Hopefully some AIX expert out there can give me an idea of what to check 
next on a rather stubborn problem I'm having with NBU DC 3.4 on an AIX 
4.3.3 system.

We are trying to set up an AIX 4.3.3 system as a media server sharing a DLT 
library which is controlled by a Win2K master running NBU DC 3.4.  The 
systems all connect over a 100BT switched ethernet backbone.

This is a new system with a fresh load of AIX 4.3.3 with the latest IBM 
patches on it.  The problem is that we can't even get the client daemon, 
bpcd, to load.  It loads, generates a "getsockopt:" error about opening or 
writing to a socket and then bpcd unloads.  Trying to get the media server 
daemon bprd to run generates the same type of "getsockopt:" opening socket 
error followed by an error # 37, "operation requested by an invalid server".

We have checked name resolution, client definition on the master, which is 
the Win2K system, network connectivity, authentication, network settings, 
NIC settings, DNS settings, contents of bp.conf, vm.conf, the entries on 
the Servers tab in the masters NBU configuration section, etc. and 
everything appears to be correct.  But none of the Netbackup daemons, 
except vmd, will load.  We've even tried de-installing the NBU DC software 
from this system and doing a fresh install of just the client 
software.  But even in this simple configuration, the client daemon bpcd, 
generates the getsockopt: error and unloads.  There is nothing else on this 
system except NBU and AIX since it is going to be a dedicated media server.

If anyone has any ideas on what's going on or what to check, I sure would 
appreciate the feedback.

Joseph

Joseph Ortiz
Sr. Solutions Engineer
StorNet, Inc.
(Formerly Vangard Technology)
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