When reviewing a customer’s logs today, I noticed yet another one of those minor (but great) changes that periodically get added to NetWorker. This one is subtle, but both important and useful; it seems to be in at least 7.6.1.3 onwards, but I’m not sure if it appeared earlier.
As the server starts up, the client ID of the NetWorker server now gets clearly, explicitly logged in the daemon file. If you subsequently have an issue (e.g., DNS change, etc.) that triggers a client ID change, having this detail automatically logged will at least (a) help you notice and (b) come in use in changing it back.
The information is logged clearly:
nsrd <<< NSR server host 'tara.pmdg.lab' using Client id '85acae6f-00000004-464fbdd1-464fbdd0-00010000-c0a86404' >>>
(Line wrap added for clarity – it’s all one one line in the log.)
While you may not immediately need this information, being aware that it’s available is always A Good Thing.