OmniBack on RedHat 8

[Mario Grigioni]

I'm trying to Install the OmniBack II A.03.10 client on my RedHat 8, and i'm getting some trouble while trying to import the new client on my cell manager (Windowns 2000). The error is this "The host information cannot be added/updated in the cell manager configuration file.". I already made the test "telnet "server" 5555" and it's OK.

[Mark Grant]

You can attempt to add the client to the cell manager manually by editing the cell configuration file. I don't know where this file actually is on windows but looking through the answers in the OB/DP forum from the extraordinary duo Kurt & Leif, it appears that it might be here

\usr\omni\config\cell

[Nobody's Hero · Accepted solution]

I installed a linux DP5 client on my systems after some resources on this forum helped me.Here is a quote from one of my previos posts about the same problem.

Install the agent manually on the linux client:

1. Login to the Linux client

2. Create a temporary directory on the Linux client:

mkdir -p /tmp/omni_tmp

3. Transfer the Core and Disk Agent packages from the cell server to the Linux client using ftp:

ftp
ftp>bin
ftp>get /opt/omni/databases/vendor/omnicf/gpl/i386/linux/packet.Z
/tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z
ftp>get /opt/omni/databases/vendor/da/gpl/i386/linux/packet.Z
/tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z.da
ftp>get /opt/omni/databases/utils/gpl/linux/utils.tar
/tmp/omni_tmp/utils.tar
ftp>bye

4. Extract the install utilities:

tar xvf /tmp/omni_tmp/utils.tar

5. Install the Core package of OmniBack:

omni_rinst.sh /tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z Core A.03.50 gpl/i386/linux /usr/omni

6. Move the Disk Agent package to the original name:

mv /tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z.da /tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z

7. Install the Disk Agent package of OmniBack:

omni_rinst.sh /tmp/omni_tmp/packet.Z DiskAgent A.03.50 gpl/i386/linux /usr/omni

Then once I did this, I had to add the client through the xomni gui and all was well. Hope this helps, good luck.

RPM

[Steven E. Protter]

Also:

make sure iptables or ipchains isn't blocking port 5555 outbound. Two way communication is required for Omniback to work right.

service ipchains stop
or
service iptables stop

I'm also curious because I don't think the version of omniback you are using was certified on this version of Linux. Perhaps I'm wrong, but Data Protector 5.x(omniback replacement) is certified, at least on Red Hat 7.x

SEP

[Mark Grant]

SEP,

You are right, it's not certified. However, it does actually work.

Regards