How to change domain for Legato Networker Server

[ttroxell]

I've got Legato Networker 6.1.3 running on Solaris 5.8.

We've currently got two domains, and need to reduce to one. Can you tell me how to change domains on our solaris system, and what affect if any, will it have on Legato Networker? Legato Networker is currently used to backup the solaris system, and two w2k servers, on the same domain. After the domain change, it will continue to backup the same three systems on the new domain.

 

[ghorton]

I don't know the specifics for Solaris, I changed the domain of our win2k backup server last year. I posted a query regarding this here are the notes from that thread.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=801971&page=1

Also here are the procedures I got sent to work through. Becareful as changing the domain can get a bit messy. Good luck.

Place one representation of all clients (doesn’t matter what they backup) in a group called index.

From the command line on the backup server run “savegrp –l full –O index”. That’s a lowercase l and capital O. This will do a full index (only) backup and bootstrap just in case.

Stop the NetWorker services and make them manual.
Perform all sever name/reboots/dns changes.

You may wish flush dns caches around the servers backed up.
Edit the <installdir>\nsr\res\servers file on all clients, storage nodes and the backup server to show the new long name.
Restart all “networker remote exec”services on all clients/nodes to reread the file.
Restart NetWorker and change the services back to auto.

It will add a new client backupserver.new.domain. Configure this to be suitably backed up like the old one. Don’t delete the old one yet. Keep it a month.
Check all the storage node field in all clients for the old name and correct as required. Nsrserverhost is an alias for the backup server that will not need changing.

If any tape device uses the old dns name you will have to delete the jukebox and add it again.

Add the new backup server to the index group. Remove the old. From the command line on the backup server run “savegrp –l full –O index”. (Full backup of indexes under the new name.)

New backup server name will do a full backup when it runs.
Test backups. Permission denied means you got the servers file wrong on the client or didn’t restart the service.