Hi Tom,
On 07/05/2009, at 22:36 , Tom Birkenbach wrote:
How do I easily add all my clients to one group?
I'm thinking it's an ability in nsradmin where I select clients and
update
the group attribute, but I can't get the coding right. I started
doing this
manually in the GUI, but I have over 250 clients and this probably
won't be
the last time I'll want to do some mass group editing. I tried in
the GUI
to select all my client and drag them to my new "All" group, but it
didn't
work, despite this being noted as an ability in the GUI.
Assuming there's only one instance of each client, you could do:
nsradmin -s server
nsradmin> . type: NSR client
nsradmin> append group: newGroupName
the "append" option will tack it on to the end of each list of
group(s) for the client.
If you have multiple client instances, it will fail on the non-first
instance for each client. (I.e., if one client instance has been added
to a group, other instances of the same client won't be added.)
If you save:
. type: NSR client
append group: newGroupName
to a file, then invoke:
nsradmin -s server -i file
You won't be prompted for confirmation for each client update.
Note, I don't think append came in until around 7.3, so if you're
using an older server, don't try the above; and the usual caveat
applies - if you're not well versed at nsradmin, it's a good idea to
practice this first or have a bootstrap. Or to be more specific,
nsradmin allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, so be careful and
ensure you have a current bootstrap.
How do you practice this first? Easy - take a copy of the entire /nsr/
res directory - let's assume you put it in /tmp/nsr/res
You could then run:
nsradmin -d /tmp/nsr/res/nsrdb -i file
Which will run the update against the temp copy. Then run:
nsradmin -d /tmp/nsr/res/nsrdb
and do some "print type: NSR client" style checks to make sure the
command worked successfully. If it did, move on to running against the
actual server.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Preston.
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