Networker

[Networker] Making inactive clients not use licenses?

2008-11-26 04:42:29
Subject: [Networker] Making inactive clients not use licenses?
From: tkimball <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:37:38 -0500
We have a number of clients that had their backup cut over 'cold' to new 
systems, which is tying up an annoying number of client license slots.  The 
'old' clients have no groups defined, and will never have another backup 
running off them (the software was uninstalled, or in some cases the old server 
no longer exists).

Is there any (safe!) way to get these old clients to *stop* using client 
licenses?  I have no issue with it using a license again if (for some wild 
reason) the backup restarts on any of them.  We need to keep the old backups 
for an 'unknown period of time' due to various reasons.

NW 7.1.3 server and storage node (Sun's version), SPARC.

--Tim Kimball

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