I have always seen that the dsm.opt file IS processed from bottom up.  How it 
is read I don't know but everything not just the include/exclude list appears 
to be processed from teh bottom up.

Take a windows client and put 2 "NODE" statements in it.  Notice that it will 
always use the bottom one to connect.

We have seen this with other things like TCPWidowSize.  Someone had accidently 
put that entry in two places in the dsm.opt. One at the top and the other at 
the bottom.  We adjusted the one at the top not realizing there was another 
entry.  Of course nothing changed. Once we removed the entry from the bottom 
all was well.

I just ran the test above again using V5.2.3 on Windows XP.

Further, with TSM servers dsmserv.opt the same thing happens.  When you run the 
set opt command it adds an entry to the bottom of the dsmserv.opt file so that 
it is read in first.  This way if the default option was set above it will use 
the one at the bottom of the file.

Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM> wrote:
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

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 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


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