This works on on Windows and *nix, provided the proper "Legato name
resolution" is setup.

echo print type: NSRLA | nsradmin -s host -v1 -p 390113 -i -  2>&1

On 1/25/06, Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com> wrote:
>
> I occasionally have backup responsibility for backing up machines
> that I don't have a login on.  Sometimes I need to do a quick sanity
> check on hosts.  Is there a quick way to ask the remote nsrexecd what
> it's hostname is?
>
> I can do a whole setup and fire off a probe savegroup, but that's a bit
> of work if I could replace it with a simple one-liner.  I seem to
> remember that I could just use a simple nsrexec call from the server to
> gather the general info from a client (hostname, OS, version, etc.) but
> I didn't manage to find it in the archives.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT 
> com
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