenses increases by one
1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.
2. Click the License Keys node. The License Keys window appears.
3. Click next to IBM Tivoli SRM. The Licensing window appears. Use
the Licensed column in this window to view the agents to which licenses
are currently assigned.
4. Uncheck the IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Licensed box next to a machine to remove the license for the agent on that machine (or NetWare server).
5. Select File > Save to save the license settings.
To license IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for use with NetWare Servers
To monitor the storage on a NetWare server, you must:
assign a IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license to the NetWare server you want to monitor.
assign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses to the agents that will monitor NetWare servers. The agents you want to license for use with NetWare servers must be on a machine that:
is running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 or above and Service Pack 4.0 or above. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager gathers detailed storage information about NetWare servers and volumes using native NetWare calls from these Windows machine(s).
has an installed NetWare Client.
has access to the Novell NetWare servers and volumes within your environment.
Perform the following steps to license IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for use with NetWare servers.
1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.
2. Click the License Keys node. The License Keys window appears.
3. Click next to IBM Tivoli
SRM. The Tivoli Storage Resource Manager License
Editor window appears and lists all the machines on which IBM Tivoli
Storage Resource Manager agents are installed.
If you have unused IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses, continue to the next step.
If you do not have any unused licenses and want to assign licenses to other agents, you must purchase additional licenses or remove them from existing agents. To purchase additional licenses of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, contact your IBM representative. To unassign licenses from agents, see the To unassign IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager licenses section.
4. Click the check box in the column next to the computers containing the agents that will monitor the volumes within NetWare servers.
5. Click the check box in the column next to the NetWare servers that you want to monitor.
6. Select File > Save to save the license settings.
7. Assign the agents you licensed to the volumes within the NetWare servers you want to monitor. See the Scan/Probe Agent Administration window for information on how to assign licensed agents to NetWare volumes.