Well, if this is a media server, then the only daemons
that will be running are Media Manager daemons. Until
the Master initiates a backup, no netbackup daemons
will be running.
You should only see the following when you issue a
bpps -a on your AIX media server
vmd
ltid
txxd
txxcd
avrd
-David
Quoting Joseph Ortiz <jortiz AT stornet DOT com>:
> 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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