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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Configuration options for NetBackup servers
  6. PREFERRED_NETWORK option for NetBackup servers
  7. source[/subnet]
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

source[/subnet]

source[/subnet] is optional and indicates a host name or IP address range that is requested to be used as the local interface for outbound connection to addresses in the target.

source[/subnet] is applicable to the directives ONLY and MATCH, but not to the directive PROHIBITED.

Notes:

  • The operating system may not honor the source request.

  • NetBackup does not request a source which has already been PROHIBITED.

  • A host or network name that cannot be resolved, or that is not local to the host, is ignored, but the evaluation status of the target is still used.

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