(CEP-18146) NetBackup VxUpdate
Interaction Date: October 10 - 25, 2022 Interaction Type: Online Survey The Veritas NetBackup Product Management team is conducting this survey to know more about your experience using the NetBackup VxUpdate utility. VxUpdate is a NetBackup tool to simplify media server and client upgrades and installation of EEBs. It provides both a policy-based option for automated upgrades and an on-demand option. If you are interested in participating in this or other exciting interactions, and are not currently a member of our CPEP program, you can register here:https://cpep.veritas.comthencontact us atcustomer.engagement@veritas.com.
VxUpdate installation timeout
This is not a question but something that I have come across that I wanted to share. While performing client upgrades from my Solaris 8.1.2 master I would see the following in the Detailed Status window: Sep5,20199:56:25AM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=7562)Serviceshutdownsuccessful. Sep5,201910:56:46AM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=7562)Executionofthenbinstallagentontheremotehostfailed Sep5,201910:56:46AM-InfoRUNCMD(pid=7562)exitingwithstatus:7207 As you can see this would run for 1 hour (3600 seconds) and then abort / timeout. It turns out that there is an undocumented variable that can be added to the bp.conf file on the master server that can be modified to adjust the time out. The variable is calledVXUPDATE_CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT_SECONDS and the default value is 3600. I needed to modify the value to be 10 hours (36000 seconds) so I added the line VXUPDATE_CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 36000 to bp.conf (no need to restart any processes) and now my upgrades complete successfully. This was particular important on AIX servers as they have to traverse the whole process tree and search each process for specific NetBackup paths to verify that nothing is using them before performing the upgrade. Note: you will need to restart the NetBackup processes on the client server after getting the 7207 error as the timeout prevents the script from restarting them. I hope this helps anyone who might be having the same issue. Regards.
VxUpdate Command nbrepo.exe -a Failed
Hello, When I run the nbrepo -a command to add the package, I get the following message: install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\>nbrepo.exe -a C:\Util\vxupdate_nbclient_8.1.2_redhat_x64.sja Adding package to the repository. This may take a few minutes... Error: Package repository location does not exist. Can you help me?
VxUpdate how to prevent JAVA installation
we have updated our Test server to 8.1.2 (Linux) and i try to do some tests. As described in the Installation Docu we don't install the JAVA part if we install a client. (We have renamed the file) How is this working with the VXupdate? I think it will not use the standard client software location (/usr/openv/netbackup/client or? is there a possibility to NOT install JAVA on a client with VXupdate?
