The LCM tool is indeed free of charge but only looks at IBM products. There is "fee/cahrge" product for license management that looks at all vendor software.
The concept of sub-cap pricing is to allow the customer to pay for only those VM or LPARs software is running on (ie WAS, WebLogic, MQ, DataBases etc) rather than the entire physical host. The results can be a measureable reduction in software costs. For any customer to take advantage of the pricing scheme, they must be able to validate the actual deployments of software. LMT gathers installation information as well as the partioning/ virtualization and generates the Audit reports to demonstrate compliance. For this to work a SOFTWARE CATALOGUE and a VALUE UNIT TABLE (VIRTUALIZATION) are supplied by IBM for the LMT product (also no charge). As one person indicated - you can spend the time each quarter to pull together the deployment information, run through the virtualization routines to provide a BEST GUESS for reporting to IBM and other vendors. You also use a license compliance/ reporting tool instead to minimize the collection and reporting times.[/list] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +----------------------------------------------------------------------
