Did you set your drives for persistent bindings?

Also, if they are hanging, did you look in Task Manager to see if any of
the Veritas processes are still running? (usually start with bp...); you
might have to use the kill commmand and kill by PID#.

Hope this helps a bit...
"Joe Correia" wrote:
>
>My environments is:
>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
library
>via fiber optic cable.
>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
Windows
>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the Windows
>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>rebooting?
>
>regards,
>JOE

After stopping the 4 services on the affected Media Server I see bptm.exe,
ltid.exe, oprd.exe. I can't stop any of these services...I tired using PSKill
but I keep getting access denied.
What do you mean by the "Kill" command?
I'm checking into the persistent bindings.


"Laurie" wrote:
>
>Did you set your drives for persistent bindings?
>
>Also, if they are hanging, did you look in Task Manager to see if any of
>the Veritas processes are still running? (usually start with bp...); you
>might have to use the kill commmand and kill by PID#.
>
>Hope this helps a bit...
>"Joe Correia" wrote:
>>
>>My environments is:
>>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
>library
>>via fiber optic cable.
>>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
>Windows
>>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the
Windows
>>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>>rebooting?
>>
>>regards,
>>JOE
>

The clue here is that the Windows Device manager is also hung after
this happens. Make sure that HBA and tape drive drivers are up to
date. Make sure you are using persistent binding. Normally when
Windows loses connection to a device it does not hang device manager.
There may be something else wrong here.

On 3 Mar 2005 11:25:24 -0500, "Joe Correia"
wrote:

>
>My environments is:
>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape library
>via fiber optic cable.
>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs Windows
>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the Windows
>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>rebooting?
>
>regards,
>JOE

Jeff - Where do I confirm if I have "persistent bindings" configured?

JOE

Jeff Redington wrote:
>The clue here is that the Windows Device manager is also hung after
>this happens. Make sure that HBA and tape drive drivers are up to
>date. Make sure you are using persistent binding. Normally when
>Windows loses connection to a device it does not hang device manager.
>There may be something else wrong here.
>
>On 3 Mar 2005 11:25:24 -0500, "Joe Correia"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>My environments is:
>>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
library
>>via fiber optic cable.
>>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
Windows
>>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the
Windows
>>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>>rebooting?
>>
>>regards,
>>JOE
>

That is usually set in the HBA settings. Look at those first. They may
also be called Static mappings.

Jeff Redington

On 8 Mar 2005 11:18:17 -0500, "Joseph Correia"
wrote:

>
>Jeff - Where do I confirm if I have "persistent bindings" configured?
>
>JOE
>
>Jeff Redington wrote:
>>The clue here is that the Windows Device manager is also hung after
>>this happens. Make sure that HBA and tape drive drivers are up to
>>date. Make sure you are using persistent binding. Normally when
>>Windows loses connection to a device it does not hang device manager.
>>There may be something else wrong here.
>>
>>On 3 Mar 2005 11:25:24 -0500, "Joe Correia"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>My environments is:
>>>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>>>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
>library
>>>via fiber optic cable.
>>>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>>>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
>Windows
>>>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>>>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the
>Windows
>>>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>>>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>>>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>>>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>>>rebooting?
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>JOE
>>

apparently these drives are not visible to ur hosts and it gets hang. review
ur brocade zoning configuration. Hv u procured the sso option to use the
same drive from a shared library ? if not, all connectd hosts will try to
take the control of the drives and create such problem.


"Laurie" wrote:
>
>Did you set your drives for persistent bindings?
>
>Also, if they are hanging, did you look in Task Manager to see if any of
>the Veritas processes are still running? (usually start with bp...); you
>might have to use the kill commmand and kill by PID#.
>
>Hope this helps a bit...
>"Joe Correia" wrote:
>>
>>My environments is:
>>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
>library
>>via fiber optic cable.
>>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
>Windows
>>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the
Windows
>>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>>rebooting?
>>
>>regards,
>>JOE
>

"Joseph Correia" wrote:
>
>After stopping the 4 services on the affected Media Server I see bptm.exe,
>ltid.exe, oprd.exe. I can't stop any of these services...I tired using PSKill
>but I keep getting access denied.
>What do you mean by the "Kill" command?
>I'm checking into the persistent bindings.
>
>
>"Laurie" wrote:
>>
>>Did you set your drives for persistent bindings?
>>
>>Also, if they are hanging, did you look in Task Manager to see if any of
>>the Veritas processes are still running? (usually start with bp...); you
>>might have to use the kill commmand and kill by PID#.
>>
>>Hope this helps a bit...
>>"Joe Correia" wrote:
>>>
>>>My environments is:
>>>Netbackup 5.1 w/ SSO
>>>1 Master Media Server, 4 Media Servers, all connected to a Quantum tape
>>library
>>>via fiber optic cable.
>>>I've been having this problem with Media Servers losing their connection
>>>to the tape library which causes backup jobs to run endlessly and hangs
>>Windows
>>>Device Manager. After this occurs the affected server can no longer connect
>>>to the library unless I reboot the server. I can't seem to correct the
>Windows
>>>Device Manager problem without the reboot.
>>>I've stopped the 4 NB services running on the host but noticed there are
>>>still several NB executables running....but I can't kill the processes.
>>>Does anyone have any idea how I can regain control of the server without
>>>rebooting?
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>JOE
>>
>
I have a similar san configuration as yours-- a master and 4 medias, etc.
I have been doing this---
go to the nbu console and bring down all nbu services on all 5 servers.
then open a cmd window on each of the five servers and do:
tlist -t
this gives the process id's of all the oprd executables
then i use
taskkill /f /pid

after that is done on all 5 servers, i bring the services back up via the
nbu console gui.
after waiting a couple minutes or so for all master/media servers to sync
up, the nbu functions usually act right again.