Servername
In your dsm.sys file, the servername option specifies the name you want to use to identify a server and to begin a stanza containing options for that server. You can name and specify options for more than one server.
The following example demonstrates how to specify options for two different servers:
In your client user-options file (dsm.opt), the servername option specifies which server, of those named in your dsm.sys file, to contact for backup-archive services. When specified in a client user-options file (dsm.opt) or on the command line, the servername option overrides the default server specified in your client system options file.
- You cannot use the servername option to override the server that is specified for migration in your client system options file.
- If the Tivoli® Storage Manager server name changes or Tivoli Storage Manager clients are directed to a different Tivoli Storage Manager server, all clients must have a new password initialized for the new server name.
Supported Clients
This option is for all UNIX and Linux clients.
Options File
Place this option in the client user options file (dsm.opt) and in the client system options file (dsm.sys). In the dsm.sys file, the servername option is the beginning of a server stanza.
Do not modify this option in dsm.opt when you are running the Backup-Archive client in a command-line session or when your are running the Backup-Archive client GUI.
Parameters
- servername
- In your dsm.sys file, specify the name you want to assign to a
particular server. In your client user-options file (dsm.opt) or on
the command line, specify the name of the server you want to contact
for backup-archive services. The value of servername in
dsm.opt must match a servername value in dsm.sys,
or the client cannot contact the server.
A server name is not case sensitive; it can have up to 64 characters.
Examples
- Options file:
- servername server_a
- Command line:
- -se=server_b
This option is valid only on the initial command line. It is not valid in interactive mode.