RE: Informix 9.4 Arcserve 11 Unable to open connection to database server
Posted in 2004
Rochelle wrote > We're running Informix 9.4 on Windows 2000 Server (sp4) with Arcserve > 11 Backup Agent for Informix. These two pieces of software > are installed on a "clean" machine (flattened and rebuilt). > Just after the Informix 9.4 software and the Arcserve agent > was installed, I ran a full backup from the Arcserve Manager > server. It worked just fine. > The DBA started tweaking the Informix server to get it ready > to import the data from our production database and now it > won't allow us to back it up any more. We get the Unable to > open connection to database server 155 (0x9b) error. I have > another clean system that I installed a similar configuration > on and it has continued to allow us to use Arcserve to back > up the database (no changes were made to the Informix server > configuration though). A couple of other notes - the > Arcserve manager resides on a separate server and all of the > servers in my configuration are workgroup (not domain) > servers. We've compared the configurations of the two > servers mentioned above and re-entered configuration data > until we're blue in the face. About the only thing we > haven't done is uninstalled and/or re-installed any of the > software. Anyone have any ideas about what might be causing > this problem? > What configuration files have you checked - Services Onconfig Sqlhosts Does the INFORMIXSERVER entry in onconfig match the entry in sqlhosts ? Is this variable set in your environment ? Colin Bull C.bull@videonetworks.com ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ________________________________________________________________________ sending to informix-list