My humble opinion, FWIW...
This lack of functionality you've experienced will only be the first of many if
you move off of HP and onto AIX. I have nothing against AIX as an OS, but I do
know that it's always been last in the development matrix at Veritas/Symantec.
Solaris & Windows first, then HP shortly after (often at the same time), then
AIX (a distance third that often doesn't catch up). Now if you want to replace
NBU with TSM, then AIX would be a great server! (Not that I'm recommending
that, mind you.) ;)
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:42 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU & Java GUI authentication on AIX
We are looking at re-designing our Master/Media OS environment and have
considered AIX (currently HP-UX). We have also struggled with VxSS as
have several of you - so we have continued to rely on the non-root admin
capabilities. Our initial exposure to AIX gave us issues with the Java
GUI.
This comes from a tech note:
"At this time NetBackup does not support LDAP with AIX. As NetBackup is
compiled to work with AIX 5 (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), it has to be built against
the most common version. The AIX 5.1 (which NetBackup is complied
against) and AIX 5.2 did not (by default) contain the LDAP / PAM
authentication libraries, and this is why the NetBackup Java GUI will
not work with LDAP on AIX platforms.
If a customer is not satisfied with this feature of NetBackup and
requires NetBackup to work with LDAP and AIX, please raise an
enhancement request by visiting "
We are not allowed to give root access to the NBU admins, however SESU
is OK. We have approximately 80+ DB admins, Operations personnel, and
tape librarians that I rely on the Java GUI to control their access
using non-root admin and the auth.conf file in /opt/openv/java.
Can anyone suggest viable options that would pass the security and audit
departments. Is VxSS capable of this and is this my only option?
TIA
Brian
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