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Neil1234
Level 2
14 years ago
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Number of avaiable licenses - EV 8.0.3

I would like to know how to find out how many user licenses are available to be used.

Under reporting I can see the number of licenses that we are currently using "Total number of Active Archives", but don't know how many we are able to use before we need to buy additional licenses.

Is there an eventid I should be looking for, or is there a powershell command that will give me an answer?

Many thanks in advance.

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  • MichelZ's avatar
    MichelZ
    14 years ago

    This is kind a wrong guys.
    You can have 1000 archives, but only needing one single license.

    In Enterprise Vault, it is based on "active users", and only on "human users".
    System Mailbox archives do not count, Group Mailbox archives do not count.

    It is not that easy to get a real number.

    A good start is to count all your employees who happen to have an archive.

    As to find out on how many licenses you have purchased, you should be able to find a License Certificate from Symantec where it is noted down.

    Enterprise Vault does NOT track licensing usage, and does not enforce any licensing counts.

    Cheers

  • WiTSend's avatar
    WiTSend
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    You'll need to check with your purchasing/sales rep to see how many licenses you purchased.  EV operates on an honor system and does not track how many licenses are being "used".

  • LCT's avatar
    LCT
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    SYMC does an audit based on the SQL below (change the appropriate details to match your environment):

    use EnterpriseVaultDirectory

    select vaultname, vaultentryid

    from vaultentryview

    where VaultEntryID IN ( Select distinct(ArchivePointID)

    from EVExchange_VaultStore01.dbo.saveset s, EVExchange_VaultStore01.dbo.archivepoint a

    where s.archiveddate Between '2008-01-01' and '2011-10-17' and

    s.ArchivePointIdentity = a.ArchivePointIdentity )

    Hope that helps.

  • MichelZ's avatar
    MichelZ
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    This is kind a wrong guys.
    You can have 1000 archives, but only needing one single license.

    In Enterprise Vault, it is based on "active users", and only on "human users".
    System Mailbox archives do not count, Group Mailbox archives do not count.

    It is not that easy to get a real number.

    A good start is to count all your employees who happen to have an archive.

    As to find out on how many licenses you have purchased, you should be able to find a License Certificate from Symantec where it is noted down.

    Enterprise Vault does NOT track licensing usage, and does not enforce any licensing counts.

    Cheers