From: Farren Minns [mailto:fminns AT WILEY.CO DOT UK] 
> We have a machine that we'll call FRED. It is very large and has been
> registered on the TSM server as FRED and subsequently backed up. Now
> (please don't ask me why) we are having to change the hostname of this
> machine to FRED.companyname.com (yes, that will be the 
> actually host name. It's a fix from Oracle! ).
> 
> Anyway, my question is, can we change the name of it such 
> that we won't
> have to back it all up again. I can see under the edit client 
> node menu
> that there is an option to change the node name. Can I just 
> go into this
> and change FRED to FRED.companyname.com, and will this do the trick?
> 
> The server is over 200GB and I don't want to have to back 
> this up again unless really really really necessary.

The hostname of the TSM client, and its nodename, are two entirely
separate entities.

If the hostname was FRED, edit your dsm.sys file and add the following
line:

        nodename fred

You can then change your hostname to anything you want, and TSM will not
be affected.
 
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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
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