NetBackup IT Analytics Licensing Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.6)
  1. License installation and guidelines
    1. License overview
      1.  
        License Editions
      2.  
        License feature matrix
    2.  
      Understanding licensing restrictions
    3.  
      Get the NetBackup IT Analytics license key file
    4.  
      Install a license
    5. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run the License Summary report
      2.  
        Help About
      3.  
        View License Details
    6.  
      Consumption criteria of license suites
    7. Storage suite
      1. Capacity Manager
        1.  
          Storage Array Capacity license criteria
        2.  
          Vendor-specific capacity license criteria
        3.  
          EMC Symmetrix Arrays
        4.  
          EMC CLARiiON Arrays
        5.  
          HDS Arrays
        6.  
          NetApp Arrays
      2.  
        Fabric Manager
    8. Protection suite
      1. Backup Manager
        1.  
          Cohesity DataProtect
        2.  
          Commvault Simpana
        3.  
          Dell EMC NetWorker Backup & Recovery
        4.  
          EMC Avamar
        5.  
          Generic backups
        6.  
          HP Data Protector
        7.  
          IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
        8.  
          NAKIVO Backup & Replication
        9.  
          Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        10.  
          Rubrik Cloud Data Management
        11.  
          Veeam Backup & Replication
        12.  
          Veritas Backup Exec
        13.  
          Veritas NetBackup
      2.  
        Virtualization Manager
    9. Complete suite
      1.  
        File Analytics
    10.  
      Overview
    11. Managing licenses
      1.  
        Managing objects collected from centralized systems
      2.  
        Managing directly probed enterprise objects
      3.  
        What happens to historical data?
      4.  
        Processes to manage license counts
      5.  
        Identify counted and excluded objects
      6.  
        Stack multiple licenses
      7.  
        Add license with higher entitlement
      8.  
        Change the license edition
      9.  
        Portal behavior with stacked license suites
      10.  
        Delete Portal license
    12.  
      View the current license
    13.  
      Delete clients
    14.  
      Expand your license configuration
    15.  
      Exclude objects from future data collections
    16. Configure the Data Collector policy to exclude the object
      1.  
        Example of configuring a Data Collector policy to exclude arrays
      2.  
        Add objects to the Object Exclusion Database table
    17.  
      Removing objects from the license count
    18.  
      Deleting objects using the Inventory List view
  2. License management from command line
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Install a license on Microsoft Windows Portal platform
    3.  
      Install a license on Linux Portal platform
    4. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run report configuration utility
      2.  
        Run license verification utility
    5.  
      Removing a Portal license
  3. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      License install fails with 'License is already issued for another host' error

License Editions

The editions of each license type are defined below:

  • Standard: Allows licensing for NetBackup IT Analytics Portal only if Oracle Standard edition is used and only a single Instance of the Portal is used in the enterprise.

  • Shared Services: Allows licensing in Oracle shared services environment. You need to provide your own Oracle license (BYOO - Bring Your Own Oracle).

  • Partitioning: Allows the underlying database to split large tables into partitions, thus improving the database performance and scalability. NetBackup IT Analytics leverages the Oracle enterprise Edition Database with the Oracle Partitioning option.

The supported License edition based on the License type of each license suite is as follows:

Table: Supported editions for each license suite

License Suite

License Type

Supported Edition

Storage Suite

Perpetual

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Subscription

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Protection Suite

Perpetual

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Subscription

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Complete suite

Evaluation

Standard

Perpetual

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Subscription

Standard

Standard DR

Shared Services

Shared Services DR

Partitioning

Partitioning DR

Foundation

Subscription

Shared Services

Note:

A Disaster Recovery (DR) License is required if you deploy two or more copies of any product from the NetBackup IT Analytics suite of softwares on a second or subsequent Portal server for the purpose of disaster recovery, availability, or fail-over from production. A DR License is required for each individual product that you license.