Adding unix clients to netbackup seems very simple but you will be frustrated when you are unable to add clients and no error is prompted.

Solution to resolve this is to create a job first. When you create a job using a wizard and asked for the client server name, you can either browse or key in client server name (if client name is not in the network, keyin as per host file on your system – drivers/etc/hosts. It should be the same as hosts).

Then go to host properties-> clients on veritas. Client name should be appeared there. Try to connect and see if there is any error. If there is any erorr such as error code 46 relating to access authenticated problem, you have to check host name in your client system. In solaris, default installation path of veritas is

/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf

view bp.conf and check the server name. It should be the same name as you placed under etc/hosts.

This is very simple but i have wasted few hours trying to figure out why veritas can’t add clients.

a waste of your time to figure out what actually happened.