NetBackup 8.1.2 Usage Reporting using Smart Meter and nbdeployutil

NetBackup Licensing Models:

Capacity Licensing

Traditional Licensing

NetBackup 8.1.2 automatically collects and includes Usage reporting information in the NetBackup web UI. The usage report displays trends and details on the NetBackup data that is protected including data size, master server, and policy type. This information is used with the Smart Meter tool to compare backup size data with your capacity licensing.

The nbdeployutil utility is a command-line tool that can gather backup size data and create a licensing report. The command generates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to review. In NetBackup 8.1.2, the nbdeployutil utility automatically gathers backup size data.

You can then use this utility to:

■ Run capacity licensing reports on an incremental schedule.

■ Manually generate reports for traditional or for capacity licensing.

■ Create custom capacity license reports. For example, for a set of clients or for

a business unit.

nbdeployutil --gather command gathers the information and creates a file in /usr/openv/var/global/reports location.

Then create a report using the following command. You can create a report for capacity and traditional.

This command analyse the data and create a report xls file in the same location.

Following or the sample report files: