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NIKHIL234656595's avatar
NIKHIL234656595
Level 6
11 years ago

bpclntcmd

HI ALL,   I have 3 NIC on my client. one for prod ,one for backup and one for storage. when I run ipconfig/all,i have below nic and ip   lon100      10.1.200.36 lon100-bck  10.1....
7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Solaris
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    11 years ago

    NBU on master server contains Client name in policy. The IP address that master and media server knows about will be used to connect to client.

    Client will connect back on the interface/IP that is used for this hostname. 
    In this case - it will probably round-robin.

    If there is a database on the client which means that the client will initiate comms to the master server, the 'Configured Client Name' will be used as source. 
    If this is the -bck name with 2 IP addresses, TCP/IP will choose any IP. This is outside of NBU control.

    You may want to read up in Admin Guide II chapter 4 about this topic: 
    Host name rules

     

Steve_Lussiaud's avatar
Steve_Lussiaud
Level 4
11 years ago

Hello,

in general, if your client has 2 ip address ( Prod and Admin for example) i think, generally admin ip must be used. It permit to avoid overload you prod interface ( if you have a web server, database or others).

Regarding your first ticket and like say all people bellow, hostname must be unique and the same on all hosts ( client and server). Using DNS made it easy.

So If your client has the following configuration :

lon100      10.1.200.36

lon100-bck  10.1.200.37

lon100-stu       10.1.200.40

 

On client you have to set a route to use the good interface :

route add -p 10.1.200.37  mask 255.255.255.255 IF X

your backup serveur must answer with his name :

ping ion100-bck ( if not correct your local host file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

=> 10.1.200.37

 

Your Master server

ping ion100-bck => 10.1.200.37.

If not correct your host file

 

The following actions can help you to solve resolution problem :

bpclntcmd -clear_host_cache => clear the cache of Netbackup

Restart Netbackup services ? ;)