We are pretty much ready to pitch our Networker 7.4 install out into the street. We are running 7.3.1 on another server and have had nothing but trouble with that, EMC claims the problem has to do with the old out of date clients we are running. In order to run the new clients we need to be on 7.4. So we went out and purchased a brand new HP server, Installed RHEL 5 and downloaded and installed 7.4 sp3. That was nearly a month ago. We got one successful test backup of our SQL Datawarehouse to our SAN, but after that everything has gone to crap. Numerous NMC problems and now creating new backups don't work at all.

On EMC's recomendation, we uninstalled and reinstalled networker. Everything appears fine except now we can't get into the NMC. Prompts for user name and password when you enter the defaults, (or anything else for that matter) it says can't authenticate this user name and password, try again. When you try again, it says it can't connect with the server. Turns out GST is stopping on the first attempt and then has to be restarted manually. While EMC support has been good, we don't have time to screw around with this stuff all day long, and I will be the first to admit, our lack of knowledge on this product doesn't help. We are beginning to think this is overkill for our needs.

Anyway, anyone out there who has experience installing Networker 7.4 on a RHEL 5 box with a fiber attached SAN and Qualstar Tape Jukebox and wants to make some side money, let me know.

Thanks