Re: [Networker] Odd licensing issue

This makes perfect sense to me....
One std client license is needed to backup the client itself
(filesystem).
And One MS-SQL license is needed to backup the SQL databases. = 2
licenses used - one for each backup type. The MS-SQL license will not
function as a normal client license, it is used for the additional
functionality of being able to backup a live SQL database via the MS-SQL
module.

I wonder what the reverse DNS lookup of your pssql4 client returns ??

We quit using MS-SQL modules/licenses due to the additional cost and
simply have the DBAs dump their databases to flat-file backups that get
picked up via the filesystem backups... It's easier in our case since 1.
We don't have a lot of MS-SQL databases, and 2. They are not very large
and are easily recovered from a restored flat-file dump.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:03 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Odd licensing issue

I have an odd problem. I have a MS SQL cluster resource that seems to be

grabbing a regular client license, instead of a license for a SQL
Module, 
and I don't understand why. 


>nsrlic -vv | more
12116:nsrlic: License Summary:
66441:nsrlic:  Available: sv=90, virt=0, ndmp=0
64047:nsrlic:  Borrowed:  sv_borrowed=0
66442:nsrlic:  Remaining: sv=0, virt=0, ndmp=0
69792:nsrlic: Connected Clients:(90)

.... <SNIP> .... pssql4

12128:nsrlic: NetWorker Module for Microsoft SQL Server: Available=20, 
Remaining=5, Used=15
12128:nsrlic: NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications: Available=2, 
Remaining=2, Used=0

That last client listed - pssql4 - is a cluster resource, and should be 
using a SQL Module license, like these others:

 NetWorker Module for Microsoft SQL Server
             Available: 20
             Used: 15
             Remaining: 5
             Connected Clients: 
<SNIP>

 pssql1, pssql2,pssql3, pssql5;

(all the "pssql*" are MS SQL cluster resource, and all were installed 
exactly the same)

So, how do I determine why that one client is using a regular client 
license? and more to the point, how to I get it to properly use the SQL 
Module license, so that it frees up my regular client license?

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