[Veritas-bu] Changing Master Server Hostname

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<P>Hi all,</P>
<P>It is hard to get technical advice for&nbsp;non-ordinary issues.&nbsp; 
Veritas has a tendency to refer customers to their consulting 
services.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also, I would like to see Veritas offers training classes 
on specialized topics&nbsp;e.g. SSO, clustered server 
configuration,&nbsp;Oracle DB, &amp; etc. </P>
<P>Eliza</P>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Ed Wilts &lt;ewilts AT ewilts DOT org&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;To: Jerry &lt;juanino AT yahoo DOT com&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;CC: "Schmitz, Jeff" &lt;Jeff.G.Schmitz AT conocophillips DOT 
com&gt;,&nbsp;&nbsp; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Master Server Hostname 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:38:05 -0500 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:55:47AM -0700, Jerry wrote: 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; I've been told "don't do this" by Veritas as well as 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; by numerous people on this list. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;It can be done but it's non-trivial.&nbsp;&nbsp;We did a 
simultaneous migration of 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Windows to Solaris changing host names along the 
way.&nbsp;&nbsp;It took us a 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;couple of tries and it's not for the faint of 
heart.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you're 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;comfortable doing hex dumps of the data files, writing some 
perl, and 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;have a good knowledge of data structures, you can figure it 
out.&nbsp;&nbsp;If 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;you're not comfortable doing that, then changing host names is 
not for 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;you.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wouldn't even think about it if your master 
server is on 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Windows - most of the work in our migration was done on the 
target, not 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;the source. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; I think it's a load 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; of garbage that they tied it to the hostname so 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; tightly. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;It's certainly a bad design decision and one that I hopefully 
will 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;see changed in an upcoming release. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;-- 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org 
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