VerifyClients

Version as of 07:58, 4 Jun 2026

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All the Verify pages are structured in a similar fashion to each other.
Verify Client page has just one addition compared to other Verify pages.
It has an additional drop down box (labeled No 1 below) that allows the user to verify:
- All the Client Hosts that has been specified on the Backup What page.
  - This is option is at the bottom of the drop down list.
- A single Client Host from the drop down list.
- If users want to test two or more Client Hosts, the user will have to chose them one after the other and conduct separate tests for each of them.

Fig.1 Verifying Client

It is recommended to run the Client Verification after any change to the Backup What list.

Select either 'All' clients or any one of them to Verify from drop down box No 1.
Click the Verify Client Button (No 2 above) when ready to proceed.
The text in upper right hand rectangle (No 3 above) will change to indicate that the Client Verification process has started.

Fig.2 Progress Verifying Client

Further Progress messages/ error messages will appear in area No 4 .
ZMC's checks on a Client Host can give rise to a wide variety of error messages!

Fig.3 Failure Verifying Client

The error messages are verbose to help users to determine what caused the error.
Here the Host name specified in the Backup What page (though valid in terms of formatting rules) does not correspond to any entry in the Domain Name Server.
Hence DNS cannot provide any IP address for the next step of checking to begin.
- Go back to the BackupWhat page and correct the entry so that it corresponds to a DNS name.
- Come back to this page and verify the Amanda client without having to go through the previous successful checks.
Verification messages have hyperlinks (disklist in this example). Clicking on the hyperlink will provide additional information about the message from Zmanda Network Knowledgebase or the Amanda wiki.

A ZMC administrator must have root access on the ZMC server and all the client hosts that it is expected to backup.
The client software must be installed on each client separately.
- If these tasks have not been carried out, Verify client will give users verbose error messages when verifying the client.

Fig.4 Success Verifying Client

Please successfully verify all the clients before activating the backup set.