Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About storage configuration
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
Managing license keys on the NetBackup appliance
The following procedures describe how to view, add, and delete NetBackup option license keys through the NetBackup Appliance Web Console (web console) or the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (shell menu).
To obtain the appropriate licenses for your environment, see the following article:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100048764
Note:
Starting with appliance release 5.1.1, license management is supported only on the primary server. On an appliance media server, the
tab in the web console provides no information or functionality.To add license keys through the web console
- Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
- Click Manage > License
All installed license keys, associated feature IDs, and associated feature names are displayed.
- To add new license keys, do the following:
Click Add. The following warning message is displayed:
This operation restarts NetBackup processes after the licenses have been added successfully. The NetBackup domain does not run any job during this time. Are you sure you want to proceed?
Click Yes.
In the Add License Key dialog box, enter the license key in the Key field for the selected server.
Click OK.
To delete a license key through the web console
- Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
- Click Manage > License.
All installed license keys, associated feature IDs, and associated feature names are displayed.
- In the Key column, select the license keys that you want to delete by selecting the check box next to the license key number.
- Click Delete.
The following message is displayed:
Deleting the selected license(s) will disable related features in NetBackup. This operation restarts NetBackup processes after the licenses have been deleted successfully. The NetBackup domain does not run any job during this time. Are you sure you want to proceed?
- Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
To view, add, and delete license keys through the shell menu
- To view a list of all installed license keys or view the details of each key, enter one of the following commands:
Main_Menu > Manage > License > Appliance > List
Main_Menu > Manage > License > NetBackup > List
A complete list of installed license keys appears.
Main_Menu > Manage > License > Appliance > ListInfo
Main_Menu > Manage > License > NetBackup > ListInfo
The associated feature IDs and feature names appear.
- To add license keys, do the following:
Enter one of the following commands:
Main_Menu > Manage > License > Appliance > Add
Main_Menu > Manage > License > NetBackup > Add
Enter the license key for the option that you want to install, then press Enter.
To add another license key, press y.
Repeat the previous step or press n to exit.
- To delete license keys, do the following:
Enter one of the following commands:
Main_Menu > Manage > License > Appliance > Remove
Main_Menu > Manage > License > NetBackup > Remove
Enter the license key for the option that you want to remove. Then press Enter.
To remove another license key, press y.
Repeat the previous step or press n to exit.