The big thing behind the "point system" is that you buy a bunch of Tivoli
points.
Now, you have them all sucked up in TSM, TWS (workload scheduler) and
software distribution.
You now expand your data center but a dozen machines but you've used up all
your points and you don't want to buy any more.
Looking into things you realize that on 20 existing machines you have NEVER
use software distribution SO you just drop it from those 20 machines and use
the "freed points" to apply towards TSM client & TWS points for your new 12
machines.
(I don't know the exact value of each of the products so I don't know if my
comparison is anywhere near accurate)
but you get the gist of things...
and as far as old machines go... the cost of support of older machines is
just another way to justify to management that they would be way ahead if
they would just give that old piece of #@$%^ to you and let you take it home
just to get it out of there ;-)
later,
Dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Point system has me very confused
Can somebody help me to understand this point/tier system. It understand
that sharing Tivoli pricing information is some kind of no-no, so please
feel free to reply off-list.
What I think I understand so far.
Workstation Clients ???
Tier 1 - 1 ~ 4 processors on Intel 32bit hardware.
Tier 2 - RISC or Intel 64bit - I assume 5 ~ 8 processor 32bit Intel boxes
as well.
Tier 3 - Greater than 8 processor??
In Tivoli pricing land, what is considered a "server". For example, I
don't think an RS/6000 Model B50 (piece of junk) with a 9GB drive used for
development work should be a Tier 2 machine. I don't even consider it a
Tier 1 machine. Even though it runs DB2, it is basically a workstation.
How many points is each tier worth, and where do normal workstation
machines fit in?
How many points is the TSM server itself? on a tier 1 (NT) server? on a
tier 2 (AIX) server?
How many points are the Data Protection products, specifically Domino?
What about DB2, do you just buy enough points to cover the tier of the
machine? Even if there is no plan to backup "files"
