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A_M_Ash_
Level 6

Hi,

we have the company Renewal licenses in NB7.0.1 ,in sheet from symantec we have 1- table of the licenses renews every year and second table are the licenses my company owns and should be added to the renewal list this year

2- also we have the licenses certificate of the last year’s renewal done for my company, all i want the commands to find out all license we used .

 

Symantic Product Name: Symantec Netbackup

Product Version: 7.0.1

Operating System: HP-UX 11iv3

and we have many media servers and over 130 client also we have symantec on windows beside the unix one.

 

i have used the command /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/./admincmd/get_license_key  but it gives me license related to features only not for all symantec license and agents and .. etc

 

how can i get accurate data regarding Symantec licenses that we have to be compared with the attached sheet from symantec ?

 

 

 

 

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V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

As seen you are on 7.0.1

Regarding itemized detail on WHAT ACTUALLY ARE YOU USING VS LICENSES YOU ARE ENTITLED. use nbdeployutil.

Download 7.5 utility which is more improved and gives better picture. (however not 100% accurate but still you'll save alot of MIS work time)

Download Utility from : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH148678

Path:

On UNIX and Linux systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/

On Windows systems, the directory path to this command is <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\

 

Syntax:

nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional

This would generate xls report under \netbackup\var\global\reports

 

Useful LInks

NBDEPLOYUTIL Command Switchs : http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO72905

About using nbdeployutil for capacity licensing on UNIX/Linux :

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO67321

 

Hope this helps :)

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mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

Does this provide what you want ?

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpminlicense

 

Regards,
 
Martin

revarooo
Level 6
Employee

As Martin mentioned, /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpminlicense

If you want more information onf features licensed:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpminlicense -verbose

 

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

NetBackup does not count number of licenses used. So, if you have added 1 license key for Standard Client, NBU will allow you to backup any number of clients.

Comparing number used vs amount on license certificate is a manual process.

You can check number of clients in Host Properties - Clients.
If Media servers and/or master are also backed up, don't include them when you add up client names.
Also check for duplicates - if client is backed up with client-name and client-name.fqdn, count only one.
If you have policies for cluster nodes (e.g node1, node2, virt-name), count only 2, not 3.
From cmd: bpplclients -allunique

Find Media servers in Host Properties -> media servers.
from cmd: nbemmcmd -listhosts

If you need to know amount of clients backed up with Database Agent, you first of all need a list of agents used in policies.

bpplclients -allunique -pt <policy_type>

Some valid values for policy_type:
Informix-On-BAR
Lotus-Notes
MS-Exchange-Server
MS-SharePoint
MS-SQL-Server
NDMP
Oracle
Sybase
DB2

For databases and media server you need knowledge of each system as well - OS, processor count (in order to validate tier level).

 

Please let us know if you need more info.

 

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

Hi revaroo i have already tryed Martin command  on master server and the o/p is as follow:

>  bpminlicense
OEXP-XXXX-XXXX. ;

..,but this is not what i want i donnot want license for feature .. i want all license installed inall  my environment and next post i will copy some licenses that send from symantec to validate it with the recent license updates

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

As seen you are on 7.0.1

Regarding itemized detail on WHAT ACTUALLY ARE YOU USING VS LICENSES YOU ARE ENTITLED. use nbdeployutil.

Download 7.5 utility which is more improved and gives better picture. (however not 100% accurate but still you'll save alot of MIS work time)

Download Utility from : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH148678

Path:

On UNIX and Linux systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/

On Windows systems, the directory path to this command is <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\

 

Syntax:

nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional

This would generate xls report under \netbackup\var\global\reports

 

Useful LInks

NBDEPLOYUTIL Command Switchs : http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO72905

About using nbdeployutil for capacity licensing on UNIX/Linux :

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO67321

 

Hope this helps :)

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

hi,

this is the sample of license from symantec that i want to check and validate it  :

and i want to know how to check all of it

 

 

1st  licenses  renews every year

SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 1 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 4 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 1 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION LIBRARY BASED TAPE DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT PER DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION LIBRARY BASED TAPE DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT PER DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION VAULT ADDITIONAL DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED STORAGE OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED STORAGE OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION VAULT BASE 7.5 XPLAT RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

 

VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION ENTERPRISE HA 6.0 UNX PER SERVER TIER F RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION ENTERPRISE FOR ORACLE RAC 6.0 UNX 10 SPVU RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE DISK 7.5 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TB RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION VAULT ADDITIONAL DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION NDMP 7.5 XPLAT PER SERVER TIER 4 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED STORAGE OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 4 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

 

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2nd are the licenses we owns and should be added to the renewal list this year

 

 

SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD CLIENT 7.5 XPLAT 1 SERVER RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE CLIENT 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE DISK 7.5 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TB RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION LIBRARY BASED TAPE DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT PER DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED STORAGE OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 1 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP DATA PROTECTION OPTIMIZATION OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TB RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

 

SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE DISK 7.5 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TB RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION LIBRARY BASED TAPE DRIVE 7.5 XPLAT PER DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED STORAGE OPTION 7.5 XPLAT 1 DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION ENTERPRISE CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM 5.1 UNX PER CPU TIER 1 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION STANDARD 5.1 S64LNX PER CPU TIER 1 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE DISK 7.5 XPLAT 1 FRONT END TB RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E
SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE SERVER 7.5 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

 

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3rd the licenses certificate of the last year’s renewal done for us

 

1-

SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED

STORAGE OPTION 7.1 XPLAT 1

DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12

MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

2-

SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION SHARED

STORAGE OPTION 7.1 XPLAT 1

DRIVE RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12

MONTHS REWARDS BAND E

3-

SYMC NETBACKUP OPTION VAULT

ADDITIONAL DRIVE 7.1 XPLAT

RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS

REWARDS BAND E

4-

SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT

APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK

7.1 UNX 1 SERVER TIER 1 RENEWAL

ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS

BAND E

5-

SYMC NETBACKUP CLIENT

APPLICATION AND DATABASE PACK

7.1 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1 SERVER TIER

2 RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS

REWARDS BAND E

6-

SYMC NETBACKUP STANDARD

CLIENT 7.1 XPLAT 1 SERVER

RENEWAL ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS

REWARDS BAND E

7-

SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE

CLIENT 7.1 WIN/LNX/SOLX64 1

SERVER TIER 2 RENEWAL

ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS

BAND E

8-

SYMC NETBACKUP SERVER 7.1 UNX

1 SERVER TIER 1 RENEWAL

ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS

BAND E

9-

VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION

ENTERPRISE FOR ORACLE RAC 5.0

HPUX 11I V2 CPU TIER 1 RENEWAL

ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS REWARDS

BAND E

and more ....

 

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any help is appreciated  thnx

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

License sheet you got would brief you Qty vs Feature you are entitled. Repot which i'm asking you will give you same output.. It will identify you NetBackup domain , and will categariz them under this features... So you can check if you are under license or are running out it ... (NetBackup Licenses are perpatual,)

Go ahead and execute those reports and check it against your License sheet.

As seen there is SF stack included in renewal.. For thsi i believe you should use veritas Operation Manager . This is amazing tool for SF/VCS, also gives granularity in license management...

rizwan84tx
Level 6
Certified

You are risking yourself by posting licenses in the forum; please never do that. Also when you post logs, make sure that server names are not exposed. The above act is considered to be security breach / violation.

In my ex-company; One of the backup admin was sacked from project, for posting logs in the forum that exposed the projects's client and it's backup server. Poor thing, that his colleague reported about him to the management.

So you may not know, who is watching your back. Please be extra cautious.

 

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

hi,

is there is any other way instead of this utility?

 

how can i confirm that this utility is running or installed before

Download Utility from : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH148678

thnx

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

Firstly this utility is different then other NBU processes which runs in background. This does requires manual intervention to execute.

Second, Do a search at given path if it exist you can use that, However would recommend to use latest one which is more improved comparatively to previous one

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

my netbackup version is 7.0.1 

i want to confirm the command

nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional

1-is it true as it was written ?

2- where is the path to run it ?

3-and how  to view the output - give me in details steps -  as my master server is unix

HP-UX 11iv3?

 

 

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

On UNIX and Linux systems, the directory path to this command is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/

On Windows systems, the directory path to this command is <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\

 

Syntax:

nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional

This would generate xls report under \netbackup\var\global\reports

 

use SCP to take that xls on your desktop and check the output

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

hi,

when i write the command nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional

it gives me the error:

:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd>  nbdeployutil.exe --report --traditional
ksh: nbdeployutil.exe:  not found

 

 

...and the xls report under \netbackup\var\global\reports in windows or unix as it is in unix  / not \
 

mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

That is not exactly an error ...

From the path, you are on a unix/ linux server - you have entered a windows command - unix doesn't have .exe files.

Instead of posting up here and waining for a solution, you could just look in the directory and see if you can find the command ...

In this post, under part (A) I have exopkained about 'commands'.

Martin

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

sorry being a windows guy i gave you windows path

Here is what syntax look like

:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdeployutil --report --traditional

 

Reports will be generated:

UNIX and Linux: /usr/openv/var/global/reports/

 

 

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

hi,

 

thnx for reply  ...  this command only if tool is  already installed  ,is not it?

A_M_Ash_
Level 6

hi,

how to do that  "
For databases and media server you need knowledge of each system as well - OS, processor count (in order to validate tier level).??

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

You find that out by checking each client (various tools on various OS'es to get the info) or by asking system owners for info.

V4
Level 6
Partner Accredited

sorry but i didn't get your reply .

Download Latest utility from link i gave

replace downloaded utility with existing one. and Execute the syntax

Reason for replacement of existing utility is for improvements and fixes in existing utility. (This does not mean existing won't work, but may not / may be give you near to accurate result).. Have seen report deos categorize tiering so it would reduce your bitter of work. ;)