Rename ePO Server

[McTech]

Due to a change in naming conventions I need to rename my ePO server. After scanning through the documentation and NAI's knowledge base, I have a question..... Is there any way to do this without having to reload ePO?

 

[TheWOneAndOnly]

got any replies yet?
I'm dealing with the save issue

 

[JimmyZ1]

you can make a pointer on your DNS server that will point it to the correct spot. I think as long as the IP stays the same it shouldn't matter... I might be wrong about that.

Doh!!

 

[McTech]

To answer the first question - I never had any response prior to today, and I did eventually rename the server. ePO promptly quit working even though it was the same machine, same IP address - the only thing changed was the computer name. I changed the computer name back to the original and it started working again. There must be something in the database that has to change as well.

My understanding is that if I installed ePO fresh on a new server and gave the new server the same IP address as the old one (turn off the old one, of course), the clients would find the new server and all would be well. This goes right along with my theory that there is something in the database that gets confused when just renaming the server.

Thanx for your interest and good luck....dj
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood!"

 

[VictorySabre]

I do not know for sure, but I think the clients are set to search for the ePO Server by NetBIOS name first and should that fail, it then searches by DNS/IP address.

After changing your server's name, have you tried an agent wakeup call and what happens? Do the agents still have communications problems (looking at the ePO Agent log report

http://agentname:8081)

If that still fails, try pushing out/redeploying the ePO Agent from the ePO Server to one test PC and see if it re-establishes communications. (I hope you don't have a lot to do)

Let us know how things go, in case we need to do the same as well.

 

[bfralia]

After you renamed the server did you rename the database to ePO-DBname?

 

[McTech]

I did not. Since the plan was to build a new server, I just renamed the server back to its original name. Since it worked again, I didn't worry about it any more. After I get the new one up and running, I might just try that to see if it works - but since it's not currently broken, I don't think I'll try to fix it!