Re: One final Oracle LMS Audit Question (Proc metric and Named User servers)

Are you using an Oracle partner or are you interfacing directly with Oracle? If it is the latter, I would suggest you talk to a partner who specializes in licensing. Working directly with Oracle is like defending yourself in court. Without a lawyer who knows the law in and out, has a relationship with the judge and most importantly, works for you (not the plaintiff)...well, you know the rest of that sentence.

If LMS is telling you something that you know is wrong, you need to talk to Oracle Legal which probably requires a lawyer. It shouldn't have to go this far and probably won't if you have an advocate (see previous paragraph).

Seth Miller

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> We did that first thing and got NO WHERE. Not even a new audit report or
> anything. It was like spitting into the wind.
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> Chris
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
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>> I would start by informing them of their error with the information below.
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris Taylor
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 09, 2015 9:32 AM
>> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> *Subject:* One final Oracle LMS Audit Question (Proc metric and Named
>> User servers)
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>> We have Processor and Named-User licenses in our environment.
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>> We have 15 physical boxes.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> Has anyone experienced that behavior from LMS before? How did you
>> "fight" it?
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>> Chris
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