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Re: Number of Used Seats Audit

Where do we find these definitions?

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Kirk Goins
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Date: 12/14/2011 10:56AM
Subject: Re: Number of Used Seats Audit

It doesn't... It's basically the honor system. IBM does reserve the right
to audit the system under its license agreement.  Another point a 'user' is
someone who has been authenticated by either the OS or an application that
access the OS.  So a System running say DOMINO where no one other than the
admins log in to the green screen, still need licensing for the number of
'concurrent' users accessing Domino. Same applies to a multi-tiered app
like SAP. Even though only user 'sapuser' is the only profile access the OS
for database calls, by the rules as I understand them each Real User that
has authenticated up the chain needs to be counted as an OS user.



On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. <
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How does it know that 'YOU' are the same person on all 16 sessions when
there are 4 different IP addresses and 16 different user profiles?

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Kirk Goins
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Date: 12/13/2011 01:13PM
Subject: Re: Number of Used Seats Audit

Remember OS licenses are NOT by Session. They are by Persons. Example 'I'
can sign on from 4 different PCs at my desk and start 4 sessions on each of
those devices all with a different user profiles( 16 sessions and profiles
total ) but 'I' only need '1' license as long as no one else uses all those
sessions. OS also only counts profiles that do not start with a 'Q' when it
calcs the number of users ( profiles )


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:48 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That looks about right to me.  An lpar on my 8203-E4A shows:
Product ID  . . . . . . . . :   5770SS1
License term  . . . . . . . :   V7
Feature . . . . . . . . . . :   5052
Description . . . . . . . . :   IBM i

Compliance type . . . . . . :   *KEYED
Usage type  . . . . . . . . :   *REGISTERED

Usage limit . . . . . . . . :   *NOMAX
Last update . . . . . . . . :   10/02/10  20:47:51

Threshold . . . . . . . . . :   *NOMAX

Usage Count Information:
 All partitions  . . . . . :   752.00
 Local partition . . . . . :   27.00

I can't fathom this lpar ever having 27 interactive sessions on it.  It
only runs Domino.  QCTLSBSD is still at QBASE.  Nothing of interest there
for any programmer who knows what a 5250 session is.  Definitely of no
interest to a user with a 5250 session.

Now, my big 9117-MMA doesn't even show Feature 5052 on WRKLICINF.  I am
thinking there's two ways to do control interactive usage.  Some hardware
or some software.

Back on the 8203 I tried the audit.  Peak Usage Count date/time must not
be when the peak usage actually occurred, just when they recorded the
count for that month.  The reason I say this is because that is at end of
month.  And this is a H/A and Domino backup machine.  We're never running
on it during end of month.  We do our switches at other times.


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From:   Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:   12/13/2011 10:29 AM
Subject:        Re: Number of Used Seats Audit
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Brian, believe this is what your talking about.

wrklicinf, look for option 5052, hit f-11 will show you the numbers, then
hit F23 until you see option 11 to print audit information.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Brian Piotrowski <
bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

When we purchased our new Power7 box IBM had a new policy in place
where
you need to purchased "seats" (individual licenses) for each terminal
session that connects to the 400.  I'm wondering if anyone knows if
there
is an audit tool that is built into the OS (v6.1) that lets you know
how
many licenses have been consumed?  I want to ensure that we are still
in
compliance with the number of sessions vs. the number of seats we
purchased.

Thankee-sai!

/b;

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