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tarmizi's avatar
tarmizi
Level 5
7 years ago

Netbackup licensing

Hi all, This is not a really a technical question but more on how to setup an alert email from OpsCenter. Is there any way to create an alert email to users/admin of netbackup for their netbackup li...
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    andrew_mcc1
    7 years ago

    I don't believe there is a way to do this automatically currently as NetBackup license keys do not in many cases include the actual license quantity. Also I'm not sure if OpsCenter actually collects NetBackup license information; it can run nbdeployutil but as far as I know it doesn't ingest the resulting XLS data.

    NB: Veritas have said they intend to change NetBackup license methodology to allow much more accurate reporting including usage vs. entitlement - I heard this is planned for NBU 8.2

    Andrew

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andrew_mcc1
Level 6

I don't believe there is a way to do this automatically currently as NetBackup license keys do not in many cases include the actual license quantity. Also I'm not sure if OpsCenter actually collects NetBackup license information; it can run nbdeployutil but as far as I know it doesn't ingest the resulting XLS data.

NB: Veritas have said they intend to change NetBackup license methodology to allow much more accurate reporting including usage vs. entitlement - I heard this is planned for NBU 8.2

Andrew

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Joe_ab
Level 4
6 years ago

Hello andrew, so the amount to be licenced should be the below under the report ouputs ?  as there are several amounts buit i belived we should pay for the confrimed TB then ?

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