I hope to have some good news in this aspect. After a big hustle
with Legato
for months. We finally got the Legato engineers to agree that this
issue
infact is serious. Finally a solution is in the works for this
issue and we
hope to have a solution in few days. I am not very positive at this
point
whether a hot fix will be provided or just updated binaries will be
provided.
Rajesh Vellanki
-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Peter Viertel
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 5:08 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.1.3 client DNS checks and multihomed
clients
duh!
yes I did of course mean to write 'save -c' instead of 'save -s'.
sorry
about that.
As for the whole hostname based authentication discussion, yes it
really
is time legato moved forward into the 1990's and did something
based on
either kerberos or perhaps a more interesting approach would be to
use a
CA to issue client certificates - of course the biggest problem with
this is that the client's private keys would be backed up on tape
along
with everything else.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Mooney [mailto:mooney AT dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak DOT edu]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2005 2:30 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Peter Viertel
Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.1.3 client DNS checks and multihomed
clients
In regard to: Re: [Networker] 7.1.3 client DNS checks and
multihomed...:
When I was moving clients to 7.1.2 I had a problem with the same
error
message and stumbled upon a solution in the networker knowledgebase,
which is probably quite an achievement in itself.
:-) You're correct, it is.
Normally in your client records you leave the 'Backup command:'
property
blank, however if your client record's main name is called
imap1.fred.edu then put in 'save -s imap1.fred.edu'.
This is very good information! If I could get it to work, it would
provide us with at least a temporary workaround for the problem, while
I talk with Legato about the issue.
I haven't been able to make it work for any of our clients, though, so
I must be doing something wrong. As an example, we have clients
created
within NetWorker named `netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu' and
`netreg-2.ndscs.nodak.edu'. The hostname command on those boxes
returns
`netreg.ndsu.NoDak.edu' and `netreg.ndscs.NoDak.edu' respectively.
If I add
save -s netreg.ndsu.NoDak.edu
in the "Backup command:" for the `netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu' client,
apply
it, and then probe the client, I still get:
* netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu:/ save: SYSTEM error: client `netreg' is not
properly configured on the NetWorker Server
* netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu:/ or `netreg' is not in the aliases list for
client `netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu'
Looking at the man page for `save' and with Robert Maiello's
subsequent
email, it looks to me like this should be
save -c client_name_as_configured_within_networker
e.g.
save -c netreg-2.ndsu.nodak.edu
Using that, I'm able to bypass this problem, but you're right: I'm
going
to need to do this for every client that I don't want to have the real
short name on the aliases list.
It's a bit of a pain because you have to train your whole team to do
this right all the time, but I dealt with this by writing a small
script
to check client resources each day to catch any new records which
were
not set up correctly, and it's done the trick.
It is indeed a pain, and your script is a good idea.
Thanks much for your email! It was very helpful!
Tim
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