[Veritas-bu] Unable to telnet bpcd from remote machine

[Justin Piszcz]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Prabhu Mohan wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I recently installed Netbackup Client S/W on RHEL 5.4. The installation
> completed successfully. But I'm unable to access the client properties from
> my Windows 2003 master server. On the client telnet localhost bpcd worked.
> But when tried from server it failed.
>
> I also tried ps aux | grep bpcd
>
> and I got
>
> root      2130  0.0  0.1 108192  2292 ?        S    18:17   0:00
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpcd -standalone
> root      2538  0.0  0.0  61200   724 pts/1    R+   18:31   0:00 grep bpcd
>
> Why is bpcd running in standalone mode? And I dont find any file named bpcd
> under xinetd.d directory!! Help please!!!

Run:

# netstat -natpul|grep 13782

Is xinetd.d installed and running?
How did you install the client?

If xinetd is not installed, it may try /etc/inetd.conf, if neither are
installed or available, it probably will start it as standalone.

Here is the bpcd on a client:

$ cat bpcd
# Service bpcd for NetBackup
service bpcd
{
         socket_type             = stream
         protocol                = tcp
         wait                    = no
         user                    = root
         server                  = /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpcd
         disable                 = no
}


Run: /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep bpcd
         bpcd:           on

Make sure its on, if its not, enable it and restart xinetd, you will need
to kill off bpcd or cycle services too probably.

Justin.