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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.