The KPMG type is dinging me for when I will get the revised spreadsheet back to him -- so I looked at it again -- and my brain broke.
They want the count of _processor chips_ and the number of cores on each. The straight answer for the RS-6000 is "I just don't know". We ordered some number of dual-cpu features on the P5 systems; AIX is telling me I have that count of CPUs (and, because I have SMT on, nmon gives me twice this count). Short of opening the box, I've got no good way to answer the question. And even then . . . they're asking the wrong question. There are some number of CPU chips in a CPU module (quick -- no research -- the 55Q is a quad-cpu system; the cpu chips are smaller. Are there two cpu modules with two chips each or one module with 4 chips?) In any case, I should be able to get whatever the silly metric is by doing a query node f=d, or matching select. And this, of course, breaks big-time as soon as you start running under vmware ESX or any of the unix-related lpar environments. BTW -- yesterday IBM announced that the p6 systems will be rated at 120 value units per core. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Lost in TSM licensing Not to mention that it's just Too Silly. The client already reports back to the server what platform it is. It's not like the client doesn't know, or can't find out, the information that the server needs to have. W >>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:19:44 +0100, Matthew Warren >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hmm, there is always a scheduled TSM command that send's it's output to >> a >> file you have rights to look at later? > >> On occaision for small adhoc tasks I have used the TSM scheduler to >> initiate a command on a client, when I've needed to do the same thing >> across a lot of nodes. > >> as TSM administrator, you could send the output to a file, let tsm back >> it >> up, and then restore it elsewhere to get at it, if you really really had >> to! > > > This is true. I prefer to strongly de-emphasize the extent to which > I've root-kitted all my clients boxes. Going behind the admin's back > to do some administrative operation you dreamed up doesn't endear one. > > I once used TSM to get myself an Xterm on a box for which the root > password had been lost. Even when I was coming to aid in an > emergency, the looks were ... thoughtful. > > If this were an IBM-supplied, IBM-approved analysis tool, then it > would at least not be 4000 admins cobbling together 4000 different > ways to extract the information and inflicting them on an unawares > population. > > > - Allen S. Rout > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
