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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
