Through the License Keys node, you can administer the license keys for Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases. Specifically, you can:
assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to your Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Agents
edit, add, and delete the Instances within your organization that you want to monitor
view the number of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses you purchased
view the number of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses that are not currently assigned (unused) to Agents
Before you can use Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Agents to manage the storage within your Oracle Instances, you must:
Assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to the Agents that will be monitoring Oracle Instances.
Register the Instances on the machines that contain licensed Agents.
Typically, you assign licenses to Agents and register Instances during the installation process. However, if you wish to update or change licenses after the Agents are installed, you can perform the following license administration:
To assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to installed Agents
Before you can assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases license to an Agent, you must first assign a Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license to that Agent. See the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager License Administration section for instructions on how to assign a Tivoli Storage Resource Manager license to an Agent.
1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.
2. Click the License Keys node. The License Keys window appears.
3 .Click next to Tivoli
Storage Resource Manager for Databases. The Tivoli
Storage Resource Manager for Databases License Editor window appears.
If you have unused Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses, continue to the next step.
If you do not have any unused licenses and want to assign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses to other Agents, you must purchase additional licenses or remove them from existing Agents. To purchase additional licenses of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases, contact your IBM Tivoli representative. To unassign licenses from Agents, see the following section To unassign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases licenses.
4. Click the check box in the Licensed column next to the computer containing the Instance you want to monitor.
5. Select File > Save to save the updated license settings.
If an Instance is registered on the machine where you licensed the Agent, you are ready to set up your Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases jobs to monitor its storage. If an Instance is not registered in the machine where you licensed the Agent, see the following section To register the Instances on the machines that contain licensed Agents.
To unassign Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Database licenses
1. Expand the Administrative Services > Configuration > General nodes.
2. Click the License Keys node. The License Keys window appears.
3. Click next to Tivoli
Storage Resource Manager for Databases. The Tivoli
Storage Resource Manager for Databases License Editor window appears.
Use the Licensed column in this
window to view the Agents to which licenses are currently assigned.
4. Uncheck the Licensed box next to a machine to remove the license for the Agent on that machine.
5. Click on the toolbar or select File > Save. When you remove the license for an Agent the following occurs:
All the data gathered by that Agent for the Instance it monitors is removed from the Enterprise Repository
You can no longer run Monitoring, Alerting, or Policy Management jobs against the Instance on the machine where the Agent was located
The number of unused licenses increases by one
To register the Instances on the machines that contain licensed Agents
1. Click the RDBMS Logins tab on the Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases for Oracle License Editor window. The RDBMS Logins window appears.
Use this window to edit, add, and delete the Instances within your organization that you want to monitor. For each Instance, you must enter a Host Name, SID, DBA User/password, and port on which the Instance is listening for requests.
2. Click Add New to add a new Oracle Instance. The RDBMS Login Editor window is displayed. Use this window to enter information about the database Instance that you want Tivoli Storage Resource Manager to monitor.
Note: In an Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) environment, you only need to register one of the Instances within that environment. Oracle Parallel Server is a resource-sharing system that increases availability and performance by partitioning the workload across multiple servers of a cluster (nodes).
3. Select the name of the machine where the Oracle instance is running from the Host Name drop-down list box.
Note: You can only register Instances on machines that contain licensed Agents.
4. Enter the Oracle SID for the Instance in the Oracle SID field.
5. Enter a user ID that has DBA privileges within the Oracle instance in the Oracle User field. The following privileges are required for this user ID:
CONNECT
SELECT ANY TABLE
ANALYZE ANY
6. Enter a password for the Oracle User ID in the Password field.
7. Enter the port on which the Instance is listening in the Port field. The default port is 1521.
8. Select File > Save to save to Instance configuration information.