Error receiving Bare Metal Restore information during backup of client RHEL on Netbackup

Problem

Error receiving Bare Metal Restore information during backup of client RHEL on Netbackup

Error Message

01.12.2021 10:58:30 - Error bpbrm (pid=1761542) BMRERR: Received BMR error: Failed to import Config file. (27)
01.12.2021 10:58:31 - Error bpbrm (pid=1761542) BMRERR: Received BMR error: Unable to parse client information. (6)
01.12.2021 10:58:31 - Error bpbrm (pid=1761542) BMRERR: Received BMR error: Failed sending the discovery. (21)
01.12.2021 10:58:31 - Error bpbrm (pid=1761542) BMRERR: Received BMR error: BMR information discovery failed. (35)
01.12.2021 10:58:31 - Info bmrsavecfg (pid=0) done. status: 1: the requested operation was partially successful

bmrsaveconfig -infoonly fails for the client

[root@gf0vsxas024l logs]# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bmrsavecfg -infoonly
sh: /bin/netstat: No such file or directory
sh: /sbin/ifconfig: No such file or directory

Cause

The common executables netstat and ifconfig were not installed on the Red Hat client. 

The BMR option on policy calls bmrsavecfg to run on the client and this is calling for those executables and they are not found.

Solution

The workaround is to install the net-tools package.

Install those executables manually from the operating system. 

Then run the backup again and this now completes.

Note: The required Emergency Engineering Binary is installed on the boot server for 9.1.0.1 reference etrack 4055912