We had a problem with
some daemon (nbemm I think) dumping in / (on HP-UX as you note) so created a
symlink named /core to point to an empty file in the /usr/openv
filesystem. That made it dump there instead. Of course if
something else in root dumps core it would go there too but we preferred that
occurring to filling up /.
From:
Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:21
AM
To: Jeff Lightner; Kelly B
Harris; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Can't access
policies from Java GUI
The issue is specifically that NOM
causes the nbsl (NetBackup Service Layer) daemon to dump core (which,
incidentally, it does in /, at least on HP-UX, which is just
Swell).
NetBackup can function normally for
backups without nbsl running, but various pieces of the GUI interface can't work
without it (polices as mentioned here, but also the robotic inventory
dialog).
The Java GUI's error message is, as
you note, fairly worthless. The full-on Windows GUI is a bit better, suggesting
that the "NetBackup Service Layer Service (Service Layer Daemon)" is
down.
As near as I can tell, there's no
problem caused by simply starting nbsl back up again (just run
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsl; it fork()/execv()s on its own, no need for a
nohup or anything).
No, I don't have a case open with
Symantec about it, nor do I know any more details about the root cause. (I'm not
the member of my team working on configuring NOM.)
--
gabriel
rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup &
Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
From: Jeff
Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:10
PM
To: Kelly B Harris;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't access
policies from Java GUI
Kelly,
We turned off NOM and
that seemed to clear it up back then. The rest of the thread form
May including Ken Zufall who had suggested NOM was the issue. I guess I
forgot to post that it cleared the problem for us.
From: Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Thursday, May
01, 2008 10:04 AM
To:
ken_zufall AT goodyear DOT com
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Can't access
policies from Java GUI
Thanks.
I’d seen a technote at
Symantec about similar message not related to Policies though and it noted that
NOM could be an issue for that problem.
We did just turn on NOM
yesterday so we’ll try turning it off to see if it
helps.
From:
ken_zufall AT goodyear DOT com [mailto:ken_zufall AT goodyear DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:57
AM
To: Jeff
Lightner
Subject: Re:
[Veritas-bu] Can't access policies from Java GUI
Jeff,
We saw the same thing when we went
from 5.1 to 6.5. However, our issue isn't likely to be the same as
yours--we have since discovered that our master server just isn't beefy enough
now. We installed NOM and its constant calls for information (policies,
media, etc) totally slammed the master. We haven't seen the problem since
we turned NOM off.
Hope that helps,
Ken Zufall
Technical
Analyst
D660C
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
GTN 446.0592 or
330.796.0592
From: Kelly B
Harris [mailto:kbharris AT uab DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 4:11
PM
To: Jeff Lightner;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Can't access
policies from Java GUI
Has anyone
experience this? We are after upgrading from 6.0MP to
6.5.1.
Kelly
Harris
University Of Alabama Birmingham
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:40
AM
To:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Can't access policies
from Java GUI
We
upgraded from 6.0 MP4 to 6.5 earlier this
week.
This morning I’m attempting to view
a policy from the Java GUI. This is timing out and telling me
that it can’t connect to the master
server and says to check to be sure necessary daemons are running.
It doesn’t say WHICH daemon unfortunately.
It
does eventually show me the policy but any time I click on things within it I
seem to be getting the same error or timeout.
Running bpps –a from command
line on master shows
me many processes including the daemons
I’m used to seeing.
Activity Monitor in the Java GUI has
no issues.
Backups are running and I was able
to kick off a restore so I don’t want to just stop/start NetBackup.
Everything seems operational except this.
bpplinfo from command line on master
shows policy information without an issue.
Can
someone tell me which specific daemon would be involved
here?
Is
there some security setting in 6.5 required to allow me to view policies that
wasn’t there in 6.0 that might be causing this
issue?
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