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Re: [Veritas-bu] Change server list on windows clients.

2009-08-13 16:11:10
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Change server list on windows clients.
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
Check Ed's response to my earlier question,

It appears you can use bpsetconfig to set any parameter on a windows host.

My question was setting the buffer size via command line from the master.

Justin.

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM, A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid I'm rather UNIX-centric.
>>
>> I've recently inherited a large number of windows client that need
>> updates to the media servers that they'll talk to.  Since windows
>> doesn't use a 'bp.conf' file like UNIX, is there some way of scripting
>> an update to the list?  Right now I'm having to do it by hand, logging
>> into each one.  Right now none of the members of the existing list can
>> communicate with the clients (isolated network).  So whatever I'm going
>> to do will have to be local.
>>
>> I'm guessing there's not a single file with this information, but maybe
>> a registry setting or something?
>
>
> As long as your server can reach the client, do the following:
>
> 1.  Create a file with the list of servers just like it normally appears in
> bp.conf (i.e. SERVER = <servername>).  Make sure the master server is listed
> first and put 1 entry per line.
> 2.  bpsetconfig -h $CLIENTNAME $SERVERFILENAME
>
> Check the list with:
> bpgetconfig -M $CLIENTNAME SERVER
>
> That might work from the media server...
>
>    .../Ed
>
> Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
> ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
>
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