{"id":18,"date":"2009-01-25T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-01-25T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T06:24:07","slug":"networker-75-and-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/networker-75-and-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released in December 2008, NetWorker 7.5 represents an incremental increase in NetWorker functionality <em>mainly<\/em> aimed at the following three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtualisation support \u2013\u00a0better VCBs, better awareness of virtual infrastructure, visualisation of virtual infrastructure, etc.;<\/li>\n<li>Better integration with third party authority systems \u2013\u00a0e.g., LDAP, etc.;<\/li>\n<li>Support for IPv6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s the support for IPv6 that poses a particular challenge for Mac OS X clients. A bug currently exists with the NetWorker client for OS X that causes the startup and shutdown of the NetWorker daemons to take somewhere in the order of 5 minutes for the average machine. Given that IPv6 is enabled by <em>default<\/em> on Mac OS X, this means that a very high proportion of Mac OS X clients that are upgraded will experience this problem.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t pose a problem in normal operations; this startup and shutdown normally occurs in the background for machine boot\/reboot\/shutdown, and thus doesn\u2019t impact the time taken for a machine to start or shutdown \u2013\u00a0however, where it does pose an inconvenience is for an administrator working on the command line who needs to debug or test issues on a Mac OS X client. Indeed, the shutdown takes long enough that at least 50% of the time it times out and the nsrexecd processes need to be manually killed.<\/p>\n<p>There are three options that administrators can choose to perform:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delay deployment of NetWorker 7.5 on Mac OS X until the release of 7.5 SP1, where this issue is going to be fixed. (A 7.4.x client will communicate successfully with a 7.5 server.)<\/li>\n<li>Accept the shutdown\/startup delay for the time being and document it so that backup and system administrators are aware of the implications for the time being.<\/li>\n<li>Disable IPv6 on affected clients until the release of NetWorker 7.5 SP1. This can be done using the command: ip6 -x\u00a0 on the affected Mac OS X machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a big inconvenience, but it\u2019s one to be aware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in December 2008, NetWorker 7.5 represents an incremental increase in NetWorker functionality mainly aimed at the following three things:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[561,1249,1055],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","category-policies","tag-mac-os-x","tag-networker","tag-upgrading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}