Switching console between two BES Servers

(imported topic written by cemmel91)

We have two BES Servers, one in our QA environment, and one in our Production environment. To get to the QA environment, I term serv into the BES Server and launch the Console from there, and for production, I have the Console installed locally and configured to point to the Production BES Server. This works, but it would be nice if there was a way to access both the QA and Production BES Servers from a single Console installed locally. Has anyone been able to get this to work by having multiple ODBCs on the same machine or by using a VBScript to toggle ODBCs? If so, can you post your findings?

(imported comment written by Doug_Coburn)

Hello cemmel,

The BES Console supports using multiple DSNs out of the box. You can only have one active console for a DSN in your user sessions but you can define multiple DSNs in the ODBC configuration. When launching the BES Console will recognize any user or system DSNs that start with the prefix of bes_. For example you could have a DSN for bes_production and bes_qa. This way when you open the BES Console you will have two choices in the drop down box, one for production and one for qa.

Doug

(imported comment written by cemmel91)

That worked perfectly. Thanks Doug.