Identifying 32-bit binaries on x64 clients

[JohnPen]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a definitive way to identify a Windows 64-bit server, running 32-bit Netbackup client binaries?

We're looking at a mix of 5.1 and 6.0 Clients.

Using the installation path is not reliable (it can be changed) and sadly, we haven't got a spare machine or VM that we can provision to test with.

We're performing automated upgrades to Netbackup 7 (using the silent install script), and we need to maintain the Client binary bit-levels.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers

John

[juliette_coates · Accepted solution]

Look at the bpinetd process in Task Manager - if it has a *32 next to it, then it's a 32 bit process running on a 64 bit client.

[JohnPen]

Thankyou!

:)

[Ed_Wilts]

You can use bpgetconfig to determine the path.  

 [root@osiris ~]# bpgetconfig -s stp2pbe01.domain.com -A -L | grep Installation

 NetBackup Installation Path = E:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin

 Once you get to NBU 6.5.4 or higher on the clients, you can also add -t to the bpgetconfig to your query and get the ARCHITECTURE - this will tell if you're 32-bit or 64-bit and is VERY useful for determining if you can push out 7.x clients to a Linux system since only 64-bit is supported.