Hello all,

"automating the creation of multiple clients on a new nsrhost" is a nice
thing to do. Are there any ways we can do this on Windows based networker
server also?!

Regards
Shyam


On 4/27/06, Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com> wrote:
>
> > I have an idea of how to do this with nsradmin but I thought I'd see if
> > anyone can save me the time if it's already been done.
> >
> > I'd like to feed a list of hostnames into a script and have the script
> > create client definitions for me using nsradmin.  Ideally the script
> would
> > also assign each new hostname to a preset group, with a preset browse
> and
> > retention policy, and with preset directives and all that stuff as well.
>
> Yup.  Lots of times.
>
> Just have the script punch out a text file and either save it for you to
> review or if you're happy with it, directly to nsradmin.
>
> I usually change more of the script depending on what data I'm passing
> so it's not anything I keep around.  Here's some perl code off the top
> of my head...
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> while (<>)   # read in client data
> {
> my ($hostname,$schedule,$group) = split;  # Change to reflect your data
>
> print "create type: NSR client;\n";
> print "name: $hostname;\n";
> print "group: $group;\n";
> print "schedule: $schedule;\n";
> print "retention policy: one year\n;";
> print "browse policy: one month\n;";
> # any other bits you want...
> print "\n";
> }
>
> % perl make_clients < client_info > nsradmin_input
> # nsradmin -i nsradmin_inpput
>
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> com
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