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Media server verification points for a mixed Windows primary server

The following table describes the media server verification procedures for a mixed Windows primary server.

Table: Media server verification procedures for a mixed Windows primary server

Procedure	Description
Verify the Windows media server for a mixed Windows primary server	See the following topic for the verification procedures for a Windows media server: See Media server verification points for Windows.
Verify the UNIX media server	Check that the computer certificate is issued from the root authentication broker, found on the Windows primary server (win_primary). To determine which authentication broker the media server is authenticated against, run bpnbat -whoami with -cf for the media server's credential file. For example: bpnbat -whoami -cf /usr/openv/var/vxss/credentials/unix_media.company.com Name: unix_media.company.comDomain: NBU_Machines@ win_primary.company.com Issued by: /CN=broker/OU=root@win_primary.company.com/ O=vx Expiry Date: Oct 31 14:48:08 2007 GMT Authentication method: Veritas Private Security Operation completed successfully.
Verify that the server has access to the authorization database	To make sure that the media server is able to access the authorization database it needs to perform authorization checks. Run bpnbaz -ListGroups -CredFile "/usr/openv/var/vxss/credentials/<hostname>" For example: bpnbaz -ListGroups -CredFile\ /usr/openv/var/vxss/credentials/unix_media.company.com NBU_Operator NBU_AdminNBU_SAN Admin NBU_UserNBU_Security Admin Vault_Operator Operation completed successfully. If the media server is not allowed to perform authorization checks, run bpnbaz -allowauthorization on the primary server for the media server name in question.
Unable to load library message	Verify the media server and that it has access to the proper database indirectly. This verification informs us that the NetBackup Authentication and Authorization client libraries for both authentication and authorization are properly installed. If either of these procedures fail with a message "unable to load libraries": Check to make certain the authentication client libraries and authorization client libraries are installed.
Cross platform authentication domains	You may also verify that the authentication domains are correct by viewing the access control host properties for this media server. Or, you may also verify by cat(1)ing the bp.conf file. Take extra care in mixed environments to ensure that the appropriate domain types point to the correct authentication brokers. In the example, note that the PASSWD domains and NIS domains point to unix_media2.company.com, which, in this example, is the UNIX authentication broker: cat bp.conf SERVER = win_primary.company.com MEDIA_SERVER = unix_media.company.com MEDIA_SERVER = unix_media2.company.com CLIENT_NAME = unix_media AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN = win_primary "win_primary domain" WINDOWS win_primary.company.com 0 AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN = enterprise "enterprise domain" WINDOWS win_primary.company.com 0 AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN = unix_media2.company.com "local unix_media2 domain" PASSWD unix_media2.company.com 0 AUTHENTICATION_DOMAIN = min.com "NIS domain" NIS unix_media.company.com 0 AUTHORIZATION_SERVICE = win_primary.company.com 0 USE_VXSS = AUTOMATIC

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