After upgrading to CAPM 3.6 backup and copycluster attempts fail

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to CAPM 3.6 backup and copycluster attempts fail with the following error:

/opt/vertica/bin/vbr.py --task backup --config-file /home/dradmin/backup_snapshot.ini
Error: Error in VBR config: Invalid (section, option) pair (Transmission, bwlimit) in config file.
Backup FAILED.

Cause

The variable bwlimit used to be acceptable but was deprecated in Vertica 7.1 and finally removed in Vertica 9.0.  CAPM 3.6 uses Vertica Analytic Database 9.0.1-7.

Environment

Release: IMDAGG99000-3.6-Infrastructure Management-Data Aggregator
Component:

Resolution

Edit the ini file being used for either backup or copycluster and remove the following line from the Transmission section:

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Additional Information

Vertica documentation reference for the removal of the bwlimit variable.

https://my.vertica.com/docs/9.0.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/NewFeatures/_VersionIndependent/DeprecatedandRetiredFunctionality.htm?Highlight=bwlimit