> Behalf Of Len Boyle >Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:22 PM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: Lost in TSM licensing
Yes the number of processors does include the ht processor count. This a dual 3.60GHz Intel Xeon (Hyper- Threaded) machine. The issue to me here isn't whether you can get CPU information from a windows server, you can, it's how to deal with having hundreds, if not thousands, of systems and needing to extract that info for an audit which IBM and others seems to think will generate thousands of dollars in unpaid licenses. It's ridiculous to me that the so called brilliant person who thought up such a stupid licensing scheme didn't think to include in the product a way to report that information to the server so it could be easily extracted.(Not that I would have trusted them either). At least with 3.1 I knew how much it costs to add a node without having to ask 20 questions first. If you want to sell a product (IBM) on its many features why does one of them have to be for you to figure out "manually" how much it costs to license it? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
