Networker question

[siqbal75]

Hello everyone,

I am using Legoto Networker software in Sun machine and using L1000, with 2 DLT 7000 tape drive. The problem I am facing is that I can do a tape inventory on L1000 not problems, however, when I try to do an inventory on the software side using networker, it throws the following error message:'

SJI Failure [0x 29]: Not Ready, ACS 0x80 ASCQ 0x09

Any idea whats going on? I am suspecting a communication issue with the L1000 and networker(if thats so, how can I correct it), but I am may be wrong.

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[605]

Most likely you are just talking to the wrong device. If you switch the device sequence when you run jbconfig, this will solve your problem.

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks 605 its working now. However there is a new problem I ma facing now. When I try to do inventory from NW, it shows I/O error infront of DLT 7000. Here is exactly how it looks:

/dev/rmt/0cbn dlt7000 (unmounted) read open error, I/O error

and under the Pending windows it shows:

media alert: back up to pool 'default' waiting for 2 writeable backup tape(s)

Does it mean it is looking for some tapes? Should I manually move tape cartridges to both tape drives and see what happens?

Thanks for your input..

 

[605]

Unfortunately I can not monitor your system.

The read I/O error could simply be due to the fact that you label a new (virgin tape). As NW must try to look for a label first, and it can not do this successfully, you will receive this error. However, the label process should run successfully after this.

If you have not labeled any tape yet, or if you have labeled all tapes to a different pool and setup your pool configuration wrong, NW will wait media in the pool Default.

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks for your reply. And yes, you are NOT monitoring my system, and I sorry if I had annoyed you enough to come to this conclusion. I am not an expert in backups and neworker issues(I am only doing this job in place someone who is on vocation). I just needed some help as I wasn't able to get in touch with the senior admin.This is turning out to be a true nightmare..

The tape it is complaining about is already in the liberary with the correct label. It just have to pick it up and continue the writing process which obviously its not doing it..

Thanks for your help...

 

[605]

Hello, I did not want to complain. It would just pointed out that it would be better and of course faster if anybody how is trying to help would exactly see what is going on.

The label is one issue. However, a media could carry any label - it must not follow a certain template. This specially applies to bar code labels. NetWorker does not care about the volume name at all (as long as you do not want to assign a duplicate one).

The important question is whether you have labeled the media to the correct pool. This is the obvious problem.

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks for your reply. I think that I would have to investigate further.

Thanks again for your reply..

 

[new2me]

from my experience if something (Pools, Groups etc.) is not definded properly or complete, that client/s backup will ask for a Default tape during the backup.

try to verify your jbconfig and the system tape devices match...
- from the nwadmin use the GUI mount a tape.
- then from the command-prompt for same device enter
ie: mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status

If you get an error somehow your jukebox devices got mis-matched.

Trying to trouble shoot something you're not experience or familiar with it's hard! Good-luck.

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks for your reply. I would look into this, but right now we got some else to worry about. I am wondering if you could help me with that. I installed Solaris 10 OS, and for some reason, /usr/include path doesn't contains all the system liberaries that are required by the compiler to run, and we are getting compiling errors. Is there a way I can install it from the cdrom rather then re-wamping the whole OS.

Thanks..Please reply asap..This is an emergency..

 

[605]

Before you install you better read the compatibility guide. Right now, only NW 7.2 is supported on Solaris 10. And this is true for the client only.

In this case, the installation from a CD-ROM would not help you, especially not if a OS library is missing. BTW - what do you want to compile?

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks for your reply 605. I am sorry about the confusion, but this is another issue I am having on some other SUN solaris 10 machine.I installed the OS, and then Sun Studio10 compiler on it. I started getting compiling errors like missing liberaries and it won't compile anything correctly. Even with the successful install of studio10. Later I noticed that it was missing system liberaries under /usr/include by comparing to other machine running the same compiler and solaris 9 OS. I did installed the whole package, but I am not sure why it didn't put all the system liberaries under /usr/include folder.

My question is there a way I can manually put those under /usr/include folder rather then reinstalling the whole OS?

Thanks

 

[605]

Sorry, but i am not OS specialist enough to answer this question.

 

[siqbal75]

Thanks anyway..

 

[new2me]

sorry I can't answer your OS problem, try post your SUN problem on the SUN-Solaris forum. The people there is very knownledged and helpful.

 

[siqbal75]

I tried that already. No response for the past 24 hrs

Thanks anyway..I appreciate all your help. Hey does anyone know for a fact that Sun is actually charging money for all the patches for Solaris 10. You could get all the patches free of charge uptill solaris 9, but this is not the case Solaris 10. I went on to their site download make utility, but I was asked user name and password and be a part of one of their programs. Just a thought...

-Syed