Oddly enough, it actually<\/em> looked like a DNS issue in the environment. Windows nslookups could often timeout for 2 x 2 seconds before returning successfully, and just occasionally the gstd.raw log file on the NMC server would report name resolution oddities. This seemed borne out by the fact that recoveries executed directly from clients using the old winworkr interface or the CLI would work \u2013 with a separate NMC and NetWorker server, the name resolution path between the types of recoveries were guaranteed to be different.<\/p>\n (Just a quick interrupt. The NetWorker Usage Survey is happening again. Every year I ask readers to participate and tell me a bit about their environment. It’s short \u2013 I promise! \u2013 you only need around 5 minutes to answer the questions. When you’re finished reading this article, I’d really appreciate if you could jump over and do the survey<\/a>.) <\/em><\/p>\n But it was an interesting one. Over the years I’ve seen a few oddities in the way NMC behaves, and I wasn’t inclined to completely let NMC off the hook. So while we were digging down on the DNS scenarios, I was also talking to the support and eventually engineering teams about it from an NMC perspective.<\/p>\n It turned out to be a locale problem. A very locale problem. It also eventually made sense why I couldn’t reproduce it in a lab. You see, I’m a bit of a lazy Windows system builder \u2013 I do the install, patch it and then get down to work. I certainly don’t do customisation of the languages on the systems or anything like that.<\/p>\n But the friendly engineer assigned to the case did<\/em> do just that, and it became obvious that the problems were only reproducible when the the regional display formats on a Windows host were set to either “English (Australian)” or “English (New Zeaaland)”.<\/p>\n By Windows host<\/em>, I mean the machine that the NMC Java application was being run on \u2013 not the NMC server, not the NetWorker server, but the NMC client<\/em>.<\/p>\n So, the following would allow NMC to behave oddly:<\/p>\n But, with the following setting, the NMC recovery interface would purr like a kitten:<\/p>\n It’s certainly something worth keeping in mind if you’re using the recovery interface in NMC a lot \u2013 if something looks like it’s not quite right, flick your regional formats setting across to “English (United States)” and see whether that makes a big difference.<\/p>\n (Hey, now you’ve finished reading this article, just a friendly reminder: The NetWorker Usage Survey is happening again. 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