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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

Last Published: 2021-06-07

Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)

Creating and viewing the licensing report

After gathering data for the licensing report, use the --report - - traditional or the - - capacity option to generate the licensing report. You can create a report for any of the following:

A single master server.
Several master servers.
A specific subset of clients. For example, a report that contains capacity usage for business unit billing.

Creating a report using data that is collected for the local master server

The - -gather --capacity command is run for master server pnnbcsm5b38v002:

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\
admincmd>netbackup_deployment_insights --gather --capacity
NetBackup Deployment Insights, version 9.1
Gathering license deployment information...
  Discovered master server pnnbcsm5b38v002

Enter credentials for Master Server(s): 

Master Server:pnnbcsm5b38v002
Domain Type (NIS, NISPLUS, WINDOWS, vx, unixpwd, ldap):WINDOWS
Domain Name  :pnnbcsm5b38v002
User Name    :administrator
Password     :

Data gather is in progress. This process might take some time.
  Output for pnnbcsm5b38v002 at: 
C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\var\global\reports\
20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002
Gather DONE
Execution time: 36 secs
To create a report for this master server, run the following:
  netbackup_deployment_insights.exe --report --capacity 
"C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\var\global\reports\
20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002"

To create a capacity report based on the data gathered, the tool tells you what command you need to run:

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\
admincmd>netbackup_deployment_insights --report --capacity 
"C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\var\global\reports\
20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002"

NetBackup Deployment Insights, version 9.1
Analyzing license deployment ...
  Report created at:
C:\Program Files\Veritas\netbackup\var\global\reports\
20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002\
report-capacity-pnnbcsm5b38v002-20210319_021917.xls
Analysis DONE

Execution time: 0 sec

It is recommended to run the netbackup_deployment_insights, command. You can continue using the nbdeployutil command with the same options.

The tool generates a log file named nbdeployutil-report-timestamp.log during the analysis and the report generating operation. By default, the log file is created in the directory where the gathered data resides.

Creating a roll-up report for several master servers

This example assumes that you have gathered the respective master server's data in directories master1dir, master2dir, master3dir. These directories all reside within a parent directory named EMEA-domains. The output (report and log file) is saved to the EMEA-domains directory.

# netbackup_deployment_insights --report --parentdir=EMEA-domains

This variation creates a report for a smaller set of master servers and specifies a different directory for the output.

# mkdir UK-masters
# netbackup_deployment_insights --report EMEA-domains/
master1dir EMEA-domains/master2dir 
--output=UK-masters

Creating a report for a set of clients or for a business unit

The tool can be used to examine a specific set of clients in detail.

Example: Gather data for a subset of clients for a time frame different than the default.

netbackup_deployment_insights.exe --gather 
--output BusinessUnitFinance --start "11/01/10 
06:00:00" --end "11/02/10 01:00:00" --clients marybl2g1,marybl7g1 
--verbose

To create a report for these clients, run the following:

netbackup_deployment_insights.exe --report 
"BusinessUnitFinance\20101102_155246_marybl2g1"