I seem to recall seeing somewhere (Maybe on this list?) that Tivoli is still wrestling with that question.
I may be wrong, but what I'm seeing so far leads me to believe that if we were to go out and license TSM for our shop NOW, without benefit of upgrades and Passport Advantage -- we wouldn't be able to cost-justify it. Even if there were NO alternative. I won't know for sure until I see some intelligible documentation on the pricing (I should point out that I have yet to see anything *useable* on TSM pricing for the 4.x series beside what you provided a while back . . . certainly nothing from Tivoli or IBM). Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what "processor" mean > > > Tim, thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of TSM > clients in the > generic sense, not the license sense. > > Does anybody have a clear sense of how existing environments > VBP license's > are migrated to the new scheme? > > _____________________________ > William Mansfield > Senior Consultant > Solution Technology, Inc > > > > > > "Rushforth, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 04/25/2002 02:16 PM > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what > "processor" mean > > > Check the definitions > (http://www.tivoli.com/products/licensing/enhanced-vbp-definit ions.doc). "For IBM Tivoli products, processors installed in servers require licensing." "A server is a computer system that provides services to one or more clients and/or other devices over a network. Examples include, but are not limited to, file servers, print servers, mail servers, database servers, application servers, and Web servers." So the NT clients would not require Processor licenses (unless they are acting as a "Server"!) - but would require a Client license ("A client is a computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system that is typically referred to as a server.") -----Original Message----- From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what "processor" mean AFAIK, you count all processors, TSM server and TSM clients. If you have a 2-processor Unix server and 10 1-processor NT clients, you have 12 processors. You them multiple by the right $ amount depending on whether you are "regular" or "enterprise edition". _____________________________ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc 630 718 4238
