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Feature request: License Usage Report

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Case reference #07739648

Hi all,

I'd like to insert a new feature request to create a new kind of report, the License Usage Report.

This kind of report is already present in the VBR console, but it's not possible to schedule/send it via e-mail.

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Hello Matteo,

Thank you for the interesting request. I'll explore whether there's a way to automate the scheduling and email-sending processes.

Thanks
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Hi RomanK,

OK, many thanks :-)
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hello Matteo,

At this time, there doesn’t appear to be a straightforward way to accomplish this task in Veeam ONE.
The feature request has been noted for consideration in future releases.

Thanks for the feedback.
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Hi Matteo,

Have you considered using Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC)?

With VSPC, you can onboard your internal Veeam environment—or each customer individually—as a managed company. Once connected, you can install and manage licenses across all your VBR servers, and VSPC automatically generates a monthly license usage report.

I've set it up myself and found it incredibly useful. It saves a significant amount of time on both reporting and license management. Plus, it integrates with Veeam Pulse, allowing you to assign licenses per customer, and assist with renewals too.

Even if you use it solely for license management, VSPC is a powerful tool worth exploring!
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hi Stephen,

Yes, but with this Customer is not a possible solution, since we don't manage their licenses and we have a totally different contract for the others that we manage thru VSPC.

Thanks anyway for your suggestion :-)
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Hello,
Maybe you've already identified this solution, but it's also possible to create a PowerShell script to export the license usage and then send it to you by email.
Or am I wrong ?
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Hi vincel,

No, at least for now, since the Customer I'm talking about just bought Veeam ONE and it would be happy to manage this kind of reports using this product, so it would be nice if it will bring this feature in one of their next release.
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Hello Matteo,
I couldn't let pass this opportunity to automate this action, using current Veeam PS and some Microsoft Graph magic to get the email nicely, instructions here: Hope we can get this delivered as a feature sometime as Roman mentioned.

Thank you!
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Hi Jorge,

Thank you so much for sharing it! Really appreciated :-)
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Post by CarlosEsteves » 1 person likes this post

I´d like to complement the request.

We must have a report in Veeam One that we can send by email taking information about licenses from 1, 2 or All VBR connected to Veeam One.
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Hello Carlos,
I agree, this is indeed a great use-case that we expect we can add in future releases after upcoming v13.

Thank you so much!
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hi all,

Is there any plan to add this kind of report in the v13?

As far as I see in the initial release, there is no license report of any type yet.

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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hello Matteo,
We shared that after v13 we could start exploring it, and that is what we are currently doing. I cannot share any ETA, but rest-assured we are evaluating it.

I was thinking, as we didn't previously mention it, that this functionality might help if you are using Enterprise Manager.

Let me know your findings.

Thank you!
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Hi Jorge,

Thanks, but that feature is only available using rental licenses type :-(
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Got it Matteo,
We will investigate and surely try to bring it into future releases. Did you have any luck with the GitHub script? As you can point or run it in different VBRs, might be a good workaround.

Thank you!
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Since it requires the creation of a dedicated Enterprise Application on Azure I've to discuss it with the customer, in order to get its approval.

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Hello Matteo,
Well, that is in order to send an email easily, yes. I am positive you can change that to any other legacy SMTP Server, or change that part to Google Mail, etc. :)

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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hi Jorge,

I revisited the script and it worked.

I hope Veeam ONE v13.x will bring soon this new license report, since it was the first report my customer asked me for, upon the upgrade of his Veeam Data Platform license and my answer to that was "no, there is no license report available until now"... so it was not such a great success case :-)

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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hello Matteo,
Understood, will surely keep you updated here as soon as we have some movement.
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hello Matteo,
Now that Veeam ONE 13 is out, and you can remove sections, columns, etc. Are we sure Backup Inventory Report doesn't fit?
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I just run it, and it tells me the same details as for Example Enterprise Manager:
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With the exception of the details, which has been added to backlog. But in order to quickly see, how many workloads each VBR is consuming, this report is just perfect. Also, it can be filtered by VBR, saved as individual reports, for VBR1, VBR2, etc. And comfortable be sent as CSV/PDF to each Customer/tenant/business unit.

Please let us know.
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hi Jorge,

I'll test it in my lab, but regarding this specific Customer this way is not suitable for now, because I've tested in my lab Veeam ONE v13 strictly requires (altough is not specified in the relative documentation) at least one virtual infrastructure is added to the inventory, but since in this case there is a licensing reason that prevents it, I can't do that, so I can't use the v13 here for the moment.

You can see what I mean in the following screenshot (all functions of the Veeam ONE v13 are restricted until I add a new virtual infra):
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The image link does not appear to work in this message, so I post it below:
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Re: Feature request: License Usage Report

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Hello Matteo,
This is unexpected, we of course require some data source, but that can be anything, meaning Veeam Backup & Replication.

The message disappears after the data collection finishes (so there is data to show), but I can confirm you do not need any Virtual Infrastructure, just Backup & Replication servers, or Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

Please make sure that data collection has finished after adding your VBR, and click refresh. If this keep occurring, I would encourage to create a support ticket Matteo, please share the support case with us.

Thank you!
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