You cannot, easily, rename a Master. It was suggested to go the professional services route, but that seems quite expensive for something that is most likely just to meet a naming standard.
For the media server you use another Windows server and add it to your environment, then decommission the old one. Or, if you?re a bit more daring, you could decommission the media server, uninstall NBU software (or make sure the NBU portion of the registry is clean of references to the old hostname), rename the host, and reinstall NBU and add it to the domain.
My personal preference would be to use the second server in case something goes wrong. And definitely take a catalog and filesystem backup before you start.
Has anyone renamed a Master Server and Media Servers running Windows with NBU 6.0 & 6.5? we are restructuring some of our AD domains and migrating servers to new domains. The server short names will not change, but in many places we have used the fully-qualified names and these will change.
I?m aware that one can create aliases in EMM db, and create CNAMEs in DNS, entries in old & new names in bp.conf/registry etc, but we think that there are a lot more steps. Has anyone done this and might be willing to share the ?cookbook?? We would I?m sure test this out in a lab before going to production but we need to know all the dark corners that we need to go.
I can think that the media ownership will need changing, and I don?t see it being too hard to fix storage units, even recreate them if required. But will we need to manually go into EMM db with SQL and fix anything? That sounds a bit scary. So any experience that anyone can share would be useful.
Thanks.
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