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purpose of nbhostdbcmd?

igarape
Level 3

For maintenance reasons NetBackup had to be stopped on one of our master servers (RHEL 6.10, NetBackup 8.2). After the netbackup stop command we saw the following process running for a couple minutes:

NB Processes
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root 9383 1 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbhostdbcmd -update -force -daemon

Could anyone explain what this process is doing? Would it be safe to kill the process manually (we waited till it stopped by itself...)?. I cannot find any documentation about it anywhere.

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EthanH
Level 4

nbhostdbcmd is a process that is used as part of Veritas's telemetry collection, most likely Smart Meter. I do not think terminating the process would cause any issues, as it is not a vital process. 

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EthanH
Level 4

nbhostdbcmd is a process that is used as part of Veritas's telemetry collection, most likely Smart Meter. I do not think terminating the process would cause any issues, as it is not a vital process. 

Hello Ethan

Thanks for your reply. I marked it as solution. In the meantime I came across the following knowledge base entry which supports your answer:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100047688

Thanks again.