Generating a Capacity Licensing report

Article:HOWTO43400  |  Created: 2011-03-06  |  Updated: 2011-03-06  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO43400
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Generating a Capacity Licensing report

The Capacity Licensing report is generated in the form of an Excel sheet. This report can be emailed or exported in the XLS format to the required email address or location.

To generate a Capacity Licensing report

  1. To generate the Capacity Licensing report it is mandatory to enable License Deployment data collection and to configure an agent. The Settings tab helps you to enable them. Select Settings > Configuration > NetBackup.

  2. Select the required master server and click Edit. The Edit Master Server page is displayed.

  3. Select the Configure agent link to configure an agent. Select the Enable License Deployment Data Collection check box as shown in the following figure.

  4. Edit master server page
  5. In the OpsCenter console, click Manage > Deployment Analysis. The Capacity Licensing page is displayed as shown in the following figure.

    Capacity licensing page
  6. The Capacity Licensing page contains details about the previously created report, log file, and data collection. You can view the previously generated report with the available link under the Last Successful Report Date header. A log file is generated when the Capacity License report is generated. You can view the log file with the View Log link.

    See About the Capacity Licensing page.

    link to the existing report
  7. Click New Report to generate a new report. The Create Capacity Licensing Report page is displayed.

  8. Select the Collect data and run report on all Master Servers option to generate a report for all the master servers.

    Select the Collect data and run report on specific Master Servers option to generate a report for only the required master servers. Select the required master servers from the list, the following image displays both the options.

    Options to generate the report
  9. Click Next. The Report Options page is displayed.

  10. Enter the recipients email address in the To and CC fields. The Subject field displays the default text Capacity Licensing Report, you can change the subject line if required.

  11. Enter a message in the Message field.

  12. To export the report to the required location, select the Export report (XLS format) check box. You can change the export location path from the Settings > Configuration > Report Export Location tab.

    See Setting report export location in OpsCenter.

  13. Select Run Report to initiate the data collection. A message to show that report generation has started is flashed.

    message that shows report generation progress

    When report generation is complete, you can open the .xls file or save the file for later viewing.

    Note:

    Re-running the report when report generation is in progress is not possible as it displays errors in thne report. It is advisable to wait till the report is generated.

See Data compilation for the Capacity License report.

See About the Capacity Licensing page.

See Capacity License report

See Possible Capacity License report issues

See About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis


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