NetBackup IT Analytics Licensing Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.5)
  1. License installation and guidelines
    1. License overview
      1.  
        License Editions
      2.  
        License feature matrix
    2.  
      Understanding licensing restrictions
    3.  
      Get the NetBackup IT Analytics 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 & Recovery
        4.  
          EMC Avamar
        5.  
          Generic backups
        6.  
          HP Data Protector
        7.  
          IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
        8.  
          NAKIVO Backup & Replication
        9.  
          Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        10.  
          Rubrik Cloud Data Management
        11.  
          Veeam Backup & Replication
        12.  
          Veritas Backup Exec
        13.  
          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
      10.  
        Delete Portal license
    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

Portal behavior with stacked license suites

Protection or Complete suite over Foundation license

When Protection or Complete suite license is installed on top of a valid Foundation license, the Foundation license is deleted. Additional policies/capabilities will become available for configuration. Data collection from policies configured with the Foundation license remain unchanged, as they become a subset of either the Protection or Complete suite of license.

Foundation over Protection suite license

When the Foundation license is installed on top of an existing valid Protection suite license, the Protection suite license is deleted. Data collection from policies that are not available in Foundation license continues but reporting is suppressed. You must delete or disable the policies that are not supported by the Foundation license before switching the license. Also, you must restart the Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent user services to make the license change effective.

Foundation over Complete suite license

When a Foundation license is installed on top of an existing valid Complete suite license, the Complete Suite license is deleted. Data collection from Protection type of policies that are not available in the Foundation license continue until the license coverage but reporting is suppressed. Data collection from Storage type of polices is stopped as RAWTB is exhausted. You must delete or disable the policies that are not supported in the Foundation license before switching the license type. You must also restart the Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent services to make the license type effective.

Start Tomcat portal and Tomcat agent

On Linux:

  • /opt/aptare/bin/tomcat-agent restart

  • /opt/aptare/bin/tomcat-portal restart

On Windows, restart the Tomcat agent and Tomcat portal from the Windows Services console.