Are you being able to connect to the database using the MS-SQL client from the AR Server machine? If so, are the database username/passwords the same as it was on the parent instance? If you are not sure you can try resetting the ARAdmin user's password to AR#Admin# and take off the DB-Password configuration line from the ar.cfg file. Then try restarting the services. Not having the password line in the configuraton file, the system assumes the default password and attempts to connect using that.. Joe
----- Original Message ---- From: Tim O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:57:18 PM Subject: Pointing AR Server to DB Server I have a working AR server on one machine that is using an MS SQL backend on a different machine. Recently, I had one of our lab engineers clone these two machines into VMs so we can create dev and test instances on our ESX farm. I'm having a real hard time taking the AR system clones and pointing them to their respective database system clones. From reading documentation, it sounds like all I need to do is alter ar.cfg to point sybase-server-name (configuration parameter used for Sybase and MSSQL dbs) to the new hostname and restart the AR server, but when I do that arerror.log in the cloned AR systems is telling me they aren't able to talk to the cloned database systems. I've searched BMC documentation but I can't find anything that explains the process. Can anyone give me some hints or provide me with a basic checklist for performing such an operation? _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
