Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level

2006-04-20 00:36:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level
From: David Rock <dave-bu AT graniteweb DOT com> (David Rock)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:36:11 -0500
* Sean Clarke <sean_clarke AT softhome DOT net> [2006-04-19 23:42]:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am in the process of writing a script to audit the Netbackup versions 
> installed on our clients and to generate alerts of our current standard 
> version is not installed. This was done via a spreadsheet until I found 
> a box with 3.2 on it and decided that enough was enough :-(
> 
> For our UNIX/Linux boxes this can be done using a loop over the output 
> of bpclclients that calls bpcoverage. However what I have noticed for 
> Windows clients is that it only reports the version number and not the 
> patch level (apart from a couple of NT4 boxes on 4.5FP6 bizarrely).

You should be able to get that with bpcoverage, but I have also noticed
that bpcoverage seems to be broken at certain versions of 5.1

You can try bpgetconfig instead

bpgetconfig -M clientname

-- 
David Rock
david AT graniteweb DOT com