Scheduling reports for traditional licensing
By default, NetBackup triggers nbdeployutil to run on a specified schedule to incrementally gather data and to generate licensing reports. For the first run, the duration of the report uses the frequency that is specified in the configuration file.
For traditional licensing the report duration is always for the last 90 days.
Note:
Multi-master support is not applicable for traditional licensing.
The current traditional licensing report resides in the following directory:
On Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global\incremental\traditional
On UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global/incremental/traditional
It contains the following files:
The generated report for the latest nbdeployutil result.
Folders containing incrementally gathered data.
The archive folder that contains the older generated reports.
nbdeployutil log files.
The nbdeployutilconfig.txt file is not required when you use the default parameters. nbdeployutil uses the following default values for traditional licensing:
FREQUENCY_IN_DAYS=30
PARENTDIR=folder_name
For Windows: Iinstall_path\NetBackup\var\global\incremental\traditional
For UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global/incremental/traditional
PURGE_INTERVAL=120 (number of days).
MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVAL = 90 (number of days)
If the file nbdeployutilconfig.txt is not present, create a file using the following format:
[NBDEPLOYUTIL_INCREMENTAL_TRADITIONAL] FREQUENCY_IN_DAYS=30
Traditional licensing uses the PARENTDIR and PURGE_INTERVAL parameters of the [NBDEPLOYUTIL_INCREMENTAL] tag.
[NBDEPLOYUTIL_INCREMENTAL] PARENTDIR=<folder_name_with_path> PURGE_INTERVAL=120 MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVAL=90
To use custom values for the licensing report
- Copy the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file to the following location:
For Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global
For UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global
- Open the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file.
- Edit the
FREQUENCY_IN_DAYSvalue to reflect how often you want the report to be created.Default (recommended)
Minimum
1
Value of 0
Disables the incremental reporting and no licensing information is captured.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
PARENTDIRvalue to include the full path for location where the data is gathered and reported.No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
PURGE_INTERVALto indicate the interval (in days) for how often you want to delete the report data. Data that is older than 120 days is automatically purged.Default
120
Minimum
90
No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVALto indicate how often to scan physical clients for updates to the machine type.Default
90
Minimum
1
No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.