NetBackup IT Analytics Licensing Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.0)
  1. License installation and guidelines
    1. License overview
      1.  
        License Editions
      2.  
        License feature matrix
    2.  
      Understanding licensing restrictions
    3.  
      Get the license key file
    4.  
      Install a license
    5. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run the License Summary report
      2.  
        Help About
      3.  
        View License Details
    6.  
      Consumption criteria of license suites
    7. Storage suite
      1. Capacity Manager
        1.  
          Storage Array Capacity license criteria
        2.  
          Vendor-specific capacity license criteria
        3.  
          EMC Symmetrix Arrays
        4.  
          EMC CLARiiON Arrays
        5.  
          HDS Arrays
        6.  
          NetApp Arrays
      2.  
        Fabric Manager
    8. Protection suite
      1. Backup Manager
        1.  
          Cohesity DataProtect
        2.  
          Commvault Simpana
        3.  
          Dell EMC NetWorker Backup & Replication
        4.  
          EMC Avamar
        5.  
          EMC NetWorker
        6.  
          Generic backups
        7.  
          HP Data Protector
        8.  
          IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
        9.  
          NAKIVO Backup & Replication
        10.  
          Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        11.  
          Rubrik Cloud Data Management
        12.  
          Veeam Backup & Replication
        13.  
          Veritas Backup Exec
        14.  
          Veritas NetBackup
      2.  
        Virtualization Manager
    9. Complete suite
      1.  
        File Analytics
    10.  
      Overview
    11. Managing licenses
      1.  
        Managing objects collected from centralized systems
      2.  
        Managing directly probed enterprise objects
      3.  
        What happens to historical data?
      4.  
        Processes to manage license counts
      5.  
        Identify counted and excluded objects
      6.  
        Stack multiple licenses
      7.  
        Add license with higher entitlement
      8.  
        Change the license edition
      9.  
        Portal behavior with stacked license suites
    12.  
      View the current license
    13.  
      Delete clients
    14.  
      Expand your license configuration
    15.  
      Exclude objects from future data collections
    16. Configure the Data Collector policy to exclude the object
      1.  
        Example of configuring a Data Collector policy to exclude arrays
      2.  
        Add objects to the Object Exclusion Database table
    17.  
      Removing objects from the license count
    18.  
      Deleting objects using the Inventory List view
  2. License management from command line
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Install a license on Microsoft Windows Portal platform
    3.  
      Install a license on Linux Portal platform
    4. Verify the current license configuration
      1.  
        Run report configuration utility
      2.  
        Run license verification utility
    5.  
      Removing a Portal license
  3. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      License install fails with 'License is already issued for another host' error

What happens to historical data?

Backup Manager operates differently from other products. Refer to the following section to determine the conditions under which backup clients are counted against your license. Typically, a client must be part of a backup policy or it must have been backed up recently, usually in the last 7 days.

See Consumption criteria of license suites.

Since Backup Manager involves transaction-based data rather than just object metadata, when an object is excluded from data collection, these time-sensitive transactions are retained for historical reporting.

All Other Licensed Modules, such as Capacity Manager and Virtualization Manager, do not keep historical data when objects are permanently deleted from the reporting database.

See Removing objects from the license count.

See What happens to historical data?.