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Assign Alias Name

Symptom

The Agent Technology Oracle Agent node with alias name is very long.

Solution

You can also back up your Agent Technology Oracle Agent node with alias name. For example, if the node name is long and you want to use a different name for it in backup manager perform the following steps before you can successfully do a backup and restore.

To change host name

1. In the sbt.cfg file on your Agent Technology Oracle Agent computer,

   SBT_SOURCE_NAME=alias
   

   SBT_ORIGINAL_CLIENT_HOST=alias
   

   where

   Alias is the name you specify for the Oracle Agent node in Arcserve Backup Manager

   SBT_SOURCE_NAME is the name which you used in Backup manager for the U/L Oracle agent node to do the backup.

   SBT_ORIGINAL_CLIENT_HOST is the node name which was used in backup and restore process.

2. Save the change and run caagent update the node name.