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* Bobby Williams <Bobby.Williams AT gtsi DOT com> [2004-12-03 16:49]:
> Master servers are all Solaris 2.8 running NB4.5MP6.
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> I have several Master Servers (geographically separated) that have
> multiple policies on it.  Some of the Clients have had OS upgrades
> (Solaris upgrades and NT to W2K upgrades).
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> When I try to push out new software to update the clients, I am getting
> errors because they are defined by system/OS type in the multiple
> policies. =20
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> If I go to each Master server and try to update the client information,
> I have to wait for gui screen refreshes and it gets to be a real pain.
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> Is there a file on the Master that I can edit to update the clients all
> at once?
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> I know that I can use bpadm, but that is getting to be a typing exercise
> also.

You can use the bpplclients command to change client info in a policy.
All you need to do is script what policies a client is in and then set
the client info. A rough example would be:

# to get a list of policies that a client is in
bppllist -byclient client | gawk '/^CLASS/{print $2}'

# for each policy from the previous command, update the client
bpplclients policy -modify client -hardware hardware -os os
(e.g. bpplclients some policy -modify client -hardware Solaris -os Solaris8=
 )

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David Rock
david AT graniteweb DOT com

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