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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
  3. Installing OpsCenter
  4. About clustering OpsCenter
  5. Connecting Authentication Service and Veritas Private Branch Exchange
Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Connecting Authentication Service and Veritas Private Branch Exchange

An OpsCenter cluster requires that the authentication service (OpsCenter AT) and PBX components that are installed on the remote host are connected. To check if AT and PBX are connected, verify whether pbxexchflag of the authentication service is set or not. When pbxexchflag is set, its value is equal to 1 and this means that PBX and AT are connected.

Note:

The information in this section applies to OpsCenter clusters only.

Before setting the value of pbxexchflag, you must stop all OpsCenter Server services, Authentication Service and Veritas Private Branch Exchange. After setting the value of pbxexchflag to 1, you must restart these services.

Use the following procedure to connect the authentication service and PBX components.

To connect Authentication Service and Veritas Private Branch Exchange on Windows

  1. Open the command prompt and enter the following command:
    <INSTALL_PATH>\Security\Authentication\bin\vssat.exe showispbxexchflag

    This command gives the value of pbxexchflag. If the value of pbxexchflag is 0, you need to set it to 1.

    In case the value of pbxexchflag is 1, you do not need to follow the remaining steps.

  2. Navigate to <INSTALL_PATH>\Security\Authentication\bin directory. Enter the following command at the bin directory to set the value of pbxexchflag:
    vssat.exe setispbxexchflag --enable

    The value of pbxexchflag is set to 1.

    Verify if the value of pbxexchflag is 1.

    See step 1.

  3. Stop all the OpsCenter Server services by executing the following command:
    <INSTALL_PATH>\OpsCenter\server\bin\opsadmin.bat stop
  4. Stop Authentication Service by performing either of the following steps:
    • Use the stop option in the Windows Service pane, or

    • Execute the following command in a command console:

      net stop ops_atd
  5. Restart Authentication Service by performing either of the following steps:
    • Use the start option in the Windows Service pane, or

    • Execute the following command in a command console:

      net start ops_atd
  6. Restart all the OpsCenter Server services by performing the following steps:
    • Navigate to <INSTALL_PATH>\OpsCenter\server\bin directory.

    • Restart all the OpsCenter Server services by executing the following command:

      opsadmin.bat start

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