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Sisso
Level 5
10 years ago

NetBackup Appliance Call Home Feature

Hello, We are running Netbackup Master Server with version 7.6.0.3 on Windows Server 2008 sp1 r2 and our Netbackup media servers are Ntebackup Appliances 5230.   Recently, I read about t...
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  • chashock's avatar
    chashock
    10 years ago

    No, there is no "CallHome Proxy" functionality at this time.  You must configure each appliance to connect through your http proxy for outbound connection directly to the CallHome servers at Symantec.

    Also, I would NEVER configure a backup server to function as anything but a backup server, especially not as a proxy to the outside world.

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chashock
Level 6
10 years ago

Nothing goes through the IPMI connection except IPMI traffic.

It doesn't matter what network connection you use (aside from IPMI), as long as it can reach the Proxy over IP to authenticate and get to the outside world.  You don't assign a NIC to CallHome, you simply configure it for a Proxy, and if none of the network connections can reach that proxy, set one up which can.