Self-Hosted Q&A

Last week one of our customers asked us if Commvault was using Python as they were investigating the vulnerability CVE 2015-20107. I found through another community post that Metrics servers or CommServes with metrics package are using Python.Python 3 usage on CommserveAll versions of Python are currently vulnerable (up to latest release 3.10.4) so in-place patching of Python will no resolve this vulnerability in Python.Is Commvault vulnerable and what workarounds and/or mitigations are recommended?

I have seen a few comments on this subject but i still cannot find the linux commserv software. I have used the download manager and here is the contents of the latest v11.25 Media kit, v11.26 is the same. Should i be be seeing the Commserve module for linux also ??? Thanks, Phil

I read that its advisable (but not required) to update the commserve MSSQL DB to 2019, but this can always be done later.I heard that when updating Oracle clients (or clients that have Oracle on them), the upgrade of the CommVault client will restart the Oracle database.  I’m not seeing this specified anywhere, but here: Planning Feature Release Installations (commvault.com) its mentioned “Prepare block-level clients for restart after feature release installations”… but, how do I determine what is block level and what is not?  Are Oracle clients ( or SAP for Oracle) “Block level” by default?Are there any other things to consider that are known special things for this upgrade, of any “restarts’ of apps on servers being backed up (like oracle) being restarted/impacted by a commvault upgrade?Note: I have commvault servers/proxies/media agents still running Windows 2012, and this is planned to be updated (via hardware refresh at future dat), but not sure if 2012 is a problem for sp24.

HiI’m trying to do a 1-Touch restore on Linux, but we do not have DNS in the network used for restore.Is it possible to exit the YAST2 configuration and edit the host file before continue?(I need to add some DNS addresses to the /etc/hosts file).I know there is a feature for Windows, where F6 will bring up the CMD, which have solved the problem on that platform. Hope you can help.

could check how I deal with this oracle bank error.  

Hello Community,We would like some clarification about the application sizes that are reported in the command center for the O365 apps.When looking at directly an exchange application (see screenshot 1), we can find a value for associated entities and a value for application size. It seems that the associated entities are related to the number of mailboxes protected. But what is the exact definition for the value reported under “Application size” ? Is it the cumulativ total size protected since the beginning of backups ? or is it the size at instant t of exchange data on the tenant ?When looking at the chargeback details report for the same client (which has only one exchange online client configured) (see screenshot 2), we don’t find the same values. There is a FET size which is less than the Application size reported at the client level, and the mailbox count is only 46, while there are 67 mailboxes backed up.Does someone know the exact definitions of the values provided at these 2 l

Hello,we have same local users and their password change every 60 days. But They use the same passowrd. How can I Ignore that. We want that they use different passwords after they change it

Hi Team,I would like to clarify / check some about the Exchange Index Restore.In my environment we have Index folder separately for exchange index catalog/metadata. May i know below:1. Is the restore index will rebuild from last hour it was backup?2. What are the procedure to rebuild the index after restore?3. Is the restored data will get conflict with latest backup? May need your guidance on this. Thanks. 

Hi All,I am running CommServe in VMware. I have noticed that the CPU load is continuously rising.In five days after startup it linearly rose from 1.2 GHz to 8 GHz. After restart it fell back to 1.2 GHz but is rising again.Memory consumption is increasing too.CommServe version is 11.26.8.Top CPU consumer in Task Manager is “Apache Commons Daemon Service Runner” / “Commvault Content Extractor (Instance001)”.No jobs are running since yesterday - scheduler has been disabled (it is demo installation). Any ideas? Regards,Lubos

Hello community !Our organization consist of one main AD domain, and several groups, faculties and institutes (i.e departments).At many of these sub-division we have backup admins who needs to be in control of the backup of their machines. ( i.e Tenant Admins)Since Company is the only organizational unit in Commvault my initial thought was to assign separate companies to the departments, but I have been unable to find a way to assign several Companies to the same identity server (Active Directory) with group separation. Does anyone know any best practice/advice on how to divide a huge AD with lots of OU’s and groups into a viable organization structure in Commvault ? Kjell Erik Furnes  

After moving the index server to a new server, some users have STUBS with an incorrect link - i.e. the host has not changed.Please help, how can this be changed for the entire organization?I will be very appreciate for help.  

Install software is failing on our side with the following error Error Code: [68:192] Description: Software Cache is empty or does not contain the packages required for client's operating system. i tried download/copy software option and job is completed without errors but still facing the above same issue in the install software.

We do a DR test every year and most of our servers are Virtual which makes it SUPER easy.  However we have 2 servers that are physical.  Last year I had an issue once I got Commvault finally installed on the new physical server and named the server the same name and IP and everything as what is on our production system I couldn’t get it to connect with commvault to restore to.  Its possible there was issues at the facility, but I am wondering best practices for how to make this work smooth.  Should we be adding commvault to a blank server and then connecting it back in with the same name or add the server as a generic name and push software to it from commvault and then rename it to what our system normally sees.  I hope this makes a little sense and is not just a rambling question, if so forgive me for that one.  Thanks for all the help.

Hello All,I need a help in deciding the Proxy server system requirements for backup copy when IntelliSnap operation is performed on SAP Oracle, SAP HANA and MS SQL database.Someone please let me know what is the required system requirements specific to compute and also what all agents to be installed on the proxy?RegardsAnanth

Folder in Outlook calendar with calendar appointments are restored as mail type and not as calendar folder. Also all entries in this folder are mail type. Is this a known issue? Thank you.

There is an option in gxtail to connect to remote logs and it has fields for authentication, but when I populate those fields it does not work. is it supposed to work? Am I missing something?

Is it possible to backup a directory and its subdirectories (several levels deep) and exclude all files, using a Windows File System agent, i.e. I only want to backup the directory structure.  I’ve looked at Filters and wildcards but could not see how to achieve this.

We are receiving mail from the server about corrupted data on backup diskHow to solve the issue?  

There's an error like this all of a sudden during check readness.How shall I do it? 

What are The Best Practices for restricting NFS share permissions?Our storage supports NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, LDAP Domain Settings and NIS Domain Settings. NFS Shares supports “Network group” (network group name configured in the LDAP or NIS domain) What are the Recommended options on... Permission Constraint: all_squash: The user ID (UID) and group ID (GID) of a shared directory are mapped to user nobody,  no_all_squash: The UID and GID of a shared directory are reservedroot Permission Constraint:root_squash: The client cannot access the storage system as user root. If a client accesses the storage system as user root, the client will be mapped as user nobody. no_root_squash: allows a client to access the file system as user root that has full control and access permissions for shared directories. If a share is used to create a VM, no_root_squash is recommended.Source Port Verification:secure: If secure is selected, clients can use ports 1 to 1023 to access NFS shares. insecure: If in

How can I add the Duration value as a column to the Admin Job History output?  

I am on 11.24.29 version of Commvaultwe have Carbon Black in our environment, which blocks the install of CV Client.The IT Security team is asking me for the location of the “app”, which I assume is the windows client, that gets pushed to the new Clientwhere is the location of the Windows Client on the COMMSERVE what is the path on the Client of where the Client gets copied to before it tries to install it

Hi， I have the below question from customer:   Endpoint licensing is based on users and 1 user is limited to 5 devices. What happens if the user logs in to like 6 or 7 devices? What variation happens in licensing? If a user is the owner of more than 5 devices, is still one endpoint license counted for this user? Is there any license over-usage alert to be generated or functional limitation in Commcell?

Hi community!We just started to use the Commvault Command Center, is there a possibility to create a 1 touch response xml file from the web interface?As we also backup our windows PCs in production with commvault, this would give the shift leaders an opportunity to restore their machines (in case of a disaster), by simply creating a response file, copy it to a 1 touch provisioned usb drive, and exchange the hdd before starting to restore.

I was wondering if the flashback command is or isn’t supported once backups are moved into Commvault, particularly if not, then does Commvault mimic that functionality? I was told that this command isn’t able to be used and as we are doing a PoC of these agents, nothing turns up in any searches of the documentation.thanks