Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
- Creating and viewing the licensing report
- Reviewing a capacity licensing report
- Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
- Reviewing a traditional licensing report
- Additional configuration
- About dynamic host name and IP addressing
- About busy file processing on UNIX clients
- About the Shared Storage Option
- About configuring the Shared Storage Option in NetBackup
- Viewing SSO summary reports
- About the vm.conf configuration file
- Holds Management
- Menu user interfaces on UNIX
- About the tpconfig device configuration utility
- About the NetBackup Disk Configuration Utility
- Reference topics
- Host name rules
- About reading backup images with nbtar or tar32.exe
- Factors that affect backup time
- NetBackup notify scripts
- Media and device management best practices
- About TapeAlert
- About tape drive cleaning
- How NetBackup reserves drives
- About SCSI persistent reserve
- About the SPC-2 SCSI reserve process
- About checking for data loss
- About checking for tape and driver configuration errors
- How NetBackup selects media
- About Tape I/O commands on UNIX
Tools for creating licensing reports
NetBackup provides the following tools to gather backup data information and create licensing reports.
NetBackup 8.1.2 automatically collects and includes https://taas.veritas.com.
information in the NetBackup web UI. The usage report displays trends and details on the NetBackup data that is protected including data size, master server, and policy type. This information is used with the Smart Meter tool to compare backup size data with your capacity licensing. For more information, see the NetBackup Web UI Backup Administrator's Guide andThe nbdeployutil utility is a command-line tool that can gather backup size data and create a licensing report. The command generates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to review. In NetBackup 8.1.2, the nbdeployutil utility automatically gathers backup size data. You can then use this utility to:
Run capacity licensing reports on an incremental schedule.
Manually generate reports for traditional or for capacity licensing.
Create custom capacity license reports. For example, for a set of clients or for a business unit.
OpsCenter also provides an licensing reporting interface that is useful for multi-server environments. You must run reports manually in OpsCenter.