number of client connections to networker server exceeded

This is 125 clients defined on server (not instances!). You can run nsrlic -v to get more info.

RaJos,

Are you telling me you do not have nsrlic on backup server ? Try find / -name nsrlic -print

As to what it means, Anuj have said that. In some versions you get license count in daemon.log after server has been started as well.

This means you have the licenses to backup 125 unique clients i.e. hosts.

You can check this by making a count of your client connection licenses. If the base enabler is workgroup/network edition, you have 10 clients+you would have Networker Client Connection/5 type licenses. The /5 would mean 5 clients which now totals to 15. Similarly, you would have /25, /50 & /100 type licenses so you total them and find how many you have in total.

I cannot find nsrlic command in /opt/networker/bin
When I go into nwadmin GUI, under client setup, If I count uniq names,
I get a count of over 250. Licenses are only for 125. I do not understand
what this 125 means? can anyone explain.

Thank you all for your replies.

Ra Jos

ops, I forgot, nsrlic is in /opt/networker/sbin.

You need count the hostnames you can have 10 clients with the same hostname but this 10 client will allocate only 1 license.

Thank you Anuj, Anderson, Hrvjoe.

Per Anuj, I checked licenses from nsradmin CLI. It shows 125 which is good.
Also, the nwadmin GUI shows 125 licenses, which is also good.

Our networker (backup) server is a windows server for which I have no knowledge.

There are Unix/Linux/Windows clients that backup to this windows backup server.

I do have admin rights, so I was trying to find out from a Unix client that has only
networker client libraries installed. That is why I can't find nsrlic which is probably
in server binaries.

I have networker PC client also.

What I am looking for is, what this 125 means. For the above discussion, I believe
that this means total number of clients configured for backup. If this is so,
when I go to client setup in nwadmin GUI, I see over 250 unique clients. Note that
multiple clients can have same host name. So I took all of this client list,
found out hostname and uniqued them. I get a count of over 250. That is why
I was puzzled what this 125 means. This problem arose as one of our unix client is
not backing up. Daily I am getting messages that max number of licenses =125 exceeded.

Any thought on how to validate this 125 with tools that I have from networker client library (unix host).

Thank you all.

Ra Jos

You can do that with nsrlic if you have correct permissions set on server (which you probably don't) - my advice is to connect to server and run nsrlic -v.

As to what it is this has been already said, but more graphically:
# uname -a
clientA

# uname -a
clientB

In NW I have:
clientA - saveset All
clientA - saveset RMAN
clientB - saveset All
clientB - saveset EXCH

So, I have 4 instances and 2 clients defined. That would take 2 licenses. Licenses are used for clients defined - no matter if they are in group or not. (so if you had dumped all client definitions with nsradmin and did run sort -u against the list you would get number of clients required to be licensed). I hope this helps. If not you may wish to engage your support.