Corrections in duplication of clients
This section applies to those clients that are being reported by Veritas NetBackup's VMware policy.
A VMware backup policy in NetBackup can be configured in several ways with Virtual Machine (VM) Primary identifier set to one of
Hostname
Display Name
DNS Name
Instance UUID
BIOS UUID
Due to which the name of the same VM reported by NetBackup may differ depending on how the policy is created, which may result in the same VM getting persisted in Aptare database with different name resulting in duplicates.
To fix the historic data having duplicate clients, execute the following command-line scripts on Data Collector.
Warning:
The command should be executed only after upgrading to version 10.6 P14 or 11.0.02.
Windows:
C:\Program Files\Aptare\mbs\bin\veritas\correct_vm_dup_clients.bat <metaDataCollectorId> <primaryServerName>
Linux:
<APTARE HOME>/mbs/bin/symantec/correct_vm_dup_clients.sh <metaDataCollectorId> <primaryServerName>
Where: The MetadataCollectorID can be found by executing the following utility:
For Windows: C:\opt\Aptare\mbs\bin\listcollectors.bat
For Linux: /opt/aptare/mbs/bin/listcollectors.sh