Archive for February, 2009

Know your client ID’s

Posted: February 20, 2009 in EMC Networker

    I’ve come across a number of cases recently where a great deal of confusion has come about due to clients being renamed, clients being recreated after having been deleted, clients being copied from the NMC and people forgetting to blank out the client ID to allow Networker to recreate a unique “clientid”   [...]

Something that’s been lacking from the Networker Management Console pre 7.5 was the ability to create VCB clients via the configuration wizard, well 7.5 now has this built in ! Ive taken some screen shots and below ill take you through the configuration wizard to show just how easy it is. Step1. Open Networker management console, [...]

Celerra storage rescan error

Posted: February 18, 2009 in Celerra

Today I was finishing off some of the storage tasks I had set my self when I come across the same problem I noticed on the NS20 I installed a couple of months ago, only the error was different so I thought id write up a post in case anyone came across the same problem. Here’s the scenario…… [...]

I was thinking just the other day that I would do a post on browse and retention of savesets but Preston beat me to it with this great post here which covers changing the browse and retention times on savesets. Soooooooo I thought I would do something along the same lines but slightly different. Just the [...]

7.5 Update enabler required

Posted: February 14, 2009 in EMC Networker

If youve been running a Networker 7.3.x or Networker 7.4.x server and your looking to move to the latest 7.5 build, dont forget to request a 7.5 update enabler before the upgrade as youll find everything stops working without it. The actual enabler doesnt cost anything, I beleive its just EMC’s way of tracking the number [...]

This was just released a couple of days ago. Ive had a quick look through the release notes and I cant wait to give the P2V of a Linux machine ago. Whats new I hear you ask……… Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source Physical to virtual machine [...]

New Networker 7.5 features

Posted: February 11, 2009 in EMC Networker, VMware

Now I think ill update this post every couple of days with a quick outline of each new feature that Networker 7.5 has introduced, since my main area of interest is virtualization so ill start with the new “Virtualization” tab in the networker configuration menu. Virtualization   Configuration is easy, right click…Enable auto discovery…configure the identity [...]

The other night I was up writing a small script to query Networker for each client id and send an email displaying unique output only. Now the trouble here is I was missing all the commands I use regularly on my linux boxes e.g. cat, grep, ls, uniq, diff, sort (well windows has sort but does not [...]

IDATA Networker Training

Posted: February 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

IDATA Resolutions will be running a NetWorker 7.x training course in Auckland on the 22-23 of April. This is will be run by one of IDATA’s senior engineers, lab equipment will be provided.   The topics covered are;   Management Overview ¬    Why Backup ¬    Importance of recovery ¬    Role of backups in achieving high [...]

Monitoring client index size

Posted: February 6, 2009 in EMC Networker

Ok so over the last few years of being a Networker support engineer Ive seen my fair share of people ring up because they are unable to recover data from a machine they thought was being backed up but for some reason or another it was not. Something I personally think Networker should have built in [...]