Ooooo, look at that!

Yep, that’d be a tumbleweed crossing my blog.

Sorry for the lack of post type action over the last few months to say things are hectic would be a complete misuse of the word! Anyway, as a good friend of mine warned an age ago I am indeed finding I’ve got a good number of drafts ready to rock so hopefully I’ll be trickling them out into the wild shortly.

How to repoint Veritas Replication Exec console

Sometimes you’ve just got to move an application to another server. It’s just the way it goes. Unfortunately quite often that means you’ve got to remove / reinstall all the clients …. which can be a pain.

We recently had to migrate the “master server” (otherwise known as the RMS server) for replication exec and change the Replication Neighborhood at the same time. Personally, I really didn’t want to reinstall the console on numerous PC’s and servers so I found the registry keys that do the pointing.

To change the RMS server, alter: HKLM\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\ENL\Network.TCPIP\gateway to the new server name or IP address. You’ll have to restart the Veritas service for this to kick in but it’s a 2 second job.

To change the Replication Neighborhood go to KLM\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\ENL\System\netgroup and alter that to the new name. No service restart required for this one.

Job done.