I guess that is the way to go, unfortunately we are talking about over
300 clients. 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:02 AM
To: william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Global VSP setting

The best way to deal with this in my opinion is just go to Master
Server Settings -> Client Attributes and add each client that is a
Windows client and make sure VSP/VSS are disabled.

Justin.

On 3/17/06, william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com> 
wrote:
> Not that I can find, and I asked Symantec support.  We have a problem
> upgrading from 4.5 to 5.1 on Windows.  We had for 4.5 installed VSP
(set
> INSTALLVSP=1) in the silentclient.cmd file.   We then set the registry
key
> VSP_Use=NO - this is the same as clearing the check box in the client
> configuration in the GUI (at 4.5).  The theory was that if we found we
> needed VSP, it could just be toggled on.
>
> When we upgrade to 5.1, we find that the VSP code is left in situ,
whether
> we set INSTALLVSP to 0 or not.   The VSP_Use registry key is no longer
> used.   If there is no client database entry on the Master for the
client,
> the command it sends for backups has use_ofb set.   So VSP kicks in.
We
> filled a few disks that way.
>
> I tried renaming VSPAPI.DLL out of the way and sure enough the log
reports
> "VSP disabled", but it still tries to do some stuff about cleaning up
> entries using bpfis, which generate some error messages.  Looks as if
> something in a database bpfis maintains is not right.
>
> So the defintive fix seems to be to add client database entries for
all
> Windows clients, and set WOFB_Enable=0.  That can be scripted.   We
will
> also stop installing VSP!
>
> William D L Brown
>
>
>
>
> "Brandon Zermeno" <Brandon.Zermeno AT pulte DOT com>
> Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 16-Mar-2006 17:51
>
> To
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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>
> Subject
> [Veritas-bu] Global VSP setting
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Is there a way to globally disable using VSP? I only know of the
client
> attributes on the master server.  Is there a touch file? I am running
NBU
> 6mp1 on Windows.
>
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