We ask this question at most of the Technical Advisory Board meetings held around the world and find that not many customers are using this resource.  Anyone who has installed NetWorker has seen the install option, so from that standpoint, I believe most are aware of it.  (For those that aren't - below is a quick blurb about what it is).  It has been pitched for larger environments especially as a way to consolidate enabler management and to better keep track of what is being used.

Are you using it?  If so, what has been your experience?

-Eric

NetWorker License Manager

Instead of having to physically go to each NetWorker server to input enablers and authorizations, the NetWorker License Manager (NLM) provides a central server location to manage all NetWorker licenses.  NLM accepts all valid NetWorker licenses and authorization codes. The NetWorker License Manager (NLM) does not enforce license policies; license enforcement is performed at the NetWorker server, which determines whether a license of a specific type is required for the product or a specific feature in the datazaone.  When configured to leverage the NLM resource, the NetWorker server will request the appropriate licenses from the NLM as needed.

Good to hear your having some success with it. I do know a few other very large customers using it successfully though with some little idiosyncratic issues.

Thanks for the heads up on yours. I'll talk to some engineering folks about these temperamental items and see what we can do to recreate any issues and enhance NLM going forward.

Cheers,

Steve

We have been using License Manager for about 7 years. It is a great way to centrally manage the licenses for our 54 NetWorker servers. Although it is an application that is vary tempermental. We are experiancing an issue now where a couple of licenses are not being reported properly in NLM. We can add clients, SQL servers, Oracle RMAN clients, and VTL storage and NLM does not count them. Basiclly with the current version we can have unlimited client connection and database servers. There has been times in the past when it has worked the other way around. That NLM will have the license but not give it to the NetWorker server. With the 100s of licenses we have I could not imagin doing any other way.

I have a case opened with support, 28760852. We have been working on it since April. At this point it is failing in my favor so I am not pushing it.

I have received an answer from support on our current license manager issue. The bug fix LGTsc19056 is included in version 7.4.5.x of NetWorker.

We will need to upgrade to 7.5.1 to resolve this issue.

Thanks you for keeping this post up to date!

Have a great day.

I can only echo the above. We use it extensively and it most certainly does have it's quirks !

These have varied over the years though I'm unsure if it's within the lmd or the client side code.

Currently our servers don't automatically pull DDS licences though nsrlmc has no problem in

manually grabbing one.

Jason.

Hi

where to find the networker product types and license...also, any info on volumetric based licensing?

TIA

Hello,

nsrlic -vv should show this.  NetWorker does have a capacity licensing model.  It includes unlimited quantities of the following options and modules:

• NetWorker Server and Storage Node for all supported operating systems

• NetWorker Fast Start

• NetWorker Clients, Virtual Clients, NDMP clients and Deduplication Clients

• All NetWorker Application Modules, including the Microsoft Applications, Databases and Applications, SAP for Oracle, SQL and Meditech

Capacity is measured as the largest aggregate amount of full (or synthetic full meaning the combination of full plus incremental) backups performed for all protected data sources over the last 60 days.  Contact your local EMC partner or rep for additional details.

Allan