Administrator's Guide


Tivoli Storage Manager Licensing

This section describes the tasks of licensing a TSM system and monitoring the licenses.

Task Required Privilege Class
Register licenses

Audit licenses

Schedule automatic license audits

System
Display license information Any administrator

If a TSM system exceeds the terms of its license agreement, one of the following occurs:

For details, see License Compliance. In either case, you must contact your TSM account representative to modify your agreement.

Licensed Features

The base TSM server license supports the following:

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:

License Compliance

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.

Registering Licensed Features

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.

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

Monitoring Licenses

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.

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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