Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

"Backup Exec cannot establish a trust with the remote computer because an SSL connection cannot be set up. You can attempt to resolve this issue by re-establishing  the trust  between the Backup Exec server and the remote computer" Additional detail: Calling Method 'SetServerTrust' BEMSDK Method 'MediaServerAdvertisementUpdate' BEMSDK Failure Code:  -536831088:X88 This can be caused by the time and date being set incorrectly on either the Backup Exec media server or on the target machine.

We've found another disturbing bug in the BEMCLI PowerShell SDK when viewing Hyper-V selections The issue seems to be in the BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEHyperVSelection class. When the Host Component is excluded this is clearly shown in the browse and selection details tabs.  However when viewed using PowerShell the SelectionType is clearly shown as Include rather than exclude. This is potentenially dangerously misleading.

We're currently adding support for BackupExec to our network documentation tool, XIA Configuration Server and in the process have encountered a bug in the Backup Exec PowerShell API (BEMCLI). When you have files selected for a Linux agent (in the example RedHat Enterprise Linux) everything works as expected in the user interface. However when running Get-BEBackupDefintion the SelectionList for the Linux systems report the following BEMCLI PowerShell SDK reports BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEUnrecognizedSelection for Linux selection. This is a bug in the product and has been confirmed by Symantec.

When running a WMI query you may see the error message WMI The object exporter specified was not found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070776) We've found that restarting the Windows Management Instrumentation Service can resolve this error.

With XIA Configuration Server , the network documentation tool you can now document your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Configuration. This allows you to see which profile is currently active on a machine, the default inbound and outbound actions as well as list the currently enabled rules. Click on a rule to see the configuration details for that rule.