Capacity Report

As networks administrators, we are always requested to run reports for every reasons, such as executive requests and environment monitoring. One of the most useful reports of NBU is the capacity report because it shows the amount of data under protection of NBU.

How does it work?

When you run the capacity tool it examines the header of the images to calculate the amount of data under NBU. It then exports the data to a spreadsheet file where you can easily extract the information you are looking for. The way policies and schedules are set up can reflect in the amount of data retrieved by the tool hence affect the result shown on the report.

For detailed information regarding the tabs of the capacity report, please, refer to the link below:

About the capacity licensing report on Windows

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO68388#v49368067

Running the Capacity tool

To run the Capacity tool you must access the command prompt as administrator and type the command nbdeployutil --gather:

#nbdeployutil --gather
NetBackup Deployment Utility, version 7.1.0000.0000
Gathering license deployment information...
 Discovered master server marybl2g1
 Output for marybl2g1 at: D:\Program Files\VERITAS\netbackup\
 var\global\reports\20101029_170534_marybl2g1
Gather DONE
Execution time: 1 min
To create a report for this master server, run the following:
 nbdeployutil.exe --report "D:\Program Files\VERITAS\netbackup\
 var\global\reports\20101029_170534_marybl2g1"

If you want to export the data to a spreadsheet file, run:

#nbdeployutil.exe --report "<install_path>\VERITAS\netbackup\var\global\reports\<file_name>"

It is also possible to extract data from a remote Master server:

# nbdeployutil --gather --master=<master_server_name> (use the FQDN)

You can get a capacity report from a subset of clients:

# nbdeployutil --gather --client=client1,client2 

or 

# nbdeployutil --gather --clientlist=filename.txt

I hope you have enjoyed the post.