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H_Sharma's avatar
H_Sharma
Level 6
10 years ago

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Hello Experts, I was changing global attributes in Master server properties. I came across  "Some Settings may not take effect until daemons or services are restarted nor will they take effe...
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  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    10 years ago

    1:- What are this services that gets restarted?

    No services are automatically restarted.

    2:- Is such change recommended while backup jobs are running?

    Yes changing attributes is fine when jobs are running. Those jobs will be unaffected

    3:- How much time would they take to reflect the changes?

    Depends on what you change!

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    10 years ago

    Read the message again:

    "Some Settings may not take effect until daemons or services are restarted nor will they
    take effect on the currently active jobs or utilities"

    It does not say that NBU will restart services.
    You need to do this.

    For Global attributes that are changed, best to wait until there are no avtive jobs and restart NBU cleanly from cmd with bpdown and bpup.

    I have over the years learned a great command that sometimes work when certain parameters are changed (I cannot give a list)  -   bprdreq -rereadconfig

    just try it - you may be lucky and changes will take effect without restart. 
    If not, restart NBU.

    This command is discussed in this O-L-D forum post :
    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/bprdreq-rereadconfig 
    (No guarantee that those URLs will still work, but Bob Stump has quoted enough from them to 'get the picture'.)

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
10 years ago

Read the message again:

"Some Settings may not take effect until daemons or services are restarted nor will they
take effect on the currently active jobs or utilities"

It does not say that NBU will restart services.
You need to do this.

For Global attributes that are changed, best to wait until there are no avtive jobs and restart NBU cleanly from cmd with bpdown and bpup.

I have over the years learned a great command that sometimes work when certain parameters are changed (I cannot give a list)  -   bprdreq -rereadconfig

just try it - you may be lucky and changes will take effect without restart. 
If not, restart NBU.

This command is discussed in this O-L-D forum post :
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/bprdreq-rereadconfig 
(No guarantee that those URLs will still work, but Bob Stump has quoted enough from them to 'get the picture'.)