Any error messages?

Is the NDMP service running?

Telnet to the NDMP port?

Look at this error message – the hostname said –cs0 …..

i am on the NDMP node itself and i have tried to telnet to a data move IP on port 10000.

#: telnet 10.154.80.11 10000

Trying 10.154.80.11...

Connected to 10.154.80.11.

Escape character is '^]'.

$QPuTTY

the DNS name of our VNX has the "-cs0" in the name

I am on the NDMP node and trying to run the "avsetupndmp" script which tries to establish the connection between the NDMP node and the VNX, but the connection still fails with the authentication failure error.

from the VNX,

[nasadmin@stlpvnx02-cs0 ~]$ telnet 10.154.80.41 10000

Trying 10.154.80.41...

telnet: connect to address 10.154.80.41: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Port 10000 , if you telnet to that port and get some funky characters ..NDMP is listening.

That looks better

looks good, it's listening. Now you just need to figure out why Avamar ( i assume you are trying to connect from Avamar) is having issues.

It looks like you are talking to the control station

NDMP runs on the data mover – you need to use the correct address of an interface on the data mover