April 2014

NetWorker 8.1 Cumulative Hotfixes

Cumulative hotfixes are periodically issued. They combine various individual hotfixes that might
have an impact on customer production environments.
The current cumulative hotfix is NetWorker 8.1.1.4 Build 297. The cumulative hotfix was
released on April 7th, 2014.
You can download the latest Cumulative Hotfixes package for NetWorker 8.1 at:
ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/NetWorker/Cumulative_Hotfixes/8.1

Installation and De-installation Instructions

The procedure to install and uninstall the NetWorker software differs based upon the OS
platform that is used on the NetWorker server. The NetWorker Procedure Generator (NPG)
provides step-by-step guidelines on how to install and uninstall the NetWorker server software
on different OS platforms.
You can download the NPG on the EMC Online Support site at
https://support.emc.com/products/1095 and then click Support Topic>Tools and Utilities.

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.1.4

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Product
NetWorker

Release
th
April 7 , 2014

Build
297

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.1.4 includes the following fixes:

NW156890 - Scheduled clone resource is re-enabled silently if disabled when a clone job is
in progress.
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KB182921: http://support.emc.com/kb/182921

NW150984 - savegrp does not honor -q option.

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KB185019: http://support.emc.com/kb/185019

NW158221 - NMC does not auto update space usage for Data Domain hosts.
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KB184990: http://support.emc.com/kb/184990

NW156909 - REGRESSION: Unable to label new VTL tapes on AIX SN after the upgrade to
v8.0.x.
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KB177105: http://support.emc.com/kb/177105

NW159783 - Savegroup status is not updated properly when a non-critical volume fails
during a DR Backup.
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KB185020: http://support.emc.com/kb/185020

NW155917 - Public archives is disabled but all members of the Archive Users group have
read permission.
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KB176570: http://support.emc.com/kb/176570

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NW158170 Cannot connect to NW server or distribute NMC configuration after upgrade to

8.1.0.4 from 7.6.3.
- KB185520: http://support.emc.com/kb/185520
NW155015 - When selecting multiple clients via NMC to update, specific fields error is
reported and update fails.
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KB185516: http://support.emc.com/kb/185516

NW154461: DDS status messages incorrect after upgrade to NW 8.0.2.

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KB180219: http://support.emc.com/kb/180219

NW156305 Cannot recover cores during a browse of an NDMP save set's index when
trying to use changetime or list the directory contents.
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KB182768: http://support.emc.com/kb/182768

NW157672 - NSM backup of DB2 fails due to nsrd/nsrmmdbd issues on AIX.

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KB185883: http://support.emc.com/kb/185883

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.1.3

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Product
NetWorker

Release
th
March 5 , 2014

Build
289

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.1.3 includes the following fixes:

NW157442: NSM for NMDA 1.6 backup failed.
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KB176527: http://support.emc.com/kb/176527

NW157007: NetWorker deleting not-expired bootstrap savesets from disk vols after touch
"force_bootstrap_removal_from_disk".
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KB176528: http://support.emc.com/kb/176528

NW156457: Null parameter dialog box appears when clicking on a report in chart view
where parameters in chart selector are modified
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KB182709: http://support.emc.com/kb/182709

NW155951: NMC Group status reports success despite failed NetWorker backup with
input/output error.
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KB173819: http://support.emc.com/kb/173819

NW155229: Preclnt save failure leaves tmp file and causes subsequent backups to fail if no
manual clean performed.
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KB183155: http://support.emc.com/kb/183155

NW155055: nsrvadp_recover.exe crashes on restore of a VM.

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KB176257: http://support.emc.com/kb/176257

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NW154313: nsrsnmd Unable to initialize device Request for reserved connection failed for
device.
- KB176528: http://support.emc.com/kb/176528
NW152038: Max sessions attribute restricting the number of authorized sessions following
upgrade to 8.0.1.4.
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KB170261: http://support.emc.com/kb/170261

NW151683: NMM 24sp1 Fails to restore AD LDS (ADAM) Does not Display Active Directory
Restore
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KB182788: http://support.emc.com/kb/182788

NW148112: NetWorker is not honoring clone storagenode restrictions with DDboost when
mediatype attr is set for the destinatn clone pool.
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KB126779: http://support.emc.com/kb/126779

NW155211: gstclreport.bat returns null.

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KB176573: http://support.emc.com/kb/176573

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.0.5

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Product
NetWorker

Release
th
January 27 , 2014

Build
237

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.0.5 includes the following fixes:

NW157442: NSM for NMDA 1.6 backup failed.
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KB176527: http://support.emc.com/kb/176527

NW154984: Clients created on a Linux server, using all upper case, create a nested
directory in the index directory
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KB176644: http://support.emc.com/kb/176644

NW154781: Restarted savegroup never completes - clients with skip schedule hang
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KB171245: http://support.emc.com/kb/171245

NW154719: jobkill is not able to kill active jobs.

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KB176106: http://support.emc.com/kb/176106

NW157007: NetWorker deleting not-expired bootstrap savesets from disk vols after touch
"force_bootstrap_removal_from_disk".
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KB176528: http://support.emc.com/kb/176528

NW154313: nsrsnmd Unable to initialize device Request for reserved connection failed for
device.
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KB176528: http://support.emc.com/kb/176528

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NW151935: Downgrade from AD to local auth causes user groups not to work.
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KB176530: http://support.emc.com/kb/176530

NW155055: nsrvadp_recover.exe crashes on restore of a VM.

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KB176257: http://support.emc.com/kb/176257

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.0.4

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Product
NetWorker

Release
th
December 30 2013

Build
227

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.0.4 includes the following fixes:

NW156699: nsrd core dumps with NULL clone pool request in broker.c:device_available().
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KB175565: http://support.emc.com/kb/175565

NW146642: The saveset defined with multi-byte character is garbled in

savegrp.log/messages on Windows.
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KB176051: http://support.emc.com/kb/176051

NW155701: Populating repository operation fails for 32-bit package of NW8.1.

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KB175648: http://support.emc.com/kb/175648

NW155452: VADP backup fails with Windows 2003 proxy host and NW 8.1.
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KB176145: http://support.emc.com/kb/176145

NW155061: nsrd looping on "failed to retrieve ssid when building clone rlist".
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KB175927: http://support.emc.com/kb/175927

NW154753: nsrd Storage Node property update 'AFTD allowed directories' fails with conflict
when more than 2 directories used.
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KB173807: http://support.emc.com/kb/173807

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.0.3

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Product
NetWorker

Release
nd
December 2 2013

Build
219

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.0.3 includes the following fixes:

NW153641: DD devices unexpectedly unmounted under high load.
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KB170320: http://support.emc.com/kb/170320

NW154241: nsrclone loops on - Error: nonexistant cloneid [from NW151844].

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KB173928: http://support.emc.com/kb/173928

NW154708: The client wizard for modification of proxy host will add "nsrvadp_save" in
backup command field.
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KB171244: http://support.emc.com/kb/171244

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NW155277: analysis of core dump of nsrjobd.

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KB174741: http://support.emc.com/kb/174741

NW154835: nsrd core dump on Linix86w server running NetWorker 8.0.1.6.

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KB174259: http://support.emc.com/kb/174259

NW154524: Checking resource types in the RAP database process is very slow.
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KB174409: http://support.emc.com/kb/174409

Cumulative Hotfix 8.1.0.2

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Product
NetWorker

Release
th
November 4 2013

Build
212

Cumulative hotfix 8.1.0.2 includes the following fixes:

NW154592: NetWorker client package cannot be installed on AIX.
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KB170873: http://support.emc.com/kb/170873

NW148512: NetWorker is not honoring clone storage node restrictions with DDboost when
media type attr is set for the destination clone pool.
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KB126779: http://support.emc.com/kb/126779

NW153375: Directory users logged in to the NMC lose NetWorker privilege.

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KB169533: http://support.emc.com/kb/169533

NW153321: A lot of backups fail because 'nsrd RPC critical Unable to accept client
connection limit reached (2047)'.
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KB171325: http://support.emc.com/kb/171325

NW152571: NMC 8.0.1.4 unable to manipulate client resource fields when created via
nsradmin script.
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KB171334: http://support.emc.com/kb/171334

NW152010: GSTD logging errors received incorrect job size.

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KB172067: http://support.emc.com/kb/172067

NW152296: Unable to recover from NDMP backups created with NetWorker 8.0.0.4.
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KB166009: http://support.emc.com/kb/166009

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