Hi Andy,


Thanks for your reply.

Does this mean that there are no technical limits but only legal ones ? 
How are we then warned if the total numbers of clients has surpassed our 
license limit ? If I understand you correctly, even the software doesn't 
know it ?

My main reason to ask is to make sure that problems with licenses don't 
cause sudden backup problems.


regards,
Tom.






andrew.x.smith AT jpmchase DOT com
21/03/2006 14:02
 
        To:     tomvo AT absi DOT be
        cc:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
        Subject:        Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup for solaris: 
determining how many    clientlicenses there are ?



Hi Tom, 

  "surely there must be a way to do it via the command line", you would 
think so but sorry there isn't :( this goes for other things like server 
license keys too, the key has no actual number of licenses assigned to it 
in terms of the functionality it unlocks so the only place that will tell 
you is the paper license documentation that Veritas provide with the key 
(or you will have to get the information from your Veritas account rep), 

                        thanks Andy. 





tomvo AT absi DOT be 
Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
21/03/2006 12:50 
        
        To:        veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
        cc:         
        Subject:        [Veritas-bu] netbackup for solaris: determining 
how many client licenses there are ?



Hi,


We have a Netbackup server running on solaris backing up several windows 
and unix machines.
Our customer wants to know how many clients can backup to the server, but 
from the information I get from the 'bpminlicense -list_keys -verbose' 
output, it's very hard to determine this.

for example, one of the license keys lists this:

file version    = 0x07050000
 time added      = 0x40555141 Thu Apr  8 15:18:57 2004
 hostname        = sunbkup
 product ID      = 6 NetBackup DataCenter
 serial number   = 444570
 key version     = 0x00000001
 count           = 0
 server platform = 0 Any platform
 client platform = 2 Any Windows platform
 server tier     = 5 NetBackup Server
 client tier     = 0 No tier
 license type    = 1 Permanent
 Site ID         = 600 Unknown site: 600
 Feature ID      = 63 5.0 key bit +
 Feature ID      = 22 Additional clients +


What does this tell me with respect to how many client licenses I have ? I 

read somewhere that I need to check the license documents to see this, but 

surely there must be a way to do it via the command line ?


This is the contents of the version file:
NetBackup-Solaris2.6 4.5MP6

regards,
Tom.

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