On an AIXv5.2 system, that has power5 processors,
I issue the lscfg | grep proc and get
+ proc0
Processor
+ proc2
Processor
+ proc4
Processor

lsattr -El proc0
frequency 1904448000 Processor Speed False
state enable Processor state False
type PowerPC_POWER5 Processor type False

QUESTION- Is this processor above 1 CORE or is this 2 CORES?

If answer is 1, is there a definitive document I could use
for audit/license purposes?

THANKS!

if it's a power5 then i'd assume that the CPUs are dual core... but it's not like windows systems where a dual core processor will be viewed as two processors to the OS.

i don't know oracle's licensing policies, but from other software that i've dealt with, noone deals with the number of cores a processor has... most only deal with how many processors the OS sees. so in your case, 3 processors (looks like it's a 3 proc LPAR).

you may need to ask oracle about how it deals with the P-series/AIX capacity on demand issues, LPARs, and micro partitioning.

From: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pric...ticore_faq.pdf