How to easily determine which policies are active/inactive (for a large number of policies) when getting error status code 247

Problem

How to easily determine which policies are active/inactive (for a large number of policies) when getting error status code 247.

Error Message

Status Code: 247 - the specified policy is not active.

Solution

Normally, when checking if a single policy is active, this could be done via the NetBackup Administration Console under NetBackup Management > Policies to see which policy is grayed out (inactive), indicating that the Action > Deactivate option had been utilized. To make a single inactive policy active again, utilize the Action > Activate option.

However, if there are hundreds of policies involved, this can be very tedious process. A better approach to view the status of multiple policies is by using the bppllist command paired with operating system level filtering commands, to determine which are active, or not, as seen in the examples below.

Linux Examples:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist -allpolicies -L | grep 'Policy Name\|Active' > /tmp/allpolicies.txt

...OR...

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist -allpolicies -L | egrep "Policy Name|Active" > /tmp/allpolicies.txt

Windows Example:
install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bppllist -allpolicies -L | findstr /C:"Policy Name" /C:"Active" > C:\Temp\allpolicies.txt

The contents of the output file (allpolicies.txt) should look similar to this:

Policy Name:       Catalog
Active:            yes
Policy Name:       Oracle-prod
Active:            yes
Policy Name:       Standard-prod
Active:            yes
Policy Name:       Windows-prod
Active:            yes
Policy Name:       Test-dev
Active:            no
Policy Name:       VMware-online
Active:            yes
Policy Name:       Test-AIR-MSDP
Active:            no
Policy Name:       SLP_dup-to-tape
Active:            yes

Note: If the grep, egrep, or findstr command is not used, as applicable, then it will give a long listing of each policy, which will potentially create hundreds of pages of output, if there are large number of policies to list.