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This was a great post and I’m glad things are changing, but I would like to request one more improvement: can we not have the MFA secret key emailed?Email has a tendency to leave a trail all over the place. A copy can be grabbed from a relay, a spam filter, a deleted bin or even in a company-policy-mandated permanent archive. So if an admin’s mail-enabled domain credential gets hacked and that account is used to administer CommVault, then it just takes a quick search (maybe in the admin’s own inbox) for “CommServe Administrator just doubled your safety” and now you have the MFA secret key. Keep in mind, it’s been shown that attackers are inside company networks sniffing around for a while before they make their attack.The MFA secret key should be displayed to the end-user via the CommCell Console (ideally in a QR code) after the first successful authentication. It should never be sent through a permanent or semi-permanent medium such as email.
I’m pretty new to the whole Commvault backup software, so please bear if I’m asking a stupid question.We have a lot of storage policies which we aren’t using anymore for new backups. But these policies contain still a lot of backup jobs until their retention expires. So I wonder if it is possible to either copy these jobs to another policy so that we can delete the old ones, or if it’s possible to merge storage policies somehow?Thanks
One of the things that is going to blow up here in my company soon is some jobs are taking over 24 hours to backup x amount of data. the clients which have huge durations are usually windows or linux file systems with variences of data being backed up from 2 TB to 8 TB+. My systems and networking department don't like to help unless all evidences point to an actual problem with either the network, or the server itself that is causing the latency of duration. Is there an easy way on commvault’s end to point out that “this client is running at this x GB/Hr, compared to when it was X GB/Hr” and prove that its not the backup software is causing the issue? I know when a active job runs it shows average throughput, and when double clicking on the job id it shows a percentage (Read: X%, Network X%) but I don't know if that's showing the percentage of what's causing the job s duration or what its trying to show. I want to avoid tidious work of going back and forth with my departments on each
Hi. We have a complicated setup where we are using a Topology Group to send data between Media Agents through a Firewall and Proxy. Once the data hits the Firewall all data is forced into 2 tunnel ports.In addition to this control we would like to reduce the number of source ports being used so that these can be monitored for backup flow. Currently using the Dynamic Port Range 49152 and 65535 does not allow us to do this.Is it as simple as forcing all data traffic into the tunnel (8403 by default) and if so will this create a bottleneck.Thanks, Andy
Hello All.A customer is running IBM Netcool for monitoring of current infrastructure and applications. They made mention that Netcool is making use of webhooks to receive alerts and notifications.I am not getting any results around Commvault’s configuration of webhooks.Does anyone have any information if this is available and how to configure it? Much appreciated.Ignes
We want to upgrade to Windows 2019. Are there any know issues when upgrading operating system to 2019? We are currently using Windows 2012.
Hello Commvault Community, My client after updating to the latest version of HotFix 11.20.53. Client began to observe critical events in Event Report. (screen)The problem is that the event description says about a failed to push Network Configuration attempt for Client - no information about which client. There are more and more events, and we don't know where to look for the problem. Is the problem global and threatens the environment and the jobs working with it? I recommended my client to do DBmaintenence - full, I am waiting for the results. I am asking for help and possible indication of where to look for the cause of the problem / how to solve this problem.ThanksRegardsKamil
Hi there, I have a synchronous copy to tape (aux copy job is scheduled every day). Now, I want only one weekly full backup to be copied to tapes. Is there only way to create new selective copy to achieve that?Am I right, that only changing schedule for synchronous copy from every day to every week can not help - in that case all jobs from the previous week would be copied once a week at a given time ?
Hi,Is there a way to use Ransomeware Protection on Windows MediaAgents, using a Disklibrary with Cluster Share Volumes ?Once Ransomeware Protection is activated, the filter driver “CVDLP” with the altitude of 145180 (encryption) is added to the Filesystem Filter.this results in redirected I/Os to all ClusterSharedVolumes :BlockRedirectedIOReason : NotBlockRedirectedFileSystemRedirectedIOReason : IncompatibleFileSystemFilterName : volume21Node : node1StateInfo : FileSystemRedirectedas a result the Clusted Events are flooded with Warnings:Cluster Shared Volume 'volume21' ('volume21') has identified one or more active filter drivers on this device stack that could interfere with CSV operations. I/O access will be redirected to the storage device over the network through another Cluster node. This may result in degraded performance. Please contact the filter driver vendor to verify interoperability with Cluster Shared
Hi there,We’re running Commvault v.11.21.34Is there a way to get a list of all backups currently on tapes outside the ‘Media in Library’.Some report or other way to get this list. Best regardsPatricG.
