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14 years ago

New Solaris 10 Client for NetBackup 6.5.6

I've installed NetBackup 6.5 (from OEM disk) onto new Solaris 10 client and patched to 6.5.6. However, bp.start_all produces zero (0) processes and the master server cannot connect to the client. Suggestions of where I should look next? Thanks

  • bp.start_all isn't used by clients, just servers.  You shouldn't see any processes on a 6.x UNIX client unless a backup is in process.

    A better check is to see if your client is listening on the expected ports. Try `netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 137` and see if vnetd (13720) and bpcd (13782) are included in the output.

    # netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 137
          *.13785              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13720              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13701              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13721              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13782              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13723              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
          *.13724              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN

    Assuming you find listening ports, next step is to try to connect to them  You can try a telnet from the master, a bptestbpcd test, or run some bpclntcmd commands.

  • Please verify that NBU entries were added in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf. Check if installation process restarted inetd:

    inetadm | egrep 'bpcd|vnetd'

    Output should be similar to this:

    enabled   online         svc:/network/bpcd/tcp:default
    enabled   online         svc:/network/vnetd/tcp:default

     

    Is the Solaris 10 client SPARC or x86?

    Please post output of 'uname -a'
    as well as 'cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version'