hello,

i have a clustered Networker environment. Networker 7.6.2 is running on top of the 2 node EMC AutoStart cluster on Solaris platform. both physical cluster nodes are used as storage nodes. everything worked fine with EMC EDL libraries and with the physical library so far. today we added new DataDomain boxes to the environment and configured VTL and couple of virtual tape drives to both cluster nodes. and strange behaviour occured.

i have one VTL with 2 drives connected to one storage node (NODE1) and another VTL with 2 drives to another (NODE2). everything works fine when i send data to passive node (where Networker virtual server is not running) which is currently NODE1. but when is send data to active node (NODE2) where also Networker virtual server is running it tries to mount tape to Networker virtual server instead of local storage node. networker virtual server does not have any tape devices configured at all. only physical node has drives. but i see message in the daemon.log:

nsrd Volume `XXXXXX' mounted on `NWSERVER' needs to be mounted on `NODE2'.

as i mentioned, there is no drives configured for NWSERVER, all drives are configured for NODE2. if i manually mount tape to NODE2, it works. but automatic mounting uses wrong server name. at the same time for EDL drives everything works fine.

i'm running out of ideas already...

regards,

kipz