Administrative Management capability cannot be used to release the
license from the MediaAgent level.
Before you Begin:
To release license for MediaAgent, ensure that all the storage policies or copies
associated with the configured libraries (or drive pools) in the MediaAgent are
deleted or re-associated to another MediaAgent.
To
release license for
client, MediaAgent, agent, or enabler:
In the CommCell Browser, right-click the name of the client, MediaAgent,
agent, or enabler you want to release license, click All Tasks (if
displayed), and select Release License.
A popup warning message appears.
Click OK to continue.
Another popup message then appears.
Click Yes to continue with the deconfiguration or No to abort.
If releasing a license is unsuccessful, a number of popup messages
appears. In some cases, the message requests that you take some
corrective action. For example, the message might advise you to ensure that there are no jobs running on the
agent. In such a case, click OK and take the appropriate action.
Then repeat the process.
If releasing a license is successful, the tree element is dimmed and available for deletion.
You can perform agent operations as long as the agent is installed and
appears enabled in the CommCell Browser. However, if you have no need to
run jobs on the agent data of a client computer, you may want
to delete the agent that resides on that computer. Once you have uninstalled or
released the license for agent, the corresponding icon in the CommCell Browser is grayed out. While
this icon exists, you can recover data from the agent to another client. If you
delete this icon, all of the agent's data is irretrievably lost.
NOTES
You cannot delete an agent while operations for that agent are
running.
Deleting the agent is a two-phase process.
You need to uninstall or release the license for agent software
from the client computer. Doing so frees an agent license, thereby allowing
you to install it on some other computer whose data you do want to secure.
After you uninstall the client software, you can either leave the agent
in CommCell Browser to use the corresponding data intact for appropriate
action, or you can delete the agent from the CommCell Browser.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the icon of the agent that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
(The agent software must first have been uninstalled/Released the License or the delete option on the shortcut menu
will not appear.)
A warning message prompts you with the following:
This operation will permanently delete the data backed up from this level
and it cannot be restored. Click Ok to continue with the
deletion operation. (Clicking No will abort the operation.)
From the Confirmation Text dialog box, enter the confirmation
text string, erase and reuse media. Click
Ok. The agent icon and the data that corresponds to the selected agent
will be deleted. Consequently, you will not be able to browse or recover
this data.
From the CommCell Browser, click the CommServe, Client,
Agent, MediaAgent, or Enabler for which you wish to view the version, and then click
Properties.
To
release license for
client, MediaAgent, agent, or enabler: