AMEN, Hallelujah.... I have over 1000 clients just at my site and multiple sites around the world that I have to do this on.
If Tivoli wants to change it's licensing schema to something like: per/client, or nodes, or CPUs, or GB, or by "number of angels that can fit on the head of a pin", they NEED to give us folks on the front lines for their products a tool that will help us determine if we are "legal". The TSM client reports the host type, the OS, the TSM client version, heck, it should be able to report the # of CPUs (according to the latest "weighting" document they have produced for different types of CPUs). IBM, are you listening? Help us get an accurate count so you can extract all the money out of us that you deserve ;-) Ben -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for you I guess I shouldn't feel so bad then, we only have 2 servers and a couple hundred clients. I've been giving the guy from KPMG a hard time, lol. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for you Mark, We went through one of these about four months ago. It took us weeks to get CPU counts of all the servers in a 1200 TSM client environment with 13 TSM servers spread out over 4 states. If all we had to do was count how many clients of each type we had, it could have been done in an hour, but NOOOOO, we had get various admins across the enterprise to find out how many CPUs were in each one. It was a huge pain. It was made worse by things like Intel servers with hyper-threaded CPUs, that look like 4 CPUs to Windows, even though there are really only 2 CPUs installed. Now we have a process in place wherein every time we define a new TSM client we update a spreadsheet, a master licensing spreadsheet, if you will. We don't want to EVER have to go through the manual audit again. Is IBM listening, I hope? IBM's licensing strategy should be greatly simplified, or based on something that the TSM client itself could track and report. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Sr. System Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO. 63127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 314-364-3150, Cell: 314-486-2359 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Question for you Has anyone else ever gotten a TSM License Review request from KPMG? I'm wondering what my legal obligations are because they want me to fill out a spreadsheet with all the nodes on our network which would be very time consuming. Has anyone else gone through this recently? Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. Please be advised that someone other than the intended recipients, including a third-party in the Seligman organization and government agencies, may review all electronic communications to and from this address. Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. Please be advised that someone other than the intended recipients, including a third-party in the Seligman organization and government agencies, may review all electronic communications to and from this address.