Here's the IBM answer, it depends.

:D  just kidding you ibm'ers out there...

But in reality it does depend on your network.  When I was posed this
question as a consultant for OV to engineering the answer was, so long as
your network resolves the name the simple hostname will suffice.

The way to check  this out is use bpclntcmd from the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin directory.  From the client

bpclntcmd -self

will let you know how the network is resolving that client's name.

I think there is -hn for hostname (from the client give it the master
server's name).

I have used this in some cases to troubleshoot a DNS problem.

Good Luck,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Sixbury, Dan
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:34 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hostname resolution


I recently had some problems with one of my clients getting 14 errors.  I
think I had to update the server name to either include the full resolution
as in hostname.domain.com or just put hostname on one of my clients to
correct the problem in addition to restarting the netbackup processes.

Is there any place on unix that the master/media server's hostname is set
besides for the bp.conf?  My bp.conf uses the simple hostname, but I noticed
that the job monitor sees the server with the actual hostname which in my
case is fully qualified.

Do all clients have to be resolved the same way, as in all are fully
qualified or all use the simple hostname?

Thanks,
Dan
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