> I have an idea of how to do this with nsradmin but I thought I'd see if
> anyone can save me the time if it's already been done.
> 
> I'd like to feed a list of hostnames into a script and have the script
> create client definitions for me using nsradmin.  Ideally the script would
> also assign each new hostname to a preset group, with a preset browse and
> retention policy, and with preset directives and all that stuff as well.

Yup.  Lots of times.

Just have the script punch out a text file and either save it for you to
review or if you're happy with it, directly to nsradmin.

I usually change more of the script depending on what data I'm passing
so it's not anything I keep around.  Here's some perl code off the top
of my head...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<>)   # read in client data
{
  my ($hostname,$schedule,$group) = split;  # Change to reflect your data

  print "create type: NSR client;\n";
  print "name: $hostname;\n";
  print "group: $group;\n";
  print "schedule: $schedule;\n";
  print "retention policy: one year\n;";
  print "browse policy: one month\n;";
  # any other bits you want...
  print "\n";
}

% perl make_clients < client_info > nsradmin_input
# nsradmin -i nsradmin_inpput

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