Hi Dave,

Not at all. 
A new trick for an old dog ;-)
Interesting.

Thanks for sharing the solution.

jee




On Tuesday 21 June 2011 00:35:41 Werth, Dave wrote:
> Problem solved.
>
> It was kind of silly.  Apparently when I was messing around with our NIC's
> last Friday I disabled all of them at one point and in "retaliation"
> NetWorker created a client called "localhost" whose alias was apollo, our
> NetWorker Server.  Once I deleted the "localhost" client I'm now getting
> successful index backups.
>
> Sorry to have wasted everyone's time.
>
> Dave Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc.
> Salem, Oregon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werth, Dave
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 4:17 PM
> To: 'EMC NetWorker discussion'; Werth, Dave
> Subject: RE: [Networker] Error: `localhost is not a valid index name for
> the client `
>
> Re-install didn't help either.
>
> Dave Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc.
> Salem, Oregon
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of Werth, Dave Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:45 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Error: `localhost is not a valid index name for
> the client `
>
> HCT reports everything passes.  I guess I'll try a reinstall.
>
> Dave Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc.
> Salem, Oregon
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of bingo Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:42 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Error: `localhost is not a valid index name for the
> client `
>
> Most likely you will not even be able to run a local backup on your server.
> But you can try it from the command line with added verbosity. Hopefully
> you will receive more detailed info.
>
> If this is a rather fresh scenario, i would suggest a reinstall.
> Otherwise you can try the new NetWorker Health Check Tool (HCT), which is
> available on request from EMC support. It helped me recently in a bunch of
> similar issues.
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