Sandeep
I would see if Ed responds to this, because I know full well he has
experienced MAJOR headaches with the schedule - last I recall, he had a
binary "fix" for it !

Maybe your Symantec Engineer doesn't know much??

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Bhangui, Sandeep - BLS CTR [mailto:Bhangui.Sandeep at bls.gov] 
Sent: 25 July 2006 19:17
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler woes with Ver 6.0 + MP3


Hi
        Wondering whether anyone on this forum has seen this behavior.

Environment:  Solaris 8 shop.

Master and Media on the same server running Netbackup Ver 6.0 + MP3. This is
a fresh 6.0 install.

Adic scalar 24 attached to the Master server.

Backups run fine for few days and than the scheduler just stops working. The
scheduler can be made to work only by stopping and starting Netbackup.

Some features seen in the process are.

1. Typically the scheduler stops working when the backup on one of the
clients has failed with a status code. From the status code one can figure
out why the client failed. But I cannot find the reason as to why the
scheduler just stops working when such a incident occurs.

I think in the normal scheme of things if a backup on a client fails than
the software should just put the Status error code and move on to the other
scheduled policies and perform the backups for those policies. But that is
not happening. Once the backup of a client has failed no other policies
scheduled after that runs.

2. Once the above mentioned situation happens. If I try to run
"/etc/init.d/netbackup" or bp.kill_all to stop Netbackup. It cannot stop the
Policy Execution Manager, it just hangs while trying to stop that.

No choice but to CTRL C out and than use kill -9 to kill all nbpem
processes. Once those are killed and I run /etc/init.d/netbackup stop or
bp.kill_all it stops all the remaining processes and comes back to the
prompt.

Somehow my nbpem process is getting hosed/or hung . I am working with
Support on this and provided them the requested logs. Not heard back from
them and hence wondering if anyone has seen anything like this, as I know
Ver 6.0 has lot of issues with Scheduler but was told by support that all
necessary patches for scheduler are included in MP3.

Any suggestions.

Thanks
Sandeep


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