Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>> Our master and media servers are on 5.1, most clients are on 5.1 with a 
>> few ancient machines on 4.5.
>>
>> I logged a support call with Verimantec and the response was - nope not 
>> implemented.......sorry!
>>
>> Anyone know how to remotely get the NBU patch level installed on Windows 
>> machines from a UNIX master server?
> 
> It simply can't be done. Various versions have reporting things
> differently.  You'll have different results with bpgetconfig,
> bpcoverage, and using other unsupported hacks, but there is no one
> consistent way to get the versions across all clients.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 

I'll go to my corner and cry now ;-)

Guess I'll report on the UNIX boxes (which seem to play OK with 
bpcoverage and just report the major version number for windows boxes.


Very annoying as to the untrained eye it would seem to be easy to ensure 
that this worked :-(

Thanks for the replies anyway

Sean