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Release Update NB_JAV_6.5.3.tar provides an update to Veritas NetBackup (tm) Enterprise Server / Server 6.5 Java on UNIX platforms.
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JAV 6.5 Pack NB_JAV_6.5.3 README November 10, 2008
Deleted: usr/openv/java/nbjP.jar
SeqNumber: 20080731
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This Release Update provides an update to Veritas NetBackup (tm) Java for UNIX.
================================================================================
====================
RELEASE DEPENDENCIES
====================
-- Installation of this Release Update requires version 1.6.4.14.4.2 of the
NB_update.install script.
I. NEW FEATURES AND PLATFORM PROLIFERATIONS
II. KNOWN ISSUES
III. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
IV. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
V. UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
VI. CURRENT RELEASE UPDATE INDEX
VII. RELEASE UPDATE CONTENT
Conventions
Current Release Update
NB_JAV_6.5.3
Release Update History
NB_JAV_6.5.2
NB_JAV_6.5.1
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I. NEW FEATURES AND PLATFORM PROLIFERATIONS
============================================
New features, enhancements, and platform proliferations have been made to
NetBackup 6.5.3. For a complete list of the additions and enhancements, refer
to the New Features and Platform Proliferations section in the NB_6.5.3 UNIX
server online Readme.
=================
II. KNOWN ISSUES
=================
This section contains known issues with this Release Update that have not
yet been fixed in NetBackup. These issues will likely be fixed in future
Release Updates for this version of NetBackup.
+ Currently, there are no known issues with this Release Update.
==========================
III. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
==========================
1) Download NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar into the /tmp directory.
where <6 digit number> is an internal tracking identifier
2) Extract NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar
/bin/tar -xvf NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar
This will create the files:
NB_update.install
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.README
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.postinstall
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.postuninstall
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.tar.Z
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IV. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
=============================
** The content of this online Readme supersedes the information in the Readme
contained in the download. **
NOTE: Click on the "Download Now" link, near the bottom of this document
prior to running the following installation procedure for this Release Update.
1) Close the NetBackup user interfaces.
- Make sure the NetBackup server has no active jobs running (for example,
backups, restores, or duplications).
- If a database agent is being used, such as Oracle, ensure that the database
services are stopped.
For LOCAL installs:
As root ONLY on Solaris, HP-UX, HP-UX-IA64, Linux, Alpha or RS6000
NetBackup Master/Media/Client machine:
2) Install the Release Update binaries.
cd /tmp
/bin/sh NB_update.install
Note: The subject matter on the second line of this README with
the keyword "Deleted" causes NB_update.install
to delete a file if it exists. It is used exclusively by the
NB_update.install script for install purposes
only and requires no actions from the user.
For REMOTE installs:
As root on all NetBackup Master/Media Servers:
2) Install the Release Update binaries.
cd /tmp
/bin/sh NB_update.install
3) Update any NetBackup clients that use the NetBackup Java applications.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients
=========================
V. UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
=========================
Note: This will ONLY uninstall the Release Update from your local machine.
As root:
1) Close the NetBackup user interfaces.
Make sure the NetBackup server has no active jobs running (for
example, backups, restores, or duplications).
If a database agent is being used, such as Oracle,
ensure that the database services are stopped.
2) Change directory to the patch save directory.
Substitute the Release Update name for ${PACK} in the following command:
cd /usr/openv/pack/${PACK}/save
3) Run the un-install script:
./NB_update.uninstall
4) Verify that the Release Update uninstalled successfully by checking
/usr/openv/pack/pack.history.
5) If update_clients was run after the Release Update was originally
INSTALLED, and the Release Update is successfully UNINSTALLED, run:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients
6) If necessary, restart the NetBackup and Media Manager daemons:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.start_all
The Release Update install logs can be found in /usr/openv/pack/pack.history
once the installation is complete.
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VI. CURRENT RELEASE UPDATE INDEX
================================
This section contains a master index for all UNIX packages of Etracks that
have been fixed in this release, sorted according to the containers that
they comprise.
NB_6.5.3
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1275559 1302929 1302749 1317013 1317008 1317006 1317202 1317047 1276489 1318091
1289921 1322984 1364407 1364422 1322803 1364661 1373019 1383374 1382658 1383586
1383584 1184889 1276613 1382632 1383839 1383438 1383440 1383434 1383442 1383733
1383750 1383540 1384029 1375483 1383736 1383527 1383523 1384879 1385083 1385111
1386294 1383757 1384675 1383511 1385061 1382599 1376805 1383782 1383502 1383497
1383499 1384270 1386057 1386060 1383811 1383808 1382683 1384822 1386064 1386062
1386073 1383727 1383766 1386069 1384960 1386075 1386077 1384019 1386065 1386070
1387046 1383743 1384952 1387039 1383643 1384946 1384943 1388149 1384948 1383744
1386199 1384909 1389088 1374330 1388180 1383756 1388192 1382684 1383404 1390335
1383742 1383761 1391168 1382623 1391109 1383763 1394025 1383630 1392132 1388236
1384020 1395057 1384919 1383792 1383772 1393919 1384032 1384023 1384966 1395393
1383506 1396153 1391110 1397984 1399794 1393810 1393798 1397604 1398627 1388000
1387827 1393793 1396248 1402394 1396112 1395233 1402922 1403920 1405290 1402967
1320530 1398698 1396083 1392668 1409131 1409154 1411251 1411776 1410874 1412331
1408807 1412417 1413338 1411302 1413269 1410786 1413572 1385085 1414212 1412557
1415612 1413649 1401482 1413567 1415683 1414541 1416768 1421025 1425093 1424266
1423453 1425900 1425285 1428096 1423583 1426958 1427064 1429629 1430825 1428794
1431220 1428632 1432786 1431217 1431957 1432152 1432733 1431905 1436492 1436738
1439637
NB_BBS_6.5.3
------------
1386047 1383479
NB_BMR_6.5.3
------------
1289330 1385881
NB_CLT_6.5.3
------------
1275559 1302929 1302749 1317013 1317008 1317006 1317202 1317047 1276489 1318091
1289921 1322984 1364407 1364422 1322803 1364661 1373019 1383374 1382658 1383586
1383584 1184889 1276613 1382632 1383839 1383438 1383440 1383434 1383442 1383733
1383750 1383540 1384029 1375483 1383736 1382523 1383527 1383523 1384879 1385083
1385111 1386294 1383757 1384675 1383511 1385061 1382599 1384892 1376805 1383782
1383502 1383497 1383499 1384270 1386057 1386060 1383811 1383808 1382683 1384822
1386064 1386062 1386073 1383727 1383766 1386069 1384960 1386075 1386077 1384019
1386065 1386070 1387046 1383743 1384952 1387039 1383643 1384946 1384943 1388149
1384948 1383744 1386199 1384909 1389088 1374330 1388180 1383756 1388192 1382684
1383404 1387984 1390335 1383742 1383761 1391168 1382623 1391109 1383763 1394025
1383630 1392132 1388236 1384020 1395057 1384919 1383792 1383772 1393919 1384032
1384023 1384966 1395393 1383506 1396153 1391110 1397984 1399794 1393810 1393798
1397604 1398627 1388000 1387827 1393793 1396248 1402394 1396112 1395233 1402922
1403920 1405290 1402967 1320530 1398698 1396083 1392668 1409131 1409154 1411251
1411776 1410874 1412331 1408807 1412417 1413338 1411302 1413269 1410786 1413572
1385085 1414212 1412557 1415612 1413649 1401482 1413567 1415683 1414541 1416768
1421025 1425093 1424266 1423453 1425900 1425285 1428096 1423583 1426958 1427064
1429629 1430825 1428794 1431220 1428632 1432786 1431217 1431957 1432152 1432733
1431905 1436492 1436738 1439637
NB_DB2_6.5.3
------------
1388132
NB_DMP_6.5.3
------------
1384031
NB_INX_6.5.3
------------
1404905 1416672
NB_JAV_6.5.3
------------
1316222 1316255 1316257 1383469 1386728 1388080 1393518 1400256
NB_LOT_6.5.3
------------
1318437
NB_LUA_6.5.3
------------
1380529
NB_NOM_6.5.3
------------
1383447 1384380 1390067 1391157 1391161 1395092 1399345 1409923 1409925 1423226
NB_SAP_6.5.3
------------
1227447 1386537 1227458 1411527
NB_SMU_6.5.3
------------
1387861 1387867
NB_SNC_6.5.3
------------
1383582 1383429 1382596 1383498 1384025 1394039 1395089 1383512 1401373 1398467
1410597
NB_VLT_6.5.3
------------
1383258 1385764 1386756 1385614 1386760 1386763 1386750 1396286 1402907 1404850
===========================
VII. RELEASE UPDATE CONTENT
===========================
This section contains the Release Update conventions, content, and historical
content that is applicable to the release.
Conventions:
------------
The following list describes the conventions used in the subsections that
following this section. Each item listed in the Current Release Update
subsection describes a feature, enhancement, or issue fixed with this
Release Update.
Description
Describes a particular problem contained in this release update.
** Description **
Describes a problem that can lead to potential data loss. Please
read these problem descriptions carefully.
Workaround
Any available workarounds to a problem are also listed. Workarounds can be
used INSTEAD of applying the patch, however, Symantec strongly recommends
the "best practice" of being at the latest available patch level.
Additional Notes
Any additional information regarding a problem is included.
Current Release Update
----------------------
Each item listed in this section describes a feature, enhancement, or change
that comprises this Release Update. Please read this section thoroughly to
understand the contents of this update.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316222
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1300428
Titan cases: 320-117-507
Description:
The Activity Monitor jobs data was displayed wrong when using a
NetBackup 6.5.2 administration console with a NetBackup 6.5.1 master server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316255
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1292734
Titan cases: 220-320-996
Description:
A change was made that ensures the NetBackup_Java Administration Console
can display the Activity Monitor when administering a NetBackup 6.5.1
master server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316257
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1297807
Titan cases: 220-326-939
Description:
A change has been added that ensures the NetBackup-Java Administration
Console can be used to administer (modify or deactivate policies) on
back-level, NetBackup master servers.
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Etrack Incident = ET1383469
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1369746
Titan cases: 311-971-197
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would fail to connect to the
NetBackup Service Layer (NBSL) service using PBX if the primary hostname
returned by PBX was not resolvable from NetBackup-Java Administration
Console host.
Workaround:
If you encounter this issue, use the FIREWALL_IN option in the nbj.conf
file on NetBackup-Java Administration Console host.
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Etrack Incident = ET1386728
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1363804
Titan cases: 291-026-369
Description:
An error would occur if you select a directory to restore and the name
of the directory contained an & (ampersand) character in it. You would
receive an Invalid Character error.
Backups of directories that have an & (ampersand) character in the name
would perform okay. However, when these directories are selected in
either the NetBackup-Java Administration Console or the Windows
Administration Console, an error would still occur.
In addition, directories that have an & (ampersand) character in the
name can be restored in full, but you are unable to enter the directories
to select individual sub-directories or files within.
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Etrack Incident = ET1388080
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1273691
Titan cases: 320-103-515
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Vault - "Robotic Volume
Group" drop-down would take between 15 and 30 minutes to populate.
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Etrack Incident = ET1393518
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would crash after enabling NBAC
on a Linux RedHat IA64 machine.
Workaround:
To work around this issue, run the following commands:
export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/VRTSat/lib/ia64/libstdc++.so.5
./jnbSA
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Etrack Incident = ET1400256
Description:
The "View FT Connections" would not display under Media-Devices when a
backup was in progress.
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Release Update History
----------------------
This section contains an accumulative list of all Release Update information
contained in previous releases.
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NB_JAV_6.5.2
============
Etrack Incident = ET1166299
Description:
A new feature has been added that enables AdvancedDisk disk pools to be
configured for multiple StorageServers.
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Etrack Incident = ET1168612
Description:
You can now disable Reverse Hostname Lookup using the new "Network
Settings" Node in Host Properties using NetBackup Administration Console.
This Node is available for Master, Media, and Client Host Properties for
hosts with NetBackup version 6.5.2 and above.
The three settings for the "Reverse Hostname Lookup" are ALLOWED,
RESTRICTED, and PROHIBITED with ALLOWED as the default setting.
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Etrack Incident = ET1127780
Description:
When using SnapShot wizard, the Full schedule backup window was created
incorrectly.
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Etrack Incident = ET1173718
Titan cases: 320063430
Description:
The restore of an AIX, Bare Metal Restore client would fail if the
"Intrapolicy" property was changed to "inner edge" or "inner middle" using
the change AIX Logical volume properties dialog in the NetBackup-Java
Administration Console.
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Etrack Incident = ET1124806
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would incorrectly report license
key expiration for permanent license keys. In addition, an extra record
was shown in license keys exported file.
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Etrack Incident = ET1180766
Description:
A warning note has been added on the Volume Selection page of Disk Pool
wizard.
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Etrack Incident = ET1145815
Description:
A change has been made to the Client Host Properties page so that it
displays "SharePoint" in Client Properties list instead of "SharePoint
2003" because multiple versions of SharePoint are supported.
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Etrack Incident = ET1166891
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console showed an offline catalog backup
as "not scheduled to run" in the wizard even though it was scheduled to run.
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Etrack Incident = ET1076281
Description:
The default size of controls for "IP address" shown in the Host Properties
are not the proper size.
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Etrack Incident = ET1045745
Description:
The size of the labels are inconsistent with table headers in Disk Pool
Configuration wizard.
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Etrack Incident = ET1066828
Description:
While changing the client configuration for a Bare Metal Restore client,
the user interface would not allow you to map a Linux Volume Group when
free space on selected disks was less that the used space on the Volume
Group. This would occur even when the option to automatically map volumes
was not selected.
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Etrack Incident = ET1189501
Description:
If Vault was not installed but licensed, then the sub-node, Vault reports
that are under the Reports node would not appear in the NetBackup-Java
Administration Console on UNIX or the NetBackup Administration Console for
Windows.
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Etrack Incident = ET1115059
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1101477
Titan cases: 240-570-206
Description:
When running multiple versions of the NetBackup-Java Administration Console
on a Windows platform, the preferences of a previously opened Java Console
get overwritten by a new console if the new console is not the same version.
Additional Notes:
On non-Windows platforms, execute the following before starting the
Administration Console, to migrate the existing settings to the new
version-specific location. Failure to do so causes you to lose existing
settings.
migrate_Preferences.sh
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Etrack Incident = ET1084397
Description:
The Disk Pool wizard was disabled while performing a change server
operation; changing from a Master Server to a Media Server on Windows.
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Etrack Incident = ET1132128
Description:
Added configuration options for the DISK_CLIENT and NDMP_CLIENT settings
via the Host Properties.
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Etrack Incident = ET1177115
Description:
While performing a Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) for a Bare Metal Restore
Client, a new option has been added in the following mapping wizards:
- HP volume group - "Simplify volume group" option
- AIX volume group - "Simplify volume group" option
- VxVM disk group for AIX, HP, and Solaris - "Simplify disk group" option
- SVM disk set - "Simplify disk set" option
This option is enabled when you choose the option to automatically map
all volumes in the above wizard. When selected, this option allows you to
break mirror volumes in one step from the user interface.
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Etrack Incident = ET1189940
Description:
In the Restore Dialog under the SharePoint tab, a new option has been added
to enable a user to decide to overwrite existing documents or do not restore
existing documents while performing a SharePoint granular restore.
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Etrack Incident = ET1189972
Description:
In the Activity Monitor user interface, it is common for jobs to display
as "queued". However, it is not clear to a user as to why the job is
in a waiting state. In situations where a user may have hundreds of queued
jobs, it would be beneficial to have a way to see what resources are in
contention.
An enhancment has been made to the NetBackup Administration Console's
Activity Monitor job display to include a new column that shows the reason
why a job is queued and in a waiting state. In addition, some of the
information that is displayed in the new column is available by using the
job details.
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Etrack Incident = ET1180994
Description:
Added the ability for a user to set the "Preserve multiplexing" flag just
as they could with any other duplication feature in NetBackup.
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Etrack Incident = ET1195877
Description:
Changes have been added to this release to improve the consistency and
usability of the Job Priority Scheme.
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Etrack Incident = ET1195901
Description:
Improvements have been made to the Consistency and Usability of the Job
Priority Scheme (for example, changes have been made for the Tape Contents
Report).
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Etrack Incident = ET1183882
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, descriptive messages were
added to the radio buttons of the Restore option, on the Restore dialog.
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Etrack Incident = ET1195900
Description:
Improvements have been made for the Consistency and Usability of Job
Priority Scheme that include the addition of a new node to in the Master
Server Host Properties.
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Etrack Incident = ET1199217
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration console, Disk Pools can now be created
using a period "." as a character in the name.
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Etrack Incident = ET1178657
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration console, a check box has been added
to control the behavior of the port number selection while creating a new
virtual machine server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1196449
Description:
A change has been made that ensures a user will see all of the options
under the Credential tab after the user has changed the server from a
master to a media on the NetBackup Administration console. Before this
change, a user would not have seen the Disk Array Hosts, VM Hosts, or Open
Storage Servers options after making the change to a Windows media server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1198943
Description:
While creating a snapshot backup policy, a feature has been added to the
NetBackup Administration Console to disable the "snapshot only" option
when the backup type that is selected is cumulative and differential
incremental.
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Etrack Incident = ET1201553
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1199766
Titan cases: 230-470-921
Description:
The Change Schedule panel in the NetBackup-Java Administration Console did
not display or retain the setting for the override policy volume pool.
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Etrack Incident = ET1199636
Description:
A change has been made to gray-out the Storage Unit field when Snapshot
is selected in the user interface.
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Etrack Incident = ET1196047
Description:
A fix has been made to ensure that there is no more than one snapshot
destination in a lifecycle policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1111754
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, comments have been added about
using fully qualified names, while entering names for VMWare clients.
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Etrack Incident = ET1202596
Description:
On the NetBackup Administration Console, the snapshot as destination option
is disabled if the feature is not licensed, while creating a storage
lifecycle policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1212368
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, Advanced Disk Pool could be
created after changing the server to 6.5.1 media.
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Etrack Incident = ET1196046
Description:
Warning messages on NetBackup-Java Administration Console were corrected
while adding a schedule for a policy, with a storage lifecyle policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1219958
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the storage unit option would
become enabled when the destination was something other than a Snapshot
while creating a new storage lifecycle policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1209200
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the virtual machine clients
display the timestamp while browsing for virtual machines.
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Etrack Incident = ET1214798
Description:
There were inconsistencies between the Java and Windows version of the
NetBackup Administration Console regarding the implementation of the,
"Improve Consistency and Usability of Job Priority Scheme".
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Etrack Incident = ET1214237
Description:
The default value in the Job Priority field that is displayed on the policy
tab was not correct.
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Etrack Incident = ET1221478
Description:
The Oracle restore user interface was not appearing in BAR user interface.
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Etrack Incident = ET1223376
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1222651
Titan cases: 220-220-681 290-939-111
Description:
A spinning V would not appear in NetBackup-Java Administration Console >
Host Properties > Clients when fetching data. This gave the impression that
no work was being done.
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Etrack Incident = ET1153970
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1129229
Titan cases: 240-615-220
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would hanged while attempting to
apply an advanced filter on a search of images.
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Etrack Incident = ET1206951
Description:
On the NetBackup Administration Console, a storage unit could be modified
from staging to nonstaging and vice versa while modifying a storage unit.
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Etrack Incident = ET1118686
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, a Full backup was checked
"No" as the default option while selecting storage unit backup types for
a snapshot backup policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1223528
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console could not locate the AT client
libraries on Linux IA64 platforms.
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Etrack Incident = ET1225696
Description:
Overridden job priority for duplication, verify, import, and Media Contents
from the "Host Properties" was not reflected on the Catalog search images
screen and the Tape Contents report.
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Etrack Incident = ET1225811
Description:
Job Priority column on the Activity Monitor implemented as part of this
release should be hidden if administering a NetBackup 6.5 master server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1228952
Description:
A change has been made to enable the "Restore to RSG" option when it is
a snapshot image.
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Etrack Incident = ET1181044
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1175871
Titan cases: 290-898-929
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, UNIX OS commands were being
restricted.
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Etrack Incident = ET1232612
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, cluster hosts could be added
to the server group.
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Etrack Incident = ET1190114
Description:
NetBackup-Java Administration Console (UNIX) and the NetBackup
Administration Console for Windows would take an unacceptable time to open
the Vault node when Vault is licensed but not installed.
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Etrack Incident = ET1236368
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Mailbox or Public folders
could be opened while restoring a Microsoft Exchange type of backup.
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Etrack Incident = ET1155281
Description:
A change has been made to ensure that EMC Power Path (PP) disks are not
allowed to be added to volume groups.
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Etrack Incident = ET1179943
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1131280
Titan cases: 220-107-289
Description:
The ForceReset setting for the Device Monitor will be externalized in
nbj.conf file. If this property does not exist or its value is set to 1,
the user preferences will be set to the default RefreshRate of 600 sec.
If the ForceReset settings value is 0, the the refresh rate will be set to
the user's set preferences.
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Etrack Incident = ET1210565
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1208274
Titan cases: 320-088-544
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, devices could be viewed
through the device management tab.
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Etrack Incident = ET1156185
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the confirmation dialog was
not shown for alternate clients selected while creating a new snapshot
backup policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1186141
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console now has the ability to control
an identity restore and strip all network information while restoring
VMware.
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Etrack Incident = ET1135472
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1018561
Titan cases: 290-695-012
Description:
In NetBackup-Java Administration Console, an addition was made to support
FIREWALL_IN, REQUIRED_INTERFACE and REQUIRED_NETWORK.
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Etrack Incident = ET1243499
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, catalog backups could be
created using the Catalog Backup wizard.
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Etrack Incident = ET1228986
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the "NetBackup key management
service" daemon was shown in the daemon tab of Activity Monitor.
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Etrack Incident = ET1249027
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Vault node could not be
expanded to see the vault robots that were attached.
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Etrack Incident = ET1235952
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1186044
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Bare Metal Restore
Change Configuration dialog would fail in some cases while changing the
host entries.
Additional Notes:
You must apply the NB_BMR patch container along with the Java patch
container for this fix to work correctly.
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Etrack Incident = ET1251838
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, a user can create Live
Update policies and run them.
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Etrack Incident = ET1254388
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, some descriptions have been
improved and added for Snapshot Client options while creating a new Snapshot
Client policy.
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============
NB_JAV_6.5.1
============
Etrack Incident = ET1105102
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows
becomes unresponsive while activating and deactivating more
than 50 policies.
Workaround:
If there are a large number of policies to be activated (or
deactivated), then activate (or deactivate) each policy one-by-one
or in smaller groups.
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Etrack Incident = ET1065536
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, for the host
properties of the master server, the image catalog cleanup
interval range was incorrect.
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Etrack Incident = ET1055292
Description:
If the scan progress failed while scanning for devices from the
Device configuration wizard, the image shown to indicate the
failure was also incorrect.
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Etrack Incident = ET1105104
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows
becomes unresponsive while deleting more than 50 policies.
Workaround:
If there are large number of policies to be deleted, then delete
each policy one-by-one or in smaller groups (less than 50).
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Etrack Incident = ET1113359
Description:
Filling a Linux LVM1 volume group with DDR can cause the
restoration to fail.
Workaround:
When mapping volumes to an LVM1 (not LVM2) volume group for a Linux
client, leave some free space in the volume group that is equivalent
to the size of one physical extent.
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Etrack Incident = ET1114102
Description:
While doing a Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) with Bare Metal
Restore (BMR), mapping a Linux Volume Group with the option "Create
the physical volume on a partition on the remaining free space"
caused the map operation to fail.
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Etrack Incident = ET1059702
Description:
Busy animations would be hidden when a switch was made from
volume pool (or volume group ) to Media node, while the media
information is still being fetched.
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Etrack Incident = ET1120612
Description:
While activating or deactivating multiple policies from the
NetBackup-Java Administrator Console, only a few of the policies
would be activated or deactivated.
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Etrack Incident = ET1137009
Description:
The Restore Marked Files dialog has the following two options
at the top:
- Restore the entire virtual machine
- Restore only virtual machine data files
The second option has been reworded to read "Restore all virtual
machine files to the staging machine".
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Etrack Incident = ET1137032
Description:
The user interface currently allows a user to enter a credential
for a VMWare converter. This credential is not needed by VMWare
and should no longer be included.
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Etrack Incident = ET1140441
Description:
If there are more than 500 virtual machines, it takes a long time
on the user interface to show the list on the virtual machine
browse dialog. Caching of the virtual machine list and fetching the
virtual machine list on demand is now supported.
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Etrack Incident = ET1147300
Description:
BMR did not properly support the backup and restoration of Solaris
clients that had EMC Powerpath disks.
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Etrack Incident = ET1158537
Description:
A Null Pointer exception would occur if a user performed any drive
cleaning operation while drive information was being retrieved.
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Etrack Incident = ET1160278
Description:
While editing the Fragment size field from Storage Unit dialog in
NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows, the correct
value did not get saved under certain circumstances.
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================================================================================
This Release Update provides an update to Veritas NetBackup (tm) Java for UNIX.
================================================================================
====================
RELEASE DEPENDENCIES
====================
-- Installation of this Release Update requires version 1.6.4.14.4.2 of the
NB_update.install script.
I. NEW FEATURES AND PLATFORM PROLIFERATIONS
II. KNOWN ISSUES
III. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
IV. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
V. UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
VI. CURRENT RELEASE UPDATE INDEX
VII. RELEASE UPDATE CONTENT
Conventions
Current Release Update
NB_JAV_6.5.3
Release Update History
NB_JAV_6.5.2
NB_JAV_6.5.1
============================================
I. NEW FEATURES AND PLATFORM PROLIFERATIONS
============================================
New features, enhancements, and platform proliferations have been made to
NetBackup 6.5.3. For a complete list of the additions and enhancements, refer
to the New Features and Platform Proliferations section in the NB_6.5.3 UNIX
server online Readme.
=================
II. KNOWN ISSUES
=================
This section contains known issues with this Release Update that have not
yet been fixed in NetBackup. These issues will likely be fixed in future
Release Updates for this version of NetBackup.
+ Currently, there are no known issues with this Release Update.
==========================
III. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
==========================
1) Download NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar into the /tmp directory.
where <6 digit number> is an internal tracking identifier
2) Extract NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar
/bin/tar -xvf NB_JAV_6.5.3_<6 digit number>.tar
This will create the files:
NB_update.install
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.README
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.postinstall
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.postuninstall
VrtsNB_JAV_6.5.3.tar.Z
=============================
IV. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
=============================
** The content of this online Readme supersedes the information in the Readme
contained in the download. **
NOTE: Click on the "Download Now" link, near the bottom of this document
prior to running the following installation procedure for this Release Update.
1) Close the NetBackup user interfaces.
- Make sure the NetBackup server has no active jobs running (for example,
backups, restores, or duplications).
- If a database agent is being used, such as Oracle, ensure that the database
services are stopped.
For LOCAL installs:
As root ONLY on Solaris, HP-UX, HP-UX-IA64, Linux, Alpha or RS6000
NetBackup Master/Media/Client machine:
2) Install the Release Update binaries.
cd /tmp
/bin/sh NB_update.install
Note: The subject matter on the second line of this README with
the keyword "Deleted" causes NB_update.install
to delete a file if it exists. It is used exclusively by the
NB_update.install script for install purposes
only and requires no actions from the user.
For REMOTE installs:
As root on all NetBackup Master/Media Servers:
2) Install the Release Update binaries.
cd /tmp
/bin/sh NB_update.install
3) Update any NetBackup clients that use the NetBackup Java applications.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients
=========================
V. UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
=========================
Note: This will ONLY uninstall the Release Update from your local machine.
As root:
1) Close the NetBackup user interfaces.
Make sure the NetBackup server has no active jobs running (for
example, backups, restores, or duplications).
If a database agent is being used, such as Oracle,
ensure that the database services are stopped.
2) Change directory to the patch save directory.
Substitute the Release Update name for ${PACK} in the following command:
cd /usr/openv/pack/${PACK}/save
3) Run the un-install script:
./NB_update.uninstall
4) Verify that the Release Update uninstalled successfully by checking
/usr/openv/pack/pack.history.
5) If update_clients was run after the Release Update was originally
INSTALLED, and the Release Update is successfully UNINSTALLED, run:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/update_clients
6) If necessary, restart the NetBackup and Media Manager daemons:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.start_all
The Release Update install logs can be found in /usr/openv/pack/pack.history
once the installation is complete.
================================
VI. CURRENT RELEASE UPDATE INDEX
================================
This section contains a master index for all UNIX packages of Etracks that
have been fixed in this release, sorted according to the containers that
they comprise.
NB_6.5.3
--------
1275559 1302929 1302749 1317013 1317008 1317006 1317202 1317047 1276489 1318091
1289921 1322984 1364407 1364422 1322803 1364661 1373019 1383374 1382658 1383586
1383584 1184889 1276613 1382632 1383839 1383438 1383440 1383434 1383442 1383733
1383750 1383540 1384029 1375483 1383736 1383527 1383523 1384879 1385083 1385111
1386294 1383757 1384675 1383511 1385061 1382599 1376805 1383782 1383502 1383497
1383499 1384270 1386057 1386060 1383811 1383808 1382683 1384822 1386064 1386062
1386073 1383727 1383766 1386069 1384960 1386075 1386077 1384019 1386065 1386070
1387046 1383743 1384952 1387039 1383643 1384946 1384943 1388149 1384948 1383744
1386199 1384909 1389088 1374330 1388180 1383756 1388192 1382684 1383404 1390335
1383742 1383761 1391168 1382623 1391109 1383763 1394025 1383630 1392132 1388236
1384020 1395057 1384919 1383792 1383772 1393919 1384032 1384023 1384966 1395393
1383506 1396153 1391110 1397984 1399794 1393810 1393798 1397604 1398627 1388000
1387827 1393793 1396248 1402394 1396112 1395233 1402922 1403920 1405290 1402967
1320530 1398698 1396083 1392668 1409131 1409154 1411251 1411776 1410874 1412331
1408807 1412417 1413338 1411302 1413269 1410786 1413572 1385085 1414212 1412557
1415612 1413649 1401482 1413567 1415683 1414541 1416768 1421025 1425093 1424266
1423453 1425900 1425285 1428096 1423583 1426958 1427064 1429629 1430825 1428794
1431220 1428632 1432786 1431217 1431957 1432152 1432733 1431905 1436492 1436738
1439637
NB_BBS_6.5.3
------------
1386047 1383479
NB_BMR_6.5.3
------------
1289330 1385881
NB_CLT_6.5.3
------------
1275559 1302929 1302749 1317013 1317008 1317006 1317202 1317047 1276489 1318091
1289921 1322984 1364407 1364422 1322803 1364661 1373019 1383374 1382658 1383586
1383584 1184889 1276613 1382632 1383839 1383438 1383440 1383434 1383442 1383733
1383750 1383540 1384029 1375483 1383736 1382523 1383527 1383523 1384879 1385083
1385111 1386294 1383757 1384675 1383511 1385061 1382599 1384892 1376805 1383782
1383502 1383497 1383499 1384270 1386057 1386060 1383811 1383808 1382683 1384822
1386064 1386062 1386073 1383727 1383766 1386069 1384960 1386075 1386077 1384019
1386065 1386070 1387046 1383743 1384952 1387039 1383643 1384946 1384943 1388149
1384948 1383744 1386199 1384909 1389088 1374330 1388180 1383756 1388192 1382684
1383404 1387984 1390335 1383742 1383761 1391168 1382623 1391109 1383763 1394025
1383630 1392132 1388236 1384020 1395057 1384919 1383792 1383772 1393919 1384032
1384023 1384966 1395393 1383506 1396153 1391110 1397984 1399794 1393810 1393798
1397604 1398627 1388000 1387827 1393793 1396248 1402394 1396112 1395233 1402922
1403920 1405290 1402967 1320530 1398698 1396083 1392668 1409131 1409154 1411251
1411776 1410874 1412331 1408807 1412417 1413338 1411302 1413269 1410786 1413572
1385085 1414212 1412557 1415612 1413649 1401482 1413567 1415683 1414541 1416768
1421025 1425093 1424266 1423453 1425900 1425285 1428096 1423583 1426958 1427064
1429629 1430825 1428794 1431220 1428632 1432786 1431217 1431957 1432152 1432733
1431905 1436492 1436738 1439637
NB_DB2_6.5.3
------------
1388132
NB_DMP_6.5.3
------------
1384031
NB_INX_6.5.3
------------
1404905 1416672
NB_JAV_6.5.3
------------
1316222 1316255 1316257 1383469 1386728 1388080 1393518 1400256
NB_LOT_6.5.3
------------
1318437
NB_LUA_6.5.3
------------
1380529
NB_NOM_6.5.3
------------
1383447 1384380 1390067 1391157 1391161 1395092 1399345 1409923 1409925 1423226
NB_SAP_6.5.3
------------
1227447 1386537 1227458 1411527
NB_SMU_6.5.3
------------
1387861 1387867
NB_SNC_6.5.3
------------
1383582 1383429 1382596 1383498 1384025 1394039 1395089 1383512 1401373 1398467
1410597
NB_VLT_6.5.3
------------
1383258 1385764 1386756 1385614 1386760 1386763 1386750 1396286 1402907 1404850
===========================
VII. RELEASE UPDATE CONTENT
===========================
This section contains the Release Update conventions, content, and historical
content that is applicable to the release.
Conventions:
------------
The following list describes the conventions used in the subsections that
following this section. Each item listed in the Current Release Update
subsection describes a feature, enhancement, or issue fixed with this
Release Update.
Description
Describes a particular problem contained in this release update.
** Description **
Describes a problem that can lead to potential data loss. Please
read these problem descriptions carefully.
Workaround
Any available workarounds to a problem are also listed. Workarounds can be
used INSTEAD of applying the patch, however, Symantec strongly recommends
the "best practice" of being at the latest available patch level.
Additional Notes
Any additional information regarding a problem is included.
Current Release Update
----------------------
Each item listed in this section describes a feature, enhancement, or change
that comprises this Release Update. Please read this section thoroughly to
understand the contents of this update.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316222
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1300428
Titan cases: 320-117-507
Description:
The Activity Monitor jobs data was displayed wrong when using a
NetBackup 6.5.2 administration console with a NetBackup 6.5.1 master server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316255
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1292734
Titan cases: 220-320-996
Description:
A change was made that ensures the NetBackup_Java Administration Console
can display the Activity Monitor when administering a NetBackup 6.5.1
master server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1316257
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1297807
Titan cases: 220-326-939
Description:
A change has been added that ensures the NetBackup-Java Administration
Console can be used to administer (modify or deactivate policies) on
back-level, NetBackup master servers.
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Etrack Incident = ET1383469
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1369746
Titan cases: 311-971-197
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would fail to connect to the
NetBackup Service Layer (NBSL) service using PBX if the primary hostname
returned by PBX was not resolvable from NetBackup-Java Administration
Console host.
Workaround:
If you encounter this issue, use the FIREWALL_IN option in the nbj.conf
file on NetBackup-Java Administration Console host.
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Etrack Incident = ET1386728
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1363804
Titan cases: 291-026-369
Description:
An error would occur if you select a directory to restore and the name
of the directory contained an & (ampersand) character in it. You would
receive an Invalid Character error.
Backups of directories that have an & (ampersand) character in the name
would perform okay. However, when these directories are selected in
either the NetBackup-Java Administration Console or the Windows
Administration Console, an error would still occur.
In addition, directories that have an & (ampersand) character in the
name can be restored in full, but you are unable to enter the directories
to select individual sub-directories or files within.
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Etrack Incident = ET1388080
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1273691
Titan cases: 320-103-515
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Vault - "Robotic Volume
Group" drop-down would take between 15 and 30 minutes to populate.
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Etrack Incident = ET1393518
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would crash after enabling NBAC
on a Linux RedHat IA64 machine.
Workaround:
To work around this issue, run the following commands:
export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/VRTSat/lib/ia64/libstdc++.so.5
./jnbSA
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Etrack Incident = ET1400256
Description:
The "View FT Connections" would not display under Media-Devices when a
backup was in progress.
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Release Update History
----------------------
This section contains an accumulative list of all Release Update information
contained in previous releases.
============
NB_JAV_6.5.2
============
Etrack Incident = ET1166299
Description:
A new feature has been added that enables AdvancedDisk disk pools to be
configured for multiple StorageServers.
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Etrack Incident = ET1168612
Description:
You can now disable Reverse Hostname Lookup using the new "Network
Settings" Node in Host Properties using NetBackup Administration Console.
This Node is available for Master, Media, and Client Host Properties for
hosts with NetBackup version 6.5.2 and above.
The three settings for the "Reverse Hostname Lookup" are ALLOWED,
RESTRICTED, and PROHIBITED with ALLOWED as the default setting.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1127780
Description:
When using SnapShot wizard, the Full schedule backup window was created
incorrectly.
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Etrack Incident = ET1173718
Titan cases: 320063430
Description:
The restore of an AIX, Bare Metal Restore client would fail if the
"Intrapolicy" property was changed to "inner edge" or "inner middle" using
the change AIX Logical volume properties dialog in the NetBackup-Java
Administration Console.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1124806
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would incorrectly report license
key expiration for permanent license keys. In addition, an extra record
was shown in license keys exported file.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1180766
Description:
A warning note has been added on the Volume Selection page of Disk Pool
wizard.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1145815
Description:
A change has been made to the Client Host Properties page so that it
displays "SharePoint" in Client Properties list instead of "SharePoint
2003" because multiple versions of SharePoint are supported.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1166891
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console showed an offline catalog backup
as "not scheduled to run" in the wizard even though it was scheduled to run.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1076281
Description:
The default size of controls for "IP address" shown in the Host Properties
are not the proper size.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1045745
Description:
The size of the labels are inconsistent with table headers in Disk Pool
Configuration wizard.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1066828
Description:
While changing the client configuration for a Bare Metal Restore client,
the user interface would not allow you to map a Linux Volume Group when
free space on selected disks was less that the used space on the Volume
Group. This would occur even when the option to automatically map volumes
was not selected.
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Etrack Incident = ET1189501
Description:
If Vault was not installed but licensed, then the sub-node, Vault reports
that are under the Reports node would not appear in the NetBackup-Java
Administration Console on UNIX or the NetBackup Administration Console for
Windows.
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Etrack Incident = ET1115059
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1101477
Titan cases: 240-570-206
Description:
When running multiple versions of the NetBackup-Java Administration Console
on a Windows platform, the preferences of a previously opened Java Console
get overwritten by a new console if the new console is not the same version.
Additional Notes:
On non-Windows platforms, execute the following before starting the
Administration Console, to migrate the existing settings to the new
version-specific location. Failure to do so causes you to lose existing
settings.
migrate_Preferences.sh
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Etrack Incident = ET1084397
Description:
The Disk Pool wizard was disabled while performing a change server
operation; changing from a Master Server to a Media Server on Windows.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1132128
Description:
Added configuration options for the DISK_CLIENT and NDMP_CLIENT settings
via the Host Properties.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1177115
Description:
While performing a Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) for a Bare Metal Restore
Client, a new option has been added in the following mapping wizards:
- HP volume group - "Simplify volume group" option
- AIX volume group - "Simplify volume group" option
- VxVM disk group for AIX, HP, and Solaris - "Simplify disk group" option
- SVM disk set - "Simplify disk set" option
This option is enabled when you choose the option to automatically map
all volumes in the above wizard. When selected, this option allows you to
break mirror volumes in one step from the user interface.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1189940
Description:
In the Restore Dialog under the SharePoint tab, a new option has been added
to enable a user to decide to overwrite existing documents or do not restore
existing documents while performing a SharePoint granular restore.
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Etrack Incident = ET1189972
Description:
In the Activity Monitor user interface, it is common for jobs to display
as "queued". However, it is not clear to a user as to why the job is
in a waiting state. In situations where a user may have hundreds of queued
jobs, it would be beneficial to have a way to see what resources are in
contention.
An enhancment has been made to the NetBackup Administration Console's
Activity Monitor job display to include a new column that shows the reason
why a job is queued and in a waiting state. In addition, some of the
information that is displayed in the new column is available by using the
job details.
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Etrack Incident = ET1180994
Description:
Added the ability for a user to set the "Preserve multiplexing" flag just
as they could with any other duplication feature in NetBackup.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1195877
Description:
Changes have been added to this release to improve the consistency and
usability of the Job Priority Scheme.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1195901
Description:
Improvements have been made to the Consistency and Usability of the Job
Priority Scheme (for example, changes have been made for the Tape Contents
Report).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1183882
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, descriptive messages were
added to the radio buttons of the Restore option, on the Restore dialog.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1195900
Description:
Improvements have been made for the Consistency and Usability of Job
Priority Scheme that include the addition of a new node to in the Master
Server Host Properties.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1199217
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration console, Disk Pools can now be created
using a period "." as a character in the name.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1178657
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration console, a check box has been added
to control the behavior of the port number selection while creating a new
virtual machine server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1196449
Description:
A change has been made that ensures a user will see all of the options
under the Credential tab after the user has changed the server from a
master to a media on the NetBackup Administration console. Before this
change, a user would not have seen the Disk Array Hosts, VM Hosts, or Open
Storage Servers options after making the change to a Windows media server.
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Etrack Incident = ET1198943
Description:
While creating a snapshot backup policy, a feature has been added to the
NetBackup Administration Console to disable the "snapshot only" option
when the backup type that is selected is cumulative and differential
incremental.
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Etrack Incident = ET1201553
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1199766
Titan cases: 230-470-921
Description:
The Change Schedule panel in the NetBackup-Java Administration Console did
not display or retain the setting for the override policy volume pool.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1199636
Description:
A change has been made to gray-out the Storage Unit field when Snapshot
is selected in the user interface.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1196047
Description:
A fix has been made to ensure that there is no more than one snapshot
destination in a lifecycle policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1111754
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, comments have been added about
using fully qualified names, while entering names for VMWare clients.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1202596
Description:
On the NetBackup Administration Console, the snapshot as destination option
is disabled if the feature is not licensed, while creating a storage
lifecycle policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1212368
Description:
On NetBackup-Java Administration Console, Advanced Disk Pool could be
created after changing the server to 6.5.1 media.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1196046
Description:
Warning messages on NetBackup-Java Administration Console were corrected
while adding a schedule for a policy, with a storage lifecyle policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1219958
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the storage unit option would
become enabled when the destination was something other than a Snapshot
while creating a new storage lifecycle policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1209200
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the virtual machine clients
display the timestamp while browsing for virtual machines.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1214798
Description:
There were inconsistencies between the Java and Windows version of the
NetBackup Administration Console regarding the implementation of the,
"Improve Consistency and Usability of Job Priority Scheme".
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1214237
Description:
The default value in the Job Priority field that is displayed on the policy
tab was not correct.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1221478
Description:
The Oracle restore user interface was not appearing in BAR user interface.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1223376
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1222651
Titan cases: 220-220-681 290-939-111
Description:
A spinning V would not appear in NetBackup-Java Administration Console >
Host Properties > Clients when fetching data. This gave the impression that
no work was being done.
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Etrack Incident = ET1153970
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1129229
Titan cases: 240-615-220
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console would hanged while attempting to
apply an advanced filter on a search of images.
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Etrack Incident = ET1206951
Description:
On the NetBackup Administration Console, a storage unit could be modified
from staging to nonstaging and vice versa while modifying a storage unit.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1118686
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, a Full backup was checked
"No" as the default option while selecting storage unit backup types for
a snapshot backup policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1223528
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console could not locate the AT client
libraries on Linux IA64 platforms.
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Etrack Incident = ET1225696
Description:
Overridden job priority for duplication, verify, import, and Media Contents
from the "Host Properties" was not reflected on the Catalog search images
screen and the Tape Contents report.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1225811
Description:
Job Priority column on the Activity Monitor implemented as part of this
release should be hidden if administering a NetBackup 6.5 master server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1228952
Description:
A change has been made to enable the "Restore to RSG" option when it is
a snapshot image.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1181044
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1175871
Titan cases: 290-898-929
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, UNIX OS commands were being
restricted.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etrack Incident = ET1232612
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, cluster hosts could be added
to the server group.
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Etrack Incident = ET1190114
Description:
NetBackup-Java Administration Console (UNIX) and the NetBackup
Administration Console for Windows would take an unacceptable time to open
the Vault node when Vault is licensed but not installed.
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Etrack Incident = ET1236368
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Mailbox or Public folders
could be opened while restoring a Microsoft Exchange type of backup.
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Etrack Incident = ET1155281
Description:
A change has been made to ensure that EMC Power Path (PP) disks are not
allowed to be added to volume groups.
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Etrack Incident = ET1179943
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1131280
Titan cases: 220-107-289
Description:
The ForceReset setting for the Device Monitor will be externalized in
nbj.conf file. If this property does not exist or its value is set to 1,
the user preferences will be set to the default RefreshRate of 600 sec.
If the ForceReset settings value is 0, the the refresh rate will be set to
the user's set preferences.
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Etrack Incident = ET1210565
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1208274
Titan cases: 320-088-544
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, devices could be viewed
through the device management tab.
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Etrack Incident = ET1156185
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the confirmation dialog was
not shown for alternate clients selected while creating a new snapshot
backup policy.
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Etrack Incident = ET1186141
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console now has the ability to control
an identity restore and strip all network information while restoring
VMware.
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Etrack Incident = ET1135472
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1018561
Titan cases: 290-695-012
Description:
In NetBackup-Java Administration Console, an addition was made to support
FIREWALL_IN, REQUIRED_INTERFACE and REQUIRED_NETWORK.
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Etrack Incident = ET1243499
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, catalog backups could be
created using the Catalog Backup wizard.
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Etrack Incident = ET1228986
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the "NetBackup key management
service" daemon was shown in the daemon tab of Activity Monitor.
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Etrack Incident = ET1249027
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Vault node could not be
expanded to see the vault robots that were attached.
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Etrack Incident = ET1235952
Associated Primary Etrack = ET1186044
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, the Bare Metal Restore
Change Configuration dialog would fail in some cases while changing the
host entries.
Additional Notes:
You must apply the NB_BMR patch container along with the Java patch
container for this fix to work correctly.
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Etrack Incident = ET1251838
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, a user can create Live
Update policies and run them.
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Etrack Incident = ET1254388
Description:
On the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, some descriptions have been
improved and added for Snapshot Client options while creating a new Snapshot
Client policy.
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NB_JAV_6.5.1
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Etrack Incident = ET1105102
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows
becomes unresponsive while activating and deactivating more
than 50 policies.
Workaround:
If there are a large number of policies to be activated (or
deactivated), then activate (or deactivate) each policy one-by-one
or in smaller groups.
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Etrack Incident = ET1065536
Description:
In the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, for the host
properties of the master server, the image catalog cleanup
interval range was incorrect.
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Etrack Incident = ET1055292
Description:
If the scan progress failed while scanning for devices from the
Device configuration wizard, the image shown to indicate the
failure was also incorrect.
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Etrack Incident = ET1105104
Description:
The NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows
becomes unresponsive while deleting more than 50 policies.
Workaround:
If there are large number of policies to be deleted, then delete
each policy one-by-one or in smaller groups (less than 50).
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Etrack Incident = ET1113359
Description:
Filling a Linux LVM1 volume group with DDR can cause the
restoration to fail.
Workaround:
When mapping volumes to an LVM1 (not LVM2) volume group for a Linux
client, leave some free space in the volume group that is equivalent
to the size of one physical extent.
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Etrack Incident = ET1114102
Description:
While doing a Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) with Bare Metal
Restore (BMR), mapping a Linux Volume Group with the option "Create
the physical volume on a partition on the remaining free space"
caused the map operation to fail.
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Etrack Incident = ET1059702
Description:
Busy animations would be hidden when a switch was made from
volume pool (or volume group ) to Media node, while the media
information is still being fetched.
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Etrack Incident = ET1120612
Description:
While activating or deactivating multiple policies from the
NetBackup-Java Administrator Console, only a few of the policies
would be activated or deactivated.
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Etrack Incident = ET1137009
Description:
The Restore Marked Files dialog has the following two options
at the top:
- Restore the entire virtual machine
- Restore only virtual machine data files
The second option has been reworded to read "Restore all virtual
machine files to the staging machine".
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Etrack Incident = ET1137032
Description:
The user interface currently allows a user to enter a credential
for a VMWare converter. This credential is not needed by VMWare
and should no longer be included.
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Etrack Incident = ET1140441
Description:
If there are more than 500 virtual machines, it takes a long time
on the user interface to show the list on the virtual machine
browse dialog. Caching of the virtual machine list and fetching the
virtual machine list on demand is now supported.
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Etrack Incident = ET1147300
Description:
BMR did not properly support the backup and restoration of Solaris
clients that had EMC Powerpath disks.
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Etrack Incident = ET1158537
Description:
A Null Pointer exception would occur if a user performed any drive
cleaning operation while drive information was being retrieved.
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Etrack Incident = ET1160278
Description:
While editing the Fragment size field from Storage Unit dialog in
NetBackup-Java Administration Console on UNIX and Windows, the correct
value did not get saved under certain circumstances.
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