Re: One final Oracle LMS Audit Question (Proc metric and Named User servers)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:49:07 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sYvcbQN08fb0fSNeYTugWUAMjTgoqfi6OAUK4UmBFSEng_at_mail.gmail.com>
It appears that you have multiple CSIs with different license metrics and different licensable products. You'll need to gather all the license details and all the server details together and true up the license agreements with the estate. This is what the scary audit spreadsheet is useful for. Depending on complexity, and how much your proposed bill is!, you *might* benefit from a 3rd party Oracle partner that specializes in license management. When you've done that it sounds like it'll require a well prepared meeting including *both* LMS *and* your account rep as well as the appropriate people on your side, to do a careful walk through with them of what your CSI agreements are and how they match the estate - the aim should be to agree what the estate actually looks like .
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> We have Processor and Named-User licenses in our environment.
>
> We have 15 physical boxes.
>
> Unfortunately we had 2 Oracle databases get stood up on our VMWare farm -
> (before I got here!) so we'll put those aside for the time being.
>
> What LMS did in the report they sent us was to arbitrarily assign the
> Processor licenses to a box where we use Named-User licenses and they
> applied the Named-User licenses to the proc boxes we have.
>
> Basically we view SERVER_A and SERVER_B (RAC) as Processor Based Licensed,
> and SERVER_C (32 Procs) as our Named-User server (and we have the minimums
> required).
>
> HOWEVER, in the LMS report, they used SERVER_C as our Proc Based Server
> and show it as being short, and used SERVER_A + SERVER_B (RAC) as our
> Named-User Servers.
>
> Has anyone experienced that behavior from LMS before? How did you "fight"
> it?
>
> Chris
>
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Apr 09 2015 - 15:49:07 CEST