Conference noted::polycenter

820.0. "Performance Advisor - licensing" by VIRGIN::GEHRIG () Wed Mar 12 1997 09:09

As I have seen Polycenter Performance Advisor 2.3 will be supported on 
VMS 7.1 . I also read somewhere that CA would produce new licenses for 
the Polycenter products.

Lot's of customers are  paying maintenance (SUSL) for these products.
Will they receive the new versions and the new licenses without additional
charges ?

Beside the "standalone" products, the licenses for DECPS-DC and DECPS-PA are
also included in some NAS packages starting from NAS version 3.0 (VMS 5.5-2)
up to NAS version 8.1 (VMS 7.1)

One of our customers runs NET-APP-SUP-250 on about 1200 nodes. This license
includes the Polycenter Performance Advisor Data Collector. Will the customer
receive licenses for all these systems or will DECPS-DC still run with the
NET-APP-SUP-250 PAK ?

The same question must be asked for NET-APP-SUP-300 and NET-APP-SUP-400
where both, the Data Collector and the Performance Analyzer are included.
Our customer runs NAS300 and NAS400 on about 50 nodes.


Thanks,

Hanspeter

I will let Curtis Chase, the POLYCENTER MCS Product Manager, answer this one.

Jim

    Well, probably the discussions with CA are not finished yet but the
    customer likes to have an answer soon.
    He is affraid (so we are), that the Performance Advisor products will
    be taken away from the NAS-Licenses. On the other hand we have seen big
    price increases on these products (NAS250 was increased 75% over the
    last 4 month).
    Less value for a higher price ?
    
    Hanspeter

>>    He is affraid (so we are), that the Performance Advisor products will
>>    be taken away from the NAS-Licenses. On the other hand we have seen big

PA has already been pulled from the NAS licenses.

Jim