Platform: MOSS 2007
So, when my predecessor set up this 2 machine farm (1 machine sharepoint, 1 machine sql server), he used some sort of alias for the machine. That is, Central Admin reports the name of the sql server as PRODSQL. This is not the name of any server here. Whatever kind of name this is somehow is communicating both the machine name and the instance.
The farm is running just fine - updating the appropriate machine and instance.
However, an analysis tool used by Microsoft is reporting a problem accessing the sql data and we are assuming this is because it is trying to use the literal name rather than the symbolic name.
Is it safe to just put the real machine name and instance in central admin and click ok? This won't trigger a reset or anything, will it?