[Veritas-bu] add_slave_on_clients
2007-03-15 20:01:44
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[Veritas-bu] add_slave_on_clients |
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dave-bu at graniteweb.com (David Rock) |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:01:44 -0500 |
* Bob Stump <StumpB at michigan.gov> [2007-03-15 11:10]:
> Hi Patrick,
> If I remember right, when you and I were with OpenVision/VERITAS
> ancient days ago, the add_slave_on_client running on the master could
> be used to update all of the UNIX clients with a new media server
> name. It wouldn't need any parameters. If anyone still has a NetBackup
> 3.4 then they could verify the bourne shell script. Unfortunately it
> is now an executable :-(
>
> Basically it used "bpgp" to collect all of the UNIX bp.conf files onto
> the master and grepped for "SERVER = " and appended the new server as
> "SERVER = NEWSERVERNAME". The it again used bpgp to push the bp.conf
> back to the client. It always looked nasty because you then had
> multiple entries for media servers in the new file. They should have
> done a sort -u or something.
If that's what it does, then using bpsetconfig is probably a better
option. You have better control over what actually gets updated that
way.
--
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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