>>I am looking at using the SQL agent for backing up a database, but was
>>wondering when running the client and the agent do you need to define them
>>as two different nodes on the server?  Or can you just have one dsm.opt
>>file and both the client and agent use that file for backups?
>
>It is recommended that you use different node names and have separate
options
>files for the b/a
>client and the SQL agent.  You don't want the SQL agent filespaces to show
up
>in the b/a client  GUI
>since the b/a client does not know how to handle them.  There are also
several
>other problems that
>could occur if you try to share the options file so I would advise against
>doing so.
>
>Chris Zaremba
>ADSM Agent Development
>internet  zaremba AT us.ibm DOT com