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Migrating the NetVault Server and restoring the NVDB results in the NetVault Service not starting.
Description
The same NetVault version AND NetVault Name was used for the migration. The auditor trace shows the failure after the NVDB restore has completed and the NVBU service has restarted. The auditor cannot decrypt the Postgres database password.
Error messages within the NetVault Server trace files...
Auditor: 0 DBWRKFLW ??? 3324 128 0 113100248529 DbPgGetSuPassword: could not decrypt NVBU PostgreSQL database superuser password 0 AUDDBSHR ??? 3324 3 0 113100248529 Connection to postgres database failed 3 AUDDBSHR ??? 3324 2 0 113100248529 Auditor database creation == FALSE (-1). 2 AUDPOLOP ??? 3324 2 0 113100248529 Initializing global password policy mgmt system 0 DBWRKFLW ??? 3324 128 0 113100248529 DbPgGetSuPassword: could not decrypt NVBU PostgreSQL database superuser password 0 DBWRKFLW ??? 3324 128 0 113100248529 DbPgGetSuPassword: could not decrypt NVBU PostgreSQL database superuser password 0 AUDDBACC ??? 3324 91 0 113100248529 Failed to connect to the auditor's db 2 AVPMAIN ??? 3324 3 0 113100248529 Auditor exiting... 0 NET ??? 3324 84 0 113100264156 Connection down
Process Manager: 0 PMGR ??? 3188 250 0 113100248529 Process had an error starting up. Abort NetVault startup 0 PMGR ??? 3188 109 0 113100248529 ************* SET gbShutdown to TRUE *********** 0 PMGR ??? 3188 110 0 113100248529 Shuting down
In order that the NetVault Services can start, the PostgreSQL NVDB service also has to start and keep running. If the PostgreSQL NVDB service isn’t running, then NVBU Service will also not run.
This points to an issue restoring the nvpgdb.cfg file, because that file has the Postgres password encrypted using the original server's hostname as a key.
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