I'm not the biggest fan of perl in terms of "best" language... but I do have
to agree with Howie...  Perl is definitely a way to go for driving the
NetWorker commands and seems to be the language of choice for NetWorker.
(Somehow I still manage to do almost everything I need in bourne)

However if you're very familiar with PowerShell you could probably write
some very cool functions to handle NetWorker output, but there won't be much
useful out in the NetWorker world to you for that.  And you know M$ every
update to the OS could knock out your PowerShell interface with a language
change.

Alec

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Howie Jock <Jock.Howie AT nzpost.co DOT nz> 
wrote:

> Wallace
>
> My two cents worth would be that if you can run commands like nsrmm,
> nsrjb and mminfo in Powershell scripts, capture and process the output
> and then execute the commands that you need to automate the things
> you're doing everyday - then Powershell is the way to go.
>
> However I suspect you will find that Perl, with its Unix system admin
> heritage, offers the best bridge to transfer the wisdom of forums such
> as this to automating your Windows environment.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Networker] Powershell with networker
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm not much of a unix admin, so we run our NetWorker on Windows. I'm
> looking into using powershell to make life easier.
>
> Is anyone out there using powershell to automate things in networker or
> working with reports?
>
> I'm just wandering if it's worth going down that road?
>
> Wallace
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