DHCP enabled windows XP clients 2

[JyotiAhuja]

Hi all,
thanks a bunch for maintaing such an helpful forum..Many of my problems were solved even before asking.

One problem on which I couldn't find anything is the net backup configuration on DHCP enabled Windows XP clients. Clients in our network donot have static IPs ( for security concerns) and the netbackup server 4.5 s/w (installed on Solaris V440 server)requires the hostnames of clients. One way is to write a script which writes the most recent IP addresses of the clients to the /local/hosts file before every backup schedule. But how to integrate this script with the software..I have no clue..

Any help is highly appreciated..
Thanks a bunch
Jyoti

 

[comtec17]

NetBackup is heavily dependent on DNS. If you do not have DNS you will have to maintain the hosts files manually. If your clients IP addresses keep changing, I would create a script that will go out and get the new addresses and associate them with their names and add them to the host files daily via cron.

 

[yeweitong]

yes,you should setup the dns server in your environment.

 

[JyotiAhuja]

Actually i could solve the issue..
could be of help to someone else.

In the netbackup4.5 administration guide they have specified that to acheive this u need to create entries in the master server's database for the client name(which must be unique on the network)using the bpclient command. Moreover, in the dynamic NetBackup Windows client modify a couple of configuration options.
That's it!!

-Jyoti