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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
  4. Scheduling reports for traditional licensing
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

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.

Licensing report location

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.

Use Case I: Using the default values for the licensing report

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).

Use Case II: Using custom values for the licensing report

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

To use custom values for the licensing report

  1. Copy the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file to the following location:

    For Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global

    For UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global

  2. Open the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file.
  3. Edit the FREQUENCY_IN_DAYS value 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.

  4. Edit the PARENTDIR value 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.

  5. Edit the PURGE_INTERVAL to 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.

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