On 10/9/2006 6:44 PM, JAJA (Jamie Jamison) wrote:
> I'm auditing my NetBackup environment to make sure that I have the
> number of licenses I need for clients and I'm finding the bpminlicense
> command somewhat unhelpful. 

There is absolutely no good way to audit your licenses with any existing 
tool.  You can have multiple virtual servers per physical servers (e.g. 
Windows cluster) that require 1 license per physical system, and you can 
have multiple operating systems on a VMware server that require one 
license per operating system type.

You need look at all of your pieces of paper or orders and count your 
clients manually and hope you get it right.

Symantec has been talking about their new license manager product for 
nearly a year around here and there's been no sign of it yet.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org