A client licnese is checked for and allocated to a client each time a
backup is attempted. You can get the license back by deleting the client
record... If you then recreate the client, no license will be allocated
so long as you're only restoring from it..
I have a process that goes like this:
1. use nsradmin to dump out all the client resources for a client that I
want to retire. Eg:
echo ". Type: NSR client; name: fred123;enabler in use: Yes\noption
hidden\nprint" | nsradmin -i - >clientsavefile
2. check the dump is good, then delete that client.
3. recreate that client:
nsradmin -i clientsavefile
It's a bit more complex than this sometimes, eg if the host is gone from
dns. or if you have multiple client records for the one client.. A lot
of the info you dump out is readonly fields, but the important thing is
to recreate the client with the same index, client-id, and retention
info...
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of tkimball
Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 8:38 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Making inactive clients not use licenses?
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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