Creating and viewing the licensing report
After gather 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 master server.
Several master 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 master server cayce.rm.com:
C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbdeployutil.exe --gather --capacity NetBackup Deployment Utility, version 8.1.x Gathering license deployment information... Discovered master server cayce.rm.com Master Server: cayce.rm.com Domain Type (NIS, NISPLUS, WINDOWS, vx, unixpwd, ldap):WINDOWS Domain Name: rm.com User Name:Administrator Password: Output for master server at: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\global\reports\ 20160527_140620_cayce.rm.com Gather DONE
To create a capacity report based on the data gathered, the utility tells you what command you need to run:
To create a report for this master server, run the following:
nbdeployutil.exe --report --capacity
"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\global\reports\
20160527_140620_cayce.rm.com"
C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbdeployutil.exe
--report --capacity
"C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\global\report\
20160527_140620_cayce.rm.com"
NetBackup Deployment Utility, version 8.1.x
Analyzing license deployment ...
Following directories were given, but do not exist:
C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\var\global\report\
20160527_140620_
cayce.rm.com
The utility 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 master server's data in directories master1dir, master2dir, master3dir. These directories all reside within a parent directory named EMEA-domains. The output (report and log file) is saved to the EMEA-domains directory.
# nbdeployutil --report --parentdir=EMEA-domains
This variation creates a report for a smaller set of master servers and specifies a different directory for the output.
# mkdir UK-masters # nbdeployutil --report EMEA-domains/master1dir EMEA-domains/master2dir --output=UK-masters
The utility can be used to examine a specific set of clients in detail.
Example: Gather data for a subset of clients for a time frame different than the default.
nbdeployutil.exe --gather --output BusinessUnitFinance --start "11/01/10 06:00:00" --end "11/02/10 01:00:00" --clients marybl2g1,marybl7g1 --verbose
To create a report for these clients, run the following:
nbdeployutil.exe --report "BusinessUnitFinance\20101102_155246_marybl2g1"