Patch Name: PHSS_17303 Patch Description: s700_800 10.X OV OB3.00 patch - MA packet Creation Date: 99/02/22 Post Date: 99/03/11 Hardware Platforms - OS Releases: s700: 10.00 10.01 10.10 10.20 s800: 10.00 10.01 10.10 10.20 Products: OmniBackII A.03.00 Filesets: OMNIBACK-II.OMNI-DAS-P OMNIBACK-II.OMNI-ACS-P OMNIBACK-II.OMNI-HPUX-P OMNIBACK-II.OMNI-OTHUX-P Automatic Reboot?: No Status: General Superseded Critical: No Path Name: /hp-ux_patches/s700_800/10.X/PHSS_17303 Symptoms: PHSS_17303: Id = NSMbb21763 Aborted backup session with reconnect option doesn't write catalog to medium. The error message comes up: "Physical position of the last segment is not consistent ...". Id = HSLco11087 Ejecting more than one selected tape from EMASS/GRAU repository sometimes reports incorrect number of actually ejected tapes. Id = HSLco12763 OmniBack II doesn't report a dirty drive even the cleanme signal on device is pending. Id = NSMbb21763 Tape drives are left locked in a EMASS/GRAU Library. Id = NSMex01795 Media Agent on Sun Solaris hangs when trying to dismount the tape from Surestore 12000e device. Id = NSMex01843 Append on 3480 tape is not possible. Id = NSMex01898 Can not seek to requested position during restore. Id = NSMex01905 If system has only ACS or DAS packet installed, it cannot be configured as a 'device server', and no device can be configured for that system. Id = NSMex01958 Dirty drive detection on DLT7000 doesn't work. Id = NSMex01970 Install window doesn't show MA packet installed on a system after ACS or DAS agent has been installed on that system. Defect Description: PHSS_17303: Id = NSMbb21763 When user aborts a backup with reconnect option, the timing issue could result in the final catalog segment not being written to the medium. The next appended backup reports warning. This can occur on all platforms. Part of SSP30_06. Id = HSLco11087 This can happen only on EMASS/GRAU OmniBack II integration. The user selects more than one tape for ejecting and if EMASS/GRAU has problems ejecting one of them, OmniBack II will incorrectly update ejected tapes and reports that no tapes were ejected. Resolution: For loop used for ejecting tapes rather than calling eject function with the list of tapes as a parameter. Id = HSLco12763 NT Media Agent client doesn't detects dirty drive on tape devices even if dirty drive detection option is selected. Id = NSMbb21763 When using more than one drive in EMASS/GRAU Library, a backup session might successfully dismount the tapes but the drives are left locked. The next backup session will fail because the drives are still locked from previous one. Part of SSP30_32. Resolution: Algorithm changed, so that aci_init is called only once, or only if no tapes are mounted in drives. Id = NSMex01795 The HP SureStore 12000e connected on Sun Solaris can not dismount the tape from drive. The message on HP SureStore's LCD says SemiLoaded. Part of SSP30_05. Id = NSMex01843 Trying to position to the end-of-data, the device gives up too early. This causes the error: "Can not append to medium (Medium error.)" even if verify shows no errors and the backup completed successfully. This can occur on the following Media Agent platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, NT, NetWare. Part of SSP30_06. Id = NSMex01898 When doing an appended backup, the session completes successfully although the tape positions are not correctly updated in database. The problem can only be seen on Solaris MA system, configured with st.conf as proposed in 2.10 Release Notes, and if upgrade to 3.00 was done without changing st.conf the way it is proposed in 3.00 Release Notes. Part of SSP30_12. Resolution: See Special Installation Instructions. Id = NSMex01905 After installing only the ACS or DAS packet the client is not marked as a Media Agent client and no devices can be configured for this client. It also cannot be configured as a device server, and as a result 'single drive' licenses are taken for such system instead of 'multi drive' licenses. Id = NSMex01958 Dirty drive detection has been implemented for DLT4000 drives only, but not for DLT 7000. Resolution: DLT7000 added into internal table of DLT devices with dirty drive detection. Id = NSMex01970 Installation of ACS or DAS agent doesn't update the installation info file properly. It leaves the MA field empty, although the MA packet is actually a part of both packets. Later on this leads into administrator not being able to configure any devices for such system, or not being able to configure it as a 'device server'. Resolution: Installation procedure now updates the MA field in case ACS or DAS agent is installed on a system. SR: 1653288902 Patch Files: /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/siemens/r400/sinix/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/aix/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/aix-42/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/sun/sparc/solaris/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/ibm/rs6000/aix-42/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/ packet.Z /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z what(1) Output: /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/siemens/r400/sinix/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/aix/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/aix-42/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/sun/sparc/solaris/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/ibm/rs6000/aix-42/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/hp-ux/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/hp-ux-10/A.03.00/ packet.Z: None cksum(1) Output: 3585669558 1517739 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/ hp-ux/A.03.00/packet.Z 2190041783 1713233 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/hp/s800/ hp-ux-10/A.03.00/packet.Z 520774946 1694797 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/siemens/ r400/sinix/A.03.00/packet.Z 115991717 1205542 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/ aix/A.03.00/packet.Z 3303985315 1342526 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/ibm/rs6000/ aix-42/A.03.00/packet.Z 2593780865 1627245 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/ma/sun/sparc/ solaris/A.03.00/packet.Z 646169200 1561735 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/ hp-ux/A.03.00/packet.Z 1254667427 1741087 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/hp/s800/ hp-ux-10/A.03.00/packet.Z 40581482 1406225 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/das/ibm/rs6000/ aix-42/A.03.00/packet.Z 316079940 2014454 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/ hp-ux/A.03.00/packet.Z 1180625917 2209435 /opt/omni/databases/vendor/acs/hp/s800/ hp-ux-10/A.03.00/packet.Z Patch Conflicts: None Patch Dependencies: None Hardware Dependencies: None Other Dependencies: None Supersedes: None Equivalent Patches: PHSS_17304: s700: 11.00 s800: 11.00 Patch Package Size: 17680 KBytes Installation Instructions: Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard SupportLine User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms and conditions for precautions, scope of license, restrictions, and, limitation of liability and warranties, before installing this patch. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Back up your system before installing a patch. 2. Login as root. 3. Copy the patch to the /tmp directory. 4. Move to the /tmp directory and unshar the patch: cd /tmp sh PHSS_17303 5a. For a standalone system, run swinstall to install the patch: swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x match_target=true \ -s /tmp/PHSS_17303.depot 5b. For a homogeneous NFS Diskless cluster run swcluster on the server to install the patch on the server and the clients: swcluster -i -b This will invoke swcluster in the interactive mode and force all clients to be shut down. WARNING: All cluster clients must be shut down prior to the patch installation. Installing the patch while the clients are booted is unsupported and can lead to serious problems. The swcluster command will invoke an swinstall session in which you must specify: alternate root path - default is /export/shared_root/OS_700 source depot path - /tmp/PHSS_17303.depot To complete the installation, select the patch by choosing "Actions -> Match What Target Has" and then "Actions -> Install" from the Menubar. 5c. For a heterogeneous NFS Diskless cluster: - run swinstall on the server as in step 5a to install the patch on the cluster server. - run swcluster on the server as in step 5b to install the patch on the cluster clients. By default swinstall will archive the original software in /var/adm/sw/patch/PHSS_17303. If you do not wish to retain a copy of the original software, you can create an empty file named /var/adm/sw/patch/PATCH_NOSAVE. Warning: If this file exists when a patch is installed, the patch cannot be deinstalled. Please be careful when using this feature. It is recommended that you move the PHSS_17303.text file to /var/adm/sw/patch for future reference. To put this patch on a magnetic tape and install from the tape drive, use the command: dd if=/tmp/PHSS_17303.depot of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2k Special Installation Instructions: PHSS_17303: NOTE! Patch has to be installed on all Installation server hosts. * The Media Agent package needs to be redistributed to the appropriate systems, where the Media Agent Clients are installed, from within the "Cell Administration - Install" window of the OmniBackII graphical user interface before the patch modifications take effect. NOTE! Make sure that no backup or restore or media management session is running while you distribute the package to the MA clients. From patch PHSS_17303/PHSS_17304 on, OmniBackII supports EMASS/GRAU Integration on IBM AIX 4.2. Special notes for problem with Id NSMex01898: The fix in this patch enables restoring corrupted tapes. When the restore fails with "Can not seek to requested position ...", add the option OB2NOSEEK=1 into the file /usr/omni/.omnirc on Sun Solaris MA client and restart restore. After restore has been done, clear the entry from .omnirc.To avoid further producing of corrupted tapes, the customer must also change the configuration in the file /kernel/drv/st.conf according to the explanations given in the OBII 3.0 Installation and Licensing Guide, Chapter 2, Section 'Installing the Solaris Client System'. Patch includes the following Site Specific Patches: - SSP30_05 - SSP30_06 - SSP30_12 - SSP30_32