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CA Brightstor Arcserve Backup - Novell OES Agent |
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
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Due to lack of documentation on how to resolve CA OES agent issue, I come accross with this mini how to solve an OES agent issue for CA Backup on one of my customer SLES 9 SP4 + OES SP2 server. - Server : SLES 9 SP4 + OES SP2
- CA Backup : CA Arcserve Backup 11.5 SP1
- Problem : Unable to browse OES / NSS volume or unable to see novell icon
- CA Agent : oesagentd
- Pre-requisite : CA cd or iso image
SIte note : I did few time install & uninstall the agent via .rpm packages and successfully see the novell icon from Arcserve Backup server running on another SLES 9 server. Unfortunately, when I want to browse the volume, it will keep asking you for login username & password for OES instace. Using correct "root" or "fully qualify edirectory" login account doesn't let you browse the volume. As per CA Administrator manual, restart novell-smdrd service may solve the problem but for my case, it won't work either. CA documentation or Community forum doesn't help me much on how to solve the problem.
INSTALLATION As I told ealier, please avoid the installation via single .rpm packages or you may have authentication problem later when you want to browse the volume. As for my case, I use "dd" to make and .iso image from CA cd's and make OES agent installation via this .iso. - mount point for the cdrom $make /mnt/cdrom
- mount the image with $mount -t iso9660 -o rw,loop=/dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom
- change to /mnt/cdrom/oes directory with $cd /mnt/cdrom/oes
- Uninstall any previous installation of CA agent. $./uninstall
- Install new agent with $./install
- For the license, I choosed ALP since it's provided with the CD or you may choose OEM or trial 29 characters keys.
- Choose the component and for me I choosed 2,10
- State your BABcmagt, BABoesagent or BABuagent directory (default /opt/CA)
- Proceed the remaining process until finished and your agent should running automatically when you finished with the installation.
- check your agent with $caagent status
- check enable component $caagent list all
- When all seem okay, go to CA Arcserve Backup serve -> Database Manager -> Add new client server & start to backup your server manually first!
Just for reminder, you may need few CA patch such QO99714 & QO99756 to enable CA to backup & restore novell file trustee, permission and etc. p/s : If you have any problem with the installation, feel free to contact me and I feel very glad to help you. ariyossss athlon_crazy 11012009 14:09PM |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 January 2009 )
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