07-06-2012 09:55 AM
What is the best practive for hosts which are no longer on the network?
we have a master server with 24 hosts however only 5 of those are still alive the other 19 have been retired. We want to keep the hostnames incase we have to do a restore of the data from one of those nodes. however when viewed by ops center they are counted as a license even though through retirement the license has been reclaimed.
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07-06-2012 11:33 AM
I agree with Nicolai.
Clients are counted when the hostnames still exist in policies - active or inactive.
You can delete those clients from the policies (or delete the policies if you have one policy per client).
The image database is used for restores. Deleting policies will in no way affect valid, unexpired images.
07-06-2012 10:20 AM
Not to worry !!
Ops center will show u your current environment
but as per the restore concerin you can restore that old data on master as per the retention time was in policy
i will recommend you do not delete old policy just deactive if those host removed
i hope this helps :)
07-06-2012 10:30 AM
You do not need the client in a policy to check what backup are available. You can always query the Netbackup Image catalog using the GUI or use the bpimagelist command to see what there.
07-06-2012 10:30 AM
Thanks yogesh
In OpsCenter there is a field "is offline" how is this field populated? We currently move old hosts to a disabled "retired_client" policy as is. Is there a best practice way of telling netbackup and opscenter that a client is now offline and not to count that host as a license? if we have 100 license pool, and 15 get retired it would be beneficial to see the license count drop to 85 rather than still read 100.
07-06-2012 11:33 AM
I agree with Nicolai.
Clients are counted when the hostnames still exist in policies - active or inactive.
You can delete those clients from the policies (or delete the policies if you have one policy per client).
The image database is used for restores. Deleting policies will in no way affect valid, unexpired images.