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November 8th, 2007 11:00

NMC failed to Launch-GST service failures_NMC Redundency

Hello,
Twice in a week , GST service failed on NMC on the master server, only apparent intervention at the time of failure was restarting a failed group via nmc.
even after i restarted the GST service , NMC failed to launch ( but was fine in the morning-without any further interventions), i have a case open with emc.Its quite a inconvenience as OPS staff watch the backups all night on alerts and i get woken up everytime it hiccups .....
Networker 7.3.3 & NMC 3.1 on Windows
Questions:
What alternative do i have to monitor networker activities such as backup, mounts , restarts etc when the console is down ?
I have attempted to create a separate instance of NMC on on other pc\server but failed to connect to the master server , would NMC 3.4 ( with 7.4) be able to connect to NMC 3.1 ( older Netoworker versions < 7.4).
Is a networker server install needed to use NMC or older management GUI pointed back to master backup server ( one that i am interested in monitoring) ?
Let me know what other options do i have ?
Thanks
  • ble1

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    Posted November 8th, 2007 13:00

    You can use nsrwatch, but you need Linux/UNIX box for that. You can also install NMC server on OPS computer as issue could be related to NMC machine you use now and simply have another box acting as your NMC server to access and monitor server (disable old one to lower down query frequency).

    NMC for 7.4 can be used to monitor previous servers - this has been done my several sites I know.

    For NMC you just need to install client (if that is the last question that you ask).