Creating and viewing the licensing report
After gathering data for the licensing report, use the --report - - traditional or the - - capacity option to generate the licensing report. You can create a report for any of the following:
A single primary server.
Several primary servers.
A specific subset of clients. For example, a report that contains capacity usage for business unit billing.
The - -gather --capacity command is run for primary server pnnbcsm5b38v002:
Install_Path\NetBackup\bin\ admincmd>netbackup_deployment_insights --gather --capacity NetBackup Deployment Insights, version 9.1 Gathering license deployment information... Discovered master server pnnbcsm5b38v002 Enter credentials for Master Server(s): Master Server:pnnbcsm5b38v002 Domain Type (NIS, NISPLUS, WINDOWS, vx, unixpwd, ldap):WINDOWS Domain Name :pnnbcsm5b38v002 User Name :administrator Password : Data gather is in progress. This process might take some time. Output for pnnbcsm5b38v002 at: Install_Path\netbackup\var\global\reports\ 20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002 Gather DONE Execution time: 36 secs To create a report for this master server, run the following: netbackup_deployment_insights.exe --report --capacity "Install_Path\netbackup\var\global\reports\ 20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002"
To create a capacity report based on the data gathered, the tool tells you what command you need to run:
Install_Path\NetBackup\bin\ admincmd>netbackup_deployment_insights --report --capacity "Install_Path\netbackup\var\global\reports\ 20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002" NetBackup Deployment Insights, version 9.1 Analyzing license deployment ... Report created at: Install_Path\netbackup\var\global\reports\ 20210319_021553_pnnbcsm5b38v002\ report-capacity-pnnbcsm5b38v002-20210319_021917.xlsx Analysis DONE Execution time: 0 sec
It is recommended to run the netbackup_deployment_insights, command. You can continue using the nbdeployutil command with the same options.
The tool generates a log file named nbdeployutil-report-timestamp.log during the analysis and the report generating operation. By default, the log file is created in the directory where the gathered data resides.
This example assumes that you have gathered the respective primary server's data in directories primary1dir, primary2dir, primary3dir. These directories all reside within a parent directory named EMEA-domains. The output (report and log file) is saved to the EMEA-domains directory.
# netbackup_deployment_insights --report --parentdir=EMEA-domains
This variation creates a report for a smaller set of primary servers and specifies a different directory for the output.
# mkdir UK-primaries # netbackup_deployment_insights --report EMEA-domains/ primary1dir EMEA-domains/primary2dir --output=UK-primaries