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raj08
Level 4
12 years ago

Find Netbackup Client Version

Hi All, I have two questions. 1. We have around 400 NBU clients connected to our master serer. We need to find the version of all the clients. Is there any command to find out the client version?...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    12 years ago

    I have tried to explain in my previous post - only HP-UX client software is installed on the master as part of Server installation.

    If you want to push updates for anything other that HP-UX (e.g. AIX, Linux, Solaris, etc) you need to install Client software on the master for all required Client OS versions.
    Master server can only push the Client software that is installed on the master.

    See Installing client type software on a master server in NBU Installation Guide for UNIX and Linux

     

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Marianne
Level 6
12 years ago

You are correct - update_clients will only update Unix/Linux clients. It will check version file on client before trying to update. Clients that are no longer supported in 7.x (e.g. 32-bit Linux) will fail.
There is no need to uninstall old NBU client.

The assumption here is that you have a Unix/Linux master? You never told us...
You will have to install Client software on the master for all Unix/Linux versions on your clients.
If you have a Solaris master, only Solaris client software is installed by default on the master.