2.1 Licensing Overview

Novell Storage Manager has three license types:

Table 2-1 Novell Storage Manager License Types

License Type

Target Consumer

Intended Use

Evaluation

Customers

Allows customers to develop and understanding of the power of the product.

Assessment

Partners

Produces reports that allow customers to see the scope of file system management problems in their environment.

Shows examples of how a policy-based infrastructure can benefit the customer’s environment.

Production

Customers

Allows customers to create and run a policy-based infrastructure in production in their environment.

The following table includes a summary of the features enabled in each license type:

Table 2-2 Enabled Features

Feature

Evaluation License

Assessment License

Production License

Consistency Check Reports

Limited to 100 objects in a report

Yes

Yes

Anomaly Reports

Limited to 100 rows in a report

Yes

Yes

Trustee Reports

No

Yes

Yes

Policy Path Reporter (integrated with Novell File Reporter)

Limited to 100 rows in a report

Yes

Yes

Data Migration

No

No

Yes

Redistribution

No

No

Yes

Managed Objects

Limited to 100 concurrent objects

Limited to 100 concurrent objects

Yes

Manage Operations

Check mode can be run for multiple objects simultaneously, but management action can be taken for only one object at a time.

Check mode can be run for multiple objects simultaneously, but management action can be taken for only one object at a time.

Yes

Action Object Support

No

No

Yes