Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1
This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included in the NetBackup 8.1.1 release.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3897579
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3897578
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The NetBackup consistency check repair utility (NBCCR) failed with an "Invalid user ID or password" message if the user failed to use the -emmpwd parameter when it was needed.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3918878
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3918877
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Updating a catalog backup policy failed with status 160 ("authentication failed").
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An upgrade to NetBackup 8.0 appears to complete successfully, but deployment of the NetBackup Security Certificate fails with exit status 5969 ("Response from the NetBackup Web Management Console service could not be parsed.")
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The Web Services did not start after an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0 because "NBDB.db" was not at the top of the databases.conf file.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3920096
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3920095
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If a customer added a cloud instance whose name included a forward slash character (/), the customer could not delete that cloud instance.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3919677
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919676
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A Bare Metal Restore client failed to boot up after a restore with error 1962 ("No operating system found").
Associated Primary Etrack: 3916507
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3916506
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An image import failed with status 229 ("events out of sequence - image inconsistency").
Associated Primary Etrack: 3922336
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3922335
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The "current kilobytes written" field displayed an inaccurate value after an SLP-driven optimized deduplication completed.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3926790
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3926789
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A large number of clients ran the query C_BPRD_GET_LOG_DAYS at midnight, resulting in an unintentional DDoS attack.
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The nbcertconfig command regenerated a pre-existing certificate instead of respecting it.
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The lists of media servers and storage units in the Storage Servers and Catalog nodes could not be sorted. Attempting to use the sorting feature sorted the list for a moment, but it immediately reordered itself.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3930557
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930556
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When a user deleted a job in the activity monitor, NetBackup instead deleted a different job on a different remote console.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3931071
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3931070
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A vxpbx_exchanged startup script failed to look at Solaris 11 zones.
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When users attempted to remotely log into the master server using the Java console, the console created half-open connections to PBX.
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The Java GUI logic to set up trust led to several problems. The hostname in the issuer field might not have matched the current master server name, and connections to a media server or client may fail.
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The "nbcertconfig" command did not provide an option to accept the user's web service password when executed manually on Windows. The only way to provide it was to set it in an ENV variable, which was insecure.
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This etrack disabled the NetBackup MySQL option button in the NetBackup installer.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3930152
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930151
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NetBackup Access Control tasks were slow for users who had remote home directories.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3930958
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930957
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When attempting to start the NetBackup Web Management Console (NBWMC) via the command line, NBWMC was unable to deploy a certificate and returned the error ".Ambiguous output redirect".
Associated Primary Etrack: 3931822
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3931821
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NetBackup job completion emails no longer contain an empty attachment or multi- part Part 2.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3932783
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3932782
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A VMware backup failed with error 13 ("file read failed") after upgrading to NetBackup 8.0.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3934253
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3934252
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When attempting to back up a Distributed File System Replication system with a DFSR policy and a non-DFSR policy which included the System State directive and multiple streams, Windows Open File Backup snapshot failed and backups ended with status 1 ("The requested operation was partially successful").
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Multiple client installs using a regular token produced two host database entries for the same client.
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The nbcertcmd command incorrectly reads the bp.conf file for the master server.
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Redirected appliance restores that were targeted to alternate locations intermittently failed and produced core dumps.
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Customers were not able to manually initiate or disable certificate auto-renewals.
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Customers were not able to manually initiate or disable certificate auto-renewals.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910460
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910459
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The granular restore (GRT) catalog extension failed with a "client hostname could not be found" error during duplication of an IP-less distributed access group, because live browse was unable to find an Exchange node.
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The Jobs API produced inconsistent responses if no entities existed.
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If no entities existed, the Images API produced inconsistent responses which did not conform to the API specification.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3908100
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3908098
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A full high-availability restore, targeted to its original location, failed with status 2821 ("Hyper-V policy restore error") on a Japanese Windows Hyper-V cluster.
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If the Jobs API handled incorrect pagination values, its output differed from the output of the Image API.
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This Etrack added an "Overview/Getting started" section to the NetBackup API documentation.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3933387
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3933385
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The NetBackup Client Service (nbcs) crashed when attempting to collect custom attributes from a standalone ESXi host.