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NetBackup™ for Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide

Credential validation failed. Provide correct Cloud account name and credentials.

Explanation

This issue may occur in the following scenarios:

  • The system is running RHEL 9.6 or later.

  • The OpenSSL version was manually upgraded.

In newer RHEL releases, OpenSSL has been updated from version 3.2.2 to 3.5.1. The newer version has known issues for NetBackup functionality. As a result, both discovery and backup might fail in NetBackup.

To verify the issue, you can check the nbcosp_sys log file on the backup host, at the location:

/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/nbcosp_sys

Look for the entry:

panic: tls: HKDF-Extract invocation failed unexpectedly: EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_hkdf_salt
        openssl error(s):
        error:078C0102:common libcrypto routines::passed a null parameter

Workaround

  1. Add the following entries to the bp.conf file on the backup host:

    • COSP_DISABLEKYBER = 1

    • COSP_FORCETLSV12 = 1

  2. Restart the nbcosp service.

  3. Retry the operation.

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