A read a little and I think what I said before was a little bit misleading.


The KNOWN line is for servers that this server is aware of. The DEVICE_HOST
line is to list hosts that can manage the devices on this machine. So in
this setup the one KNOWN line indicates that the server knows about itself.
The two DEVICE_HOST lines mean that those two machines are allowed to manage
it. This would indicate a typical configuration for a slave (media) server.
The master server would typically look like 

KNOWN = server2
KNOWN = server1
DEVICE_HOST = server2

Indicating that the master (media) server knows about the slave and itself,
but only itself is allowed to manage this machine.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nee, Patrick [SMTP:patrick.nee AT lmco DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:42 PM
> To:   Norm Szcyrek
> Cc:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] Question about vm.conf setting
> [DEVICE_HOST]
> 
> I'm pretty sure this setting means there are two hosts controlling the
> robot
> (or what ever your tape setup is).  This is a possible set up and I've
> been
> told it's fairly common. I don't have this setup so I'm not positive. 
> 
> If the second is a client and doesn't actually control the tape
> drives/robot
> I don't think it should be there. On the other hand, if server1 is only
> the
> Netbackup server, and server2 actually controls the drives/robot, then the
> DEVICE_HOST = server1 line shouldn't be there. 
> 
> -
> Patrick Nee
> 
> Patrick.Nee AT lmco DOT com
> 603.885.8634
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Norm Szcyrek [SMTP:nszcyrek AT iocenter DOT net]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:03 PM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject:    [Veritas-bu] Question about vm.conf setting [DEVICE_HOST]
> > 
> > Ok, here's what may be another stupid question. I've noticed that our
> > vm.conf file has the following settings:
> > 
> > KNOWN = server1
> > DEVICE_HOST = server2
> > DEVICE_HOST = server1
> > 
> > Why are there 2 settings for the DEVICE_HOST parameter? Does one
> > override the other, or can both coexist? In the above scenario, server1
> > is the master backup server, and there are no other slave servers;
> > server2 is only a client. 
> > -- 
> > virtually,
> > 
> > Norman Szcyrek
> > aka "Normal Norm"
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