VCB Framework SSL error

[DanGiles]

Well, it looks like that these days I'm asking more questions than I'm answering! Well, it's pay-back time guys

I'm trying to back up a vm guest machine using the TSM 6.1 and the newer VCB framework and am getting the following errors. The only reference I could find was to insert a VerifySSLCertificates option in the registry and set it to '0' (off), but that didn't do anything.

Any clues people? Thanks in advance.

Mount virtual machine disk on backup proxy for VM 'tsmvmwin7'
Executing Operating System command or script:
vcbMounter -h 192.168.1.79 -u Administrator -p **** -a ipaddr:tsmvmwin7 -r "g
:\fullvm\tsmvmwin7\BACKUP_CURRENT" -t fullvm -m nbd
[2010-04-02 13:42:10.772 'App' 1612 info] Current working directory: C:\Program
Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient
[2010-04-02 13:42:10.788 'BaseLibs' 1612 info] HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCo
resPerCPU 4 numThreadsPerCore 1.
[2010-04-02 13:42:10.819 'BaseLibs' 1612 info] HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 phys
ical CPUS, 8 total cores, and 8 logical CPUs.
[2010-04-02 13:42:11.817 'BaseLibs' 1612 info] Using system libcrypto, version 9
0709F
[2010-04-02 13:42:11.926 'BaseLibs' 1612 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: Subject mismatch: bevc vs 192.168.1.79
[2010-04-02 13:42:11.942 'BaseLibs' 1612 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: The remote host certificate has these problems:
* The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the h
ost certificate
* The host certificate chain is not complete.
[2010-04-02 13:42:12.004 'BaseLibs' 1612 warning] SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to
read registry value. Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0
[2010-04-02 13:42:12.036 'BaseLibs' 1612 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the
error
[2010-04-02 13:42:12.940 'vcbMounter' 1612 error] Error: Could not find virtual
machine specified by ipaddr:tsmvmwin7
Finished command. Return code is: 1
ANS9265E Failure mounting Virtual Machine 'tsmvmwin7' with vcbMounter command. R
C=1
ANS9264E Incremental backup of Virtual Machine 'tsmvmwin7' failed with RC 1

Backup VM command complete
Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 0
Total number of virtual machines failed: 1
virtual machine tsmvmwin7
Total number of virtual machines processed: 1

 

[DanGiles]

I just took a closer look and what I did to the registry actually appears to have worked. The error I'm concerned about is

[2010-04-02 13:42:12.940 'vcbMounter' 1612 error] Error: Could not find virtual
machine specified by ipaddr:tsmvmwin7

So I'll be looking at how to solve this, but if anyone can give me the answer straight up, that would save me some time.

Thanks!

 

[mmaliakas]

go to the proxy server that you start the backup of the virtual machine and edit the hosts file located in the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

probably the virtual machine is not member of the domain or the proxy server cannot resolve ip to computer name

just put the following line

ip hostname

example

10.10.10.24 vmserver1

 

[DanGiles]

No, it has nothing to do with that. The DNS knows the IP address and the guest machine knows its IP address. However, when I run vcbvmname with '-s all', the IP address is not set there. I can't figure out how to set it in the virtual center.

 

[mmaliakas]

you have to install vmtool in each virtual machine. Then the ip will be show in Virtual Center

 

[DanGiles]

Well, after figuring out HOW to install vmtools (I am NOT a vmware admin), I tested it out and -- lo and behold -- it works! According to all the docs I read, it seemed like you only need vmtools installed if you wanted to do anything fancy, like run a pre-freeze/post-thaw script.

Thanks maliakas!