[Info-vax] Changing VMS node name

[Ken Fairfield]

On Monday, April 9, 2012 9:35:36 AM UTC-7, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> I accidentally mis-entered a node name because my terminal emulation
> wasn't quite right and using the backspace just screwed up the node name
> for my OpenVMS 6.2 installation under simh-vax. 
> 
> I then looked at the docs (Hofflabs,HP etc) for renaming the node name,
> but despite trying everything my node name still remains the same. 
> 
> Is there a definitive step by step guide for renaming a node? 

The VMS docset does, indeed, tell you everything you need 
to do to change your node name.  It would help to know 
whether you've installed and configured DECnet IV, DECnet V,
and or TCP/IP services?  Is your Simh VAX clustered?

The minimum starting point is to edit MODPARAMS.DAT to get
rid of any spurious characters in the SCSNODE specification,
then Autogen and reboot.

It's been a while (quite a while!), so the following is
from faulty memory: if you're running DECnet IV, you'll need
to update the executer node name, i.e., in NCP.  Similarly,
if TCP/IP is installed, you need to find where the hostname is
set and correct it.

  HTH, Ken