On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:45:08AM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been dealt with before, but I'm in a rush to
> get an answer and have not been able to get any clear answers or return
> calls from Legato, and we have support; otherwise, I'd talk to them
> about this and not waste anyone's time.

EMC licensing should be able to answer this for you, even without a
support contract.  I think it's fair to ask and be told what each
license does before you pay maintenance/support on it.  


> 1. Does the built-in support for 10 clients (server and 9 other clients)
> that you always get with NetWorker extend to all non-Linux flavors of
> Unix as long as you have the "ClientPak for Unix"? In other words, in
> our case, if we had no other "NetWorker client connections", would we
> still be able to back up 9 AIX boxes, or 9 SGI boxes, or any
> combination, etc. assuming the server was Solaris, or does the built-in
> support only allow for 9 Solaris clients (server makes 10)?
> 
> 2. If we we're only backing up Solaris clients, would the "ClientPak for
> Unix" be necessary?
> 
> 2. What would happen if we removed the "ClientPak for Unix"? We're still
> running 6.1.1, but not sure if later updates obviated the need for this
> product? We're getting ready to renew our maintenance and needed to know
> if this should definitely be included.

If you need a fast answer and want to test in-the-field what happens,
make a copy of your Server/Registration info (so that you have the
enabler and auth code for the ClientPak written down somewhere else) and
remove the ClientPak for UNIX.  I'd restart the server and do some test
backups and see what works and what doesn't.  

My guess, from what I've heard, is that your first point is right.  If
you are only backing up Solaris boxes and the server is Solaris, you
don't need an additional clientpak (but you wouldn't be able to backup
AIX or HPUX or SGI.)  The 'nsrlic -v' output will show you
SERVER/CLUSTER CLIENT TYPES as Networker sees them if you want to verify
you're all Solaris, Linux and Windows.

Legato support/maintenance is a lot of money.  Pester them to get you
the info you need to make decisions about it.

Dave

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