Once you delete all definitions of a given client (you can have more
than 1), it will delete the client, and will free up a license.
We do this all of the time. If a client is no longer backed up, we
simply remove them from backups, we don't delete them. When we need
licenses, we go out and cleanup old clients by deleting them. That
immediately frees up a license.
This is for Windows. I assume that linux/unix would work the same way.
David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:50 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Licensing question
I thought I knew this, but I guess I need to double check.
I have 115 licenses, but 128 clients defined.
nsrlic:
STANDARD CLIENT LICENSES
Available: 115
Used: 115
>From bootstrap backup:
NetWorker savegroup: (notice) Bootstrap completed, Total 128 client(s),
128 Succeeded.
Now, those other 13 clients are just not in any scheduled backup jobs,
just the Bootstrap group, because I don't have enough client licenses
for
them. (hopefully I will be able to buy more licenses next month, when
the
new budget goes into effect. I just wanted to define the clients now, so
I
know how many more licenses I need to buy)
I have 2 or 3 clients that are on currently scheduled backup jobs, that
I
don't need to back up anymore. So I was going to keep note of their
client
ID (in case I ever need to recreate those clients in future), and then
delete those 3 clients from NMC. I was then going to change 3 of those
other 13 clients to include them in a scheduled backup job. Am I right
in
assuming that as soon as I delete those 3 current client definitions
that
I don't need, 3 licenses free up, to be assigned to whichever next 3
clients who ask for them? i.e., I only need to run a test job with the 3
clients I want to have licenses, and NW will assign the 3 freed up
licenses to this set of clients?
I ask, because I seem to remember trying to do things this way, and it
not
working the way I thought it would ..
Am I correct in my assumptions?
--
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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