Networker

Re: [Networker] Issues with clients - RPC error: Unable to send

2006-05-09 02:42:42
Subject: Re: [Networker] Issues with clients - RPC error: Unable to send
From: Peter Viertel <Peter.Viertel AT MACQUARIE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:40:26 +1000
Because some of your savesets succeed and just this one doesn't I would
say that rules out all the possibilities of incorrect dns, servers
files, hosts files and authorization issues...   This sounds to me like
a timeout of the control connection - a tcp session opened from the
client to the nsrd server that sits idle for most of the saveset, and
therefore can get timed out by a firewall (eg you need a big enough
saveset to see the problem, often the timeout is 1 hour) - typically the
answer is to set tcp_keepalive_interval on the client to something less
than the timeout setting on the firewall in between (ok ok that's for
unix.... On windows there's some arcane environment variable you need to
set in the startup environment for the nsr listener service that causes
a keepalive packet to be sent regularly...

If you're absolutely sure theres no firewall, and no firewall software
on the server or the client  then the only other thing I've seen similar
is when there's a block at the server end for long enough... Eg no
writable tapes, or adv_file device has filled...

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Jim Ruskowsky
Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2006 2:55 AM
To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
Subject: [Networker] Issues with clients - RPC error: Unable to send

We have a new networker installation and are getting this error message
on numerous clients

Server
        NW7.2.1 running on Solaris 10
Clients
        Windows 2003, Windows 2000

On a particular drive we get 
        [server name]:D:\ 1 retry attempted
        [server name]:D:\ save: RPC error: Unable to send
        [server name]:D:\ aborted due to inactivity


Any clues?





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