John

   The method to enter the information is pretty much under control, my problem 
is how to get the specific info required automatically.

   The method to get the info into the database will go something like this.....

1)  A script, BAT file (what ever is suitable) is run to generate the base 
information.

2) The information is usually verbose and needs to be reduced, In the case of 
NT I used REXX (the rexx executable from the resource kit).  

3) The reduced report is FTP'd to the TSM server

4)  On the TSm server  a second file pertaining to the client exists which 
contains info that I am unable to get dynamically (usually there because I do 
not know how to get it rather than not be possible to find). A script (Korn 
shell in our case)  will concatenate the two reports and generate the 
appropriate TSM batch commands.


I am yet to decide if a client schedule (CMD) should be used to generate the 
dynamic report & ftp process to if I should run it as a post process of the 
incr backup.

The loading of the info into the database via the ksh script will be executed a 
step in the backup db & prepare script



Peter

>>> Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM 05/03/01 06:54am >>>
Pete,
  I too have toyed with this concept but never really come up with anything
concrete. The winmsd command will extract a lot of information to a text
file. This would be nice to import into the DRM feature of TSM, but how? If
we can find a way to pump the output of winmsd into DRM via pre and post
backup commands, we may have something here!!!

  Please, keep me informed and I will do the same.

John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
The Timken Company            Global Software Support
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