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

Add objects to the Object Exclusion Database table

To exclude objects (such as clients, ESX hosts, and arrays) from data collection, the object must be inserted into the apt_exclude_object table. If the object is already in the database, the object also will need to be deleted from the database in order to exclude it from the license count.

See Removing objects from the license count.

See Deleting objects using the Inventory List view.

  1. Open a terminal to the Portal server (Linux) or a command prompt on the Portal server (Windows)

    For Linux, su - aptare

  2. Execute: sqlplus <ID>/<password>

  3. Use the following SQL statement to view the exclude object table:

    SQL> desc apt_exclude_object;
    Name Null?	Type
    --------------------------------------------
    DOMAIN_IDNOT NULLNUMBER(6)
    OBJECT_NAMENOT NULLVARCHAR2(64)
    CREATION_DATENOT NULLDATE
    APTARE_PRODUCT_TYPENOT NULLNUMBER(2)
    OBJECT_TYPE VARCHAR2(30)
    CREATION_DATE NOT NULL DATE
    LAST_EXCLUDED_DATE DATE

    Note:

    For APTARE_PRODUCT_TYPE you will substitute one of the following numeric values in the command line execution of the procedure, listed later in these steps.

    • Backup Manager = 1

    • Capacity Manager = 2 (used for Array objects)

    • Virtualization Manager = 4

    • Replication Manager = 8

    • Fabric Manager = 16

    • File Analytics = 32

  4. Execute: select domain_name, domain_id from apt_domain;

    This is to capture the domain ID, needed for subsequent script executions.

    Typically, the domain ID will be 100000, however, in a multi-tenancy, Managed Services environment, the domain ID will be specific to the client's domain.

    SQL> select domain_name, domain_id from apt_domain;
    DOMAIN_NAME DOMAIN_ID
    ------------------------
    CORP07 100000
  5. Execute the following, substituting your specific values:

    SQL> insert into apt_exclude_object (domain_id, object_name, aptare_product_type, object_type, creation_date) values (100000, 'Array 123',2,'Array', sysdate);

    Note:

    The valid object types are: Backup Host, Virtual Host, Array, San, Data Domain Host, and File Analytics Host.

    This step adds (inserts) this object into the object exclusion database table.For object_name substitution, use the name, such as the host or array name.

  6. Repeat step 5 for all objects that need to be excluded from data collection.

  7. After completing all the inserts, execute: commit;

  8. If the clients are already in the database, you will need to delete them from the database so they will not be counted against your license.

    See Removing objects from the license count.