Or you can call your friendly IBM business partner, who will happily assay
your situation and give you a quote. TSM licensing is still changing, so
ask lots of questions.
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William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
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It was described in the IBM/Tivoli announcement letter for TSM V4. The
announcement letter was #200-245, but it's not that helpful - doesn't
contain actual point counts for anything but TSM servers and B/A clients.
On the Tivoli support website, there is now a "point calculator", although
it's not easy to find. Go here:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/documents
There is a link to "Tivoli Management Point Calculator", but you have to be
registered with an ID and password for the site to get it.
The point was (a pun! a pun!) to let you buy "points" instead of specific
licenses for TSM (and other Tivoli) stuff. That way if you want to move
your TSM server from one platform to another, you don't need a new server
license as long as you have enough points to cover the resulting
configuration. Or if you deside to stop using the DRM feature, you can use
those "points" for more clients. Whatever. (And DRM points ARE the same
as
TSM points...)
The plan is well-intentioned, but has caused MASSIVE confusion because it
is
not well documented. Using the point calculator customers can figure out
how many points you need to put together a new TSM configuration, but now
they can't figure costs for budget planning! (It was about 31$ per point
for TSM 4.1, but I don't know what it is for TSM 4.2). You pretty much
have
to work through a Tivoli rep to get a quote (if you can find one who will
return your phone call....).
And I don't think everyone is necessarily working on the "point" system yet
- depends on how you got your contract in the first place. People who were
on the "old" system with V3 and a maintenance contract that entitled them
to
an automatic upgrade to V4 are in an even MORE confusing situation - you
have to work with a Tivoli rep to decide how many "points" you are already
entitled to based on your existing maintenance contract....
Don't know if that helps or not, but there you are!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Derrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 6:31 AM
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Actually, one of my customers who uses Content Manager OnDemand in
combination with TSM used their points to supposedly license DRM on their
production system. Once I see paper proof of the license, I'll be sure to
forward the info to the group. As much as I like the guys at Tivoli Tech
Support, "The guy at tech support told me so. I think his name was Bob.
Maybe Bill. Y'know, it could have been Biff." doesn't sound like a legally
sound defense. =)
Personally, I wasn't aware of the points system. If anyone could provide
some docs or a link to a page explaining this frequent flyer program, I'd
appreciate it. =)
-JD.
>And you cannot use TSM points as DRM points, don't you?
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>Zlatko Krastev
>IT Consultant
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>"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.10.2001 22:47:48
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>But it IS included on the 4.1 media.
>You don't have to order any separate install media, you just have to pay
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>the license.
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>From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>DRM is a separately licensed product.
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>From: Nazir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:09 PM
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>Hi,
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>What do I need to work with DRM (Disaster Recovery Manager) ?
>Is It including on TSM 4.1 for Win NT ?
>And How Can I work with DRM and How does it work ?
>
>Thank you
>Nazir
