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  3. Section IV. End user
  4. Discovery policies for Veritas NetBackup
  5. Activate a discovery license

Activate a discovery license

You need to activate your Discovery license so that you can access the additional discovery features beyond the Media Server Disk Discovery component.

A Discovery license is required for the following Discovery types:

  • Client Drive Discovery

  • Backup Policy Coverage

To activate the Discovery license

  1. Go to the utilities directory.

    Linux: /opt/aptare/utils

    Windows: C:\opt\aptare\utils

  2. Run the following license utilities to view the status of your current license or to install your updated license.

    Linux:

    ./printLicense.sh

    ./installLicense.sh

    Windows:

    printlicense.bat

    installlicense.bat

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