Interesting.... I'll have to look into this. If you don't specify the
DEAULTSERVERNAME option in dsm.sys, the default stanza should be the
*first* one in the list, not the last.

Regards,

Andy

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IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/01/2004
11:49:16:

> My finding is that if you have several stanzas
> Server A
> ...
>
> Server B
>
> And you do a dsmc it will automatically connect to server B and not
server
> A.  That is important to us because if we have an oracle database
connecting
> with one node name and the client files being backed up as a different
node
> name we use the dsmc -se=servera if we want to use servera or vice
versa.
> If we just typed dsmc we would get serverb.  We had some issues with
some
> backup software that wouldn't let us specify a node name or a server
name so
> we had to make it the bottom most stanza so it would connect with the
node
> name that we preferred and then just used the -se option for everything
> else.
>
> Becky