I did the same wit h the V6.5.4 client and it simply logged the following:
16:29:55 [00000E58] --------------------------------------------------------------
16:29:55 [00000E58] %NBU-I-VERSION, Veritas NetBackup OpenVMS Client V6.5.4
16:29:55 [00000E58] %NBU-I-LOGTRAN, "SYS$LOCALTIME" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$ZONEINFO.SYSTEM.AUSTRALIA]SYDNEY."
16:29:55 [00000E58] %NBU-I-TZGMTOF, timezone EST offset from GMT 36000 secs
16:29:55 [00000E58] %NBU-I-LOGTRAN, "NBU$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL" (not defined)
I then dropped our of NBU and back in again and did a NBU SHOW VERS which logged the following:
16:30:24 [00000E58] --------------------------------------------------------------
16:30:24 [00000E58] %NBU-I-VERSION, Veritas NetBackup OpenVMS Client V6.5.4
16:30:24 [00000E58] %NBU-I-LOGTRAN, "SYS$LOCALTIME" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$ZONEINFO.SYSTEM.AUSTRALIA]SYDNEY."
16:30:24 [00000E58] %NBU-I-TZGMTOF, timezone EST offset from GMT 36000 secs
16:30:24 [00000E58] %NBU-I-LOGTRAN, "NBU$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL" (not defined)
16:30:27 [00000E58] %NBU-I-NBUCMDL, show vers
16:30:27 [00000E58] %NBU-I-VERSION, Veritas NetBackup OpenVMS Client V6.5.4
16:30:29 [00000E58] %NBU-I-NBUCMDL, show client
16:30:29 [00000E58] %NBU-S-BINPORT, bind port 1023 success (0.0.0.0)
16:30:29 [00000E58] %NBU-S-BINPORT, bind port 1022 success (0.0.0.0)
16:30:29 [00000E58] %NBU-I-CONNECT, connect to xxxx (aa.bb.cc.dd,13782)
and returned:
%NBU-I-VERSION, Veritas NetBackup OpenVMS Client V6.5.4
I use native TCP/IP of course.
I don't believe there's any need to for the GA version although there might be something happening here with Multinet?