{"id":9721,"date":"2020-10-06T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2020-10-06T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:45:29","slug":"networker-basics-getting-more-from-nsrcapinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/networker-basics-getting-more-from-nsrcapinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"NetWorker Basics \u2013 Getting More from nsrcapinfo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want a view of the front end TB (FETB) utilisation on your NetWorker server, you turn to the nsrcapinfo<\/strong> utility. By default, it looks at your backup history over the past 60 days and builds a model of FETB utilisation that’s output in XML format, such as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig A: Standard output from nsrcapinfo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Don’t forget, nsrcapinfo reports in gibibytes. (I.e., 1 GiB = 1.073741824 GB.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet that’s not the only reporting you can get from nsrcapinfo<\/strong>. In fact, it supports another 5 modes of reporting (with a roll-up ‘all’ mode). These modes are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • clients<\/li>
  • savesets<\/li>
  • summary<\/li>
  • other_apps<\/li>
  • app_types<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    You can invoke these alternate reports by invoking nsrcapinfo with the -r reportType<\/em> option. Let’s have a quick look at three of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Fig B: nsrcapinfo clients report<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    This version of the report gives you a comma separated list of all the clients in your datazone and the FETB calculated size for that client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But what if you wanted a deeper level breakdown for each client? Well, that’s where you can dive into the savesets<\/em> report. In this example, I’ve excluded my lab backup server from the output just because it has a lot of savesets I don’t want cluttering the output:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Fig C: nsrcapinfo savesets report<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Here you get to see a CSV output of each saveset name for each client, with the peak GiB for that saveset in the evaluated time. (By default, 60 days.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And finally for this article, here’s the summary<\/em> report option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Fig D: nsrcapinfo summary report<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    As the report type suggests, this is a useful mix of detail, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Number of clients<\/li>
    • Types of data, and estimated sizes<\/li>
    • Various peak sizes<\/li>
    • Socket counts<\/li>
    • Number of protected virtual machines and ESX servers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      So there you have it \u2013 nsrcapinfo puts some excellent capacity summary information at your fingertips, and not just for license review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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