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Veritas NetBackup™ Status Codes Reference Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-19

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)

Media Manager status code 126

Message: not authorized to connect to vmd

Explanation: A caller requesting services from vmd is either not authenticated or not authorized, or a problem is encountered when two systems attempt to authenticate one another.

Recommended Action:

See the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide for information on vmd security.
vmd security is based on NetBackup authentication or authorization and the media server entries defined in bp.conf/Host Properties on the master server for the specific NBU domain.
Examine the debug log files for a more detailed message on the authentication or the authorization problem.
See "Setting Media Manager debug logging to a higher level" in the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.
Correct the vmd security configuration by modifying the authentication configuration.
Note:
Ensure that both the source and the destination machines are within a single NBU domain.
If an authentication problem (rather than a configuration issue) is suspected, do the following:
- Check the methods_allow.txt files on the systems that have problems to ensure that authentication is enabled. The files are in the following locations:
  On Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\auth
  On UNIX and Linux: /usr/openv/var/auth
- On the systems that have the authentication problem, remove the remote host that is not authenticated from the methods_allow.txt file.
  For example, if Host A and Host B have the problem, remove Host A from the file on Host B, and vice versa.
  Retry the operation. If the problem still exists, the connection problems are not related to authentication.
- Add back the removed hosts and retry the operation.