Networker

Re: [Networker] client not registered problem

2003-06-23 11:46:04
Subject: Re: [Networker] client not registered problem
From: Jack Lyons <jack.lyons AT MARTINAGENCY DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:45:48 -0400
Was a backup job running when you added the client.  Have you rebooted the
server.

I believe I had a similar issue and was told by Legato Support that it can
sometimes take a long time to register a client if a job is running.  I
believe rebooting the server fixed it.


HTH
Jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oscar NOSPAM Olsson [mailto:spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] client not registered problem
>
> When I add a new client, it sometimes doesn't work, even though the config
> is correct. It complains that the client I have just defined is not
> registered. I'm not sure wether if it has something to do with an
> unsuccessful previous attempt before the configuration was changed or not.
>
> I run networker 6.1.3 on solaris 7. I have disabled the nscd daemon. The
> client host is running networker software as it should. After a reboot,
> the client now thinks it is called the FQDN, which caused the group to
> fail previously. Now it still says that the client isn't registered. All
> forward and reverselookups of DNS info checks out from both hosts. So I
> restart the networker software with /etc/init.d/networker stop and then
> start on the backup server, and it works! It smells like a bug/cache issue
> of some kind to me!
>
> Here's the output from the job before the networker software was
> restarted:
>
> NetWorker Savegroup: (alert) AssaAbloy completed, 1 client(s)
> (aadmz1.assaabloy.com Failed)
> Start time:   Mon Jun 23 17:04:30 2003
> End time:     Mon Jun 23 17:05:15 2003
>
> --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
>
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/ 1 retry attempted
>   aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/: No full backups of this save set were found in
> the media database; performing a full backup
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/ rcmd aadmz1.assaabloy.com, user root: `save -s
> britt.qbranch.se -g AssaAbloy -LL -m aadmz1.assaabloy.com -l full -W 78 -N
> / /'
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/ save: SYSTEM error: `aadmz1.assaabloy.com' is not
> a registered client
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/ save: Cannot open save session with
> britt.qbranch.se
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot 1 retry attempted
>   aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot: No full backups of this save set were found
> in the media database; performing a full backup
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot rcmd aadmz1.assaabloy.com, user root: `save
> -s britt.qbranch.se -g AssaAbloy -LL -m aadmz1.assaabloy.com -l full -W 78
> -N /boot /boot'
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot save: SYSTEM error: `aadmz1.assaabloy.com' is
> not a registered client
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot save: Cannot open save session with
> britt.qbranch.se
>
> --- Successful Save Sets ---
>
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index rcmd localhost, user root: `save -s
> britt.qbranch.se -S -g AssaAbloy -LL -f - -m britt.qbranch.se -V -t
> 1056378808 -l 9 -LL -W 78 -N
> index:ce4e22d4-00000004-3ef70f7f-3ef70f7e-0bc70000-0a000607
> /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com'
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index save: Saving files modified since Mon Jun 23
> 16:33:28 2003.
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index
>   britt.qbranch.se: index:aadmz1.assaabloy.com level=9, 0 KB 00:00:38
> 0 files
>
>
> And then after the restart:
>
> NetWorker Savegroup: (notice) AssaAbloy completed, 1 client(s) (All
> Succeeded)
> Start time:   Mon Jun 23 17:07:39 2003
> End time:     Mon Jun 23 17:14:42 2003
>
> --- Successful Save Sets ---
>
> Successful Save Sets written to verified media noted with "V" in first
> column.
>
> [truncated output since it was too verbose for this list]
>
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /boot/System.map-2.4.20
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /boot/config-2.4.20
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /boot/
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /boot//
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot /
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:/boot
> V aadmz1.assaabloy.com: /boot       level=full,   3432 KB 00:01:47     19
> files
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index rcmd localhost, user root: `save -s
> britt.qbranch.se -S -g AssaAbloy -LL -f - -m britt.qbranch.se -V -t
> 1056378808 -l 9 -LL -W 78 -N
> index:ce4e22d4-00000004-3ef70f7f-3ef70f7e-0bc70000-0a000607
> /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com'
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index save: Saving files modified since Mon Jun 23
> 16:33:28 2003.
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index
> /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com/db6/3ef71884.rec
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index
> /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com/db6/3ef71883.rec
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com/db6/
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index /var/backup/index/aadmz1.assaabloy.com/
> * aadmz1.assaabloy.com:index
>   britt.qbranch.se: index:aadmz1.assaabloy.com level=9, 3174 KB 00:00:10
> 4 files
>
> Now, can anyone explain that? :) Its kind of frustrating to troubleshoot a
> client for almost an hour every time one adds a new server to be backed
> up. :/
>
> //Oscar
>
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