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.

Environment

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

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.

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