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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2765.0. "Changing Nodename in ALL-IN-1" by HPOP03::TROTTI () Thu May 27 1993 19:53

Does anyone have a procedure that will change the DECnet Nodename and 
Address of a system which is running ALL-IN-1 3.0 , Message Router 3.2.

If not, are there any gotchas to look out for if I were to write them
myself.

thanks

Mike
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2765.1When you do it tell us how!AIMTEC::WICKS_AAlphatraz - Coming Summer 93Thu May 27 1993 20:0711
    Mike,
    
    isn't this really a DECnet or Message Router question - ALL-IN-1 doesn't
    care about the address per se though changing the name may affect
    things such as the File Cab Server, DDS, Network.Dat ...
    
    have never been daft enough to do this myself of course (:==:)
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
2765.2It's alot of work for nothingBUSHIE::SETHIAhhhh (-: an upside down smile from OZFri May 28 1993 01:3818
    Mike,
    
    You are on to a good hiding for nothing there is alot of work involved
    if you have MAILbus involved (esp. DDS).  The time consuming bit will
    be DDS you may have to re-install it saves time from what I can
    remember.
    
    A customer did exactly what you wanted to do and DDS was causing all
    sorts of problem.  In the end with the help of a MAILbus expert we
    asked the customer to re-install DDS and than re-populate the database. 
    the re-populating took along time.
    
    As Andrew has said check in FORTY2::MAILBUS to save you time and
    effort.
    
    Regards,
         
    Sunil
2765.3FCS caresCHRLIE::HUSTONFri May 28 1993 15:4020
    
    You will need to re-seed the partition.dat, and anyone who is a 
    remote user who has a drawer in there filecabinet, and the 
    drawer lives on the system that is changing (not clear, but wait)
    will need to remove and re-add the drawer.
    
    Example.
    
    I live on nodeA, on nodeB there is a shared drawer which I have in
    my filecabinet. You now change nodeB to nodeC. I have to remove 
    teh drawer nodeB::drawer_name from my filecabinet, and re-add it
    as nodeC::drawer_name.
    
    Better now?
    
    Also, the FCS will have to be restarted for it to pick up the new node
    name.
    
    --Bob
2765.4Anything else?BACHUS::WOODI couldn't resist the fish!Tue Aug 10 1993 09:485
Is it neccasery to delete Partion.dat create a new one and then reseed, or
do you only need to reseed? (ie OAFC$PART_SEED.SCP)

Cheers,
Andy
2765.5Just reseed -- don't delete partition.datCHRLIE::HUSTONTue Aug 10 1993 15:518
    
    If you delete partition.dat you will loose any drawers that users
    have created, partition seeding only puts the main drawers in.
    
    You can fix this by running partititon seeding over again.
    
    --Bob