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  2. NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Managing media servers
  5. About the vm.conf configuration file
  6. Host name precedence in the vm.conf file
NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Host name precedence in the vm.conf file

NetBackup identifies the media server by using the following name precedence:

  • CLUSTER_NAME entry if present in vm.conf.

  • MM_SERVER_NAME entry if present in vm.conf.

  • REQUIRED_INTERFACE entry if present in vm.conf.

  • The name of the host in the Server host properties of the master server.

  • gethostname() name.

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