Administrator's Guide
This section describes the tasks of licensing a TSM system and monitoring
the licenses.
Task
| Required Privilege Class
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Register licenses
Audit licenses
Schedule automatic license audits
| System
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Display license information
| Any administrator
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If a TSM system exceeds the terms of its license agreement, one of the
following occurs:
- The server issues a warning message indicating that it is not in
compliance with the licensing terms.
- Operations fail because the server is not licensed for specific
features.
For details, see License Compliance. In either case, you must contact your TSM account
representative to modify your agreement.
The base TSM server license supports the following:
- An unlimited number of administrative clients, and one backup-archive
client.
- Enterprise Administration, which includes: command routing,
enterprise configuration, and enterprise logging (server-to-server).
- Server-to-server Virtual Volume capabilities (does not include database
and storage pool backup).
For current information about supported clients and devices, visit the TSM
page on the World Wide Web at
http://www.tivoli.com/tsm.
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:
- Additional backup-archive clients. The base TSM license supports
one backup-archive client.
- OpenSystem environment.
- Tivoli Space Manager (HSM client), also known as space-managed
clients.
- Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM), includes server-to-server virtual
volumes for database and storage pool backup.
- For additional licenses that are available, check the documentation that
comes with your server.
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.
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:
- CLIENTSnumber
- Additional backup-archive clients
- OPENSYSTEMS
- OpenSystem MVS client support
- SPACEMGMT
- Tivoli Space Manager (HSM clients)
- DRM
- Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
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.
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You can register one or more of these features. For example, if you
wanted to use Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager and Tivoli Space Manager (HSM
client), issue the following commands:
register license drm
register license spacemgt
You could also include the following statements in the server options
file:
license drm
license spacemgt
An administrator can monitor license compliance by:
- Auditing licenses
- Use the AUDIT LICENSES command 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.
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- 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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