Netbackup Solaris Client confirmation

Greetings,

I have a bunch of Solaris servers that are running Netbackup as a client. I set them up and my backup admin has confirmed that they are being backed up. But what I want to be able to do is run a command from each Solaris client to see some proof from the client side that the files are being backed up. In my case, root (/) and /export/home are the directories I am concerned with.

My Backup admin is running her Netbackup server on Windows and she gave me a few commands to try from my end and none of them work.

Here is one:

hostname:/
# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bplist -C hostname -R 1 /export/home
EXIT STATUS 25: cannot connect on socket
hostname:/
# telnet netbackupserver 12345
Trying 172.18.240.135...
Connected to netbackupserver.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection to netbackupserver closed.
hostname:/
# 

As you can see, I get the "EXIT STATUS 25: cannot connect on socket" error message, but I have no trouble telnetting to the "netbackupserver" on the required port.

Anyone know a fool-proof way of confirming netbackup is running from the Solaris client side? I am running Solaris 10.

Here are the commands available to me:

hostname:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin

# ls -la
total 82976
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     bin         1024 Feb 24  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     bin          512 Feb 24  2009 ..
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       777540 Jul 23  2007 SPSRecoveryAsst
-r-x------   1 root     bin      7155608 Jul 23  2007 bmrc
-r-x------   1 root     bin      9629944 Jul 23  2007 bmrsavecfg
-r-x------   1 root     bin      1100424 Jul 23  2007 bmrsetupclient
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       527080 Jul 23  2007 bp
-r-x------   1 root     bin        20123 Jul 23  2007 bp.kill_all
-r-x------   1 root     bin         4834 Jul 23  2007 bp.start_all
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Feb 24  2009 bparchive -> bpbackup
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       863620 Jul 23  2007 bpbackup
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      1319460 Jul 23  2007 bpbkar
-r-x------   1 root     bin      1479312 Jul 23  2007 bpcd
-r-x------   1 root     bin      2416688 Sep 14  2005 bpcd_old
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       830948 Jul 23  2007 bpclimagelist
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       823200 Jul 23  2007 bpclntcmd
-r-x------   1 root     bin       778096 Jul 23  2007 bpdynamicclient
-r-x------   1 root     bin      1339368 Jul 23  2007 bpfilter
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       712900 Jul 23  2007 bpfis
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       427496 Jul 23  2007 bphdb
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      1357108 Jul 23  2007 bpjava-msvc
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      1358572 Jul 23  2007 bpjava-usvc
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       830988 Jul 23  2007 bplist
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       374808 Jul 23  2007 bpmount
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       569076 Jul 23  2007 bpnbat
-r-x------   1 root     bin       174964 Jul 23  2007 bpps
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       844832 Jul 23  2007 bprestore
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       162984 Jul 23  2007 bptpcinfo
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Jul 23  2007 driver
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Feb 24  2009 goodies
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Feb 24  2009 jbpSA -> /usr/openv/java/jbpSA
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Feb 24  2009 jnbSA -> /usr/openv/java/jnbSA
-r-x------   1 root     bin         1965 Jul 23  2007 merge_auth_templates
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       421892 Jul 23  2007 mtfrd
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       261476 Jul 23  2007 nbfirescan
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       119208 Jul 23  2007 nbfs
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      3530088 Jul 23  2007 nbftclnt
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin        31930 Jul 23  2007 nblu_registration
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin      1386488 Jul 23  2007 ndmpclient
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Jul 23  2007 private
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Jul 23  2007 support
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       483036 Feb 24  2009 tar
-r--r--r--   1 root     bin           24 Feb 24  2009 version
-r-x------   1 root     bin         1008 Jul 23  2007 vxlogcfg
-r-x------   1 root     bin         1003 Jul 23  2007 vxlogmgr
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin         1005 Jul 23  2007 vxlogview

thanks!

The error you received -

NetBackup Status Code: 25
Message: cannot connect on socket

From dlc.sun.com 875-3211-11.pdf

The only checks I know to run are
inetadm|grep -i bcpd

enabled online svc:/network/bcpd/tcp:default

telnet localhost bcpd
Trying 127.0.0.1
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'