Hi Zlatko: Where did you find the definitions for "Processors" and "Clients".
Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what "processor" mean (RESOLVED) Hello fellow *SMers, even if I do not like the answer we've found it. According to IBM EMEA Announcement Letter ZP02-0172 (http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealets&parms=H_ERIFZP020172), Section "Ordering IBM Tivoli Products" "One or more charge units are associated with each product. These charge units are: - Processors managed by the product - Clients managed by the product - Distributed servers managed by the product - zSeries processors managed by the product - Processors in which the managing server is installed" Processors are based upon TSM server and TSM *nodes* processors if they are servers in customer application environment. If it is a workstation (appl. client) it requires "client" license and no "processors". So if we have an (imaginary) ISM installation consisting of dual-processor TSM server, cluster of two four-processor Oracle servers, uniprocessor file server, uniprocessor MDC and 20 dual-processor Xeon/2GHz CAD stations, we would need 12 "processor" and 20 "client" charge units for IBM TSM (5698-ISM) or IBM TSM EE (5698-ISE) and (optional) eight processors for IBM TSM for Databases (5698-APD). Right now I cannot calculate all possible configurations nor predict any averages or stats but for some configurations price would change slightly while for some others will drop significantly. OTOH I can make (not so) artificial configuration which would have an increased price. This raises the issue how to migrate Tivoli Management Points from Value-Based Pricing to Processors and Clients in Enhanced VBP. Also another question to ask is - does a customer need to buy additional licenses to keep its license compliance. This is another story and I have to dig more. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant
