Make sure the client record for the storage node has all the hostnames
you want to use for it listed in its aliases list.


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2007 4:16 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Sharing a storage node on two subnets

Two or three months ago, we put a second physical network drop from a
secure subnet to our NetWorker 7.2.1 server running Solaris 9 and we put
an old storage node (also  Solaris 9) on the same subnet. The storage
node's old IP address was changed to reflect its placement on the new
subnet,  but the hostname is the same.

This allows me to back up confidential data on without it crossing our
firewall and this works pretty well.

We recently created a pair of tagged VLAN connections; one on our
NetWorker server and the other on the storage node. The VLAN connections
present the storage node and NetWorker server as if it appears on yet
another secure subnet. This is intended to allow us to back up sensitive
data to the same storage node, but it is not working.

I can back up a client on this second subnet to my NetWorker server
fine, but when I try to back it up to the storage node, it mounts a tape
(if necessary) and the tape status shows "ready for writing, idle" and
it will occasionally switch to "ready for writing, done"  
for a minute or two before going back to the idle status. No data gets
written to the tape.

On the storage node, I have a single entry for the NetWorker server with
all the hosts names the server goes by associated with one IP address.
>From the storage node, I can load, unload, and query the media database
via "nsrjb -s whatever" fine.

On the server's storage node list, I put the fully qualified hostname
for the storage node that has the base IP address associated with it.  
If I replace that with the hostname for the storage node's VLAN, NSR
refuses to mount a tape and the log shows warnings about not being able
to mount a tape.

What am I doing wrong?

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