SAN clients use LAN instead of FT

Problem

After restarting FT  media server processes, some FT  clients use the LAN instead of Fibre Transport for backups.

Cause

From the output of /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbftconfig -lc -verbose:

SAN Client HBA Port  : 16        SAN Client Device State: disabled        Media Server Name      : FTmediaserver01        Media Sever State      : active        Media Server HBA Port  : 3        Media Server Port Mode : FABRIC        Media Server LUN       : 0

Solution

Note that the value for 'SAN  Client Device State' is 'disabled'.

The operating system that runs on the FT client has seen the Archive Python devices disappear when the FT  media server processes were stopped, and then seen the Archive  Python devices reappear when the FT  media server processes were started again. This causes issues with many operating systems, and often the OS  will close the file descriptor that nbftclnt uses to communicate with the FT  pipes in question.

The solution is to stop and restart the FT client process on the SAN  client, nbftclnt.