While trying to perform a Bare Metal Restore, I bumped into this problem. When selecting the Networker server, the following error popped out: Error trying to validate NetWorker Server credentials: No response from server.
In this case you should delete from the NetWorker server the peer information for the “old” client.
nsradmin -p nsrexec
NetWorker administration program.
Use the "help" command for help, "visual" for full-screen mode.
nsradmin> delete type:nsr peer information;name:<Client_name>
type: NSR peer information;
administrator: Administrators,
"group=Administrators,host=<NetWorker_server_name>";
name: <Client_name>;
peer hostname: <Client_name>;
Change certificate: ;
certificate file to load: ;
Delete? y
deleted resource id 1.0.184.26.201.180.0.0.67.34.6.96.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(1)
nsradmin> quit
That’s all. Now you can proceed selecting the NetWorker server and browse backups for that client.
This can be useful in other cases also, not only for BMR.
