Oops, sent it to the wrong person. ;)

You could try playing with this script to see if it helps any. It only
works for Windoze boxes, running from a unix media/master server, but
could be adapted to unix or other. Let me know if it helps any.

############ Cut here get_version ##################
#!/usr/bin/ksh

# Make sure there is a client specified
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
        echo "usage:
                $0 client_name"
        exit 1
fi

# Try to generate the client list only once. Sometime it can take a long
time
if [ ! -f /tmp/client.list ]
then
        bpplclients -allunique -noheader > /tmp/client.list
fi

client=$1

grep -w $client /tmp/client.list | tail -1 | read HW OS CLIENT

# If CLIENT is empty, then the client is known to NetBackup
if [ -z "$CLIENT" ]
then
        echo "Client $client not found"
        exit 2
fi

ext=""
typeset -l os=${OS%%s*}
if [ ${os} == "window" ]
then
        DIR=
else
        echo "This script is only for Windows clients"
        exit 3
fi

integer found=-39

bpdir -M $client /$DIR | \
       grep -i "<dir>" | \
    awk '{ print $NF }'| \
while read DIR
do
        found=$( bpdir -M $client /$DIR | \
                egrep -ic "veritas" )
        if [ found -gt 0 ]
        then
                ffound=$(bpdir -M $client /$DIR/veritas/netbackup | \
                grep -c version.txt )
                bpgp from $client \
                        /$DIR/veritas/netbackup/version.txt \
                        /tmp/$client.txt
                cat /tmp/$client.txt
                exit
                
        fi
done

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Mansell,
Richard
Sent: 23 April 2006 21:49
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level



 FWIW, the Windows admin console in 6.0 reports the client version for
Windows clients. We are only running 6.0 at the moment so I don't know
if it will report the version for pre-6 clients.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Sean
Clarke
Sent: Sunday, 23 April 2006 8:51 pm
To: Sean Clarke; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote:
.... 
> 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
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