Networker

Re: [Networker] nsradmin weirdness

2007-08-15 18:53:29
Subject: Re: [Networker] nsradmin weirdness
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:49:41 -0700
> If I run an nsradmin query for each of the clients, say something like 
> 'print type: NSR client; name: client' then I notice that it reports ';' 
> for the group name for the clients. This is exactly what I would expect 
> to see when there are no groups selected, so that jibes with reality 
> since these clients have no groups selected. However, when I run 'print 
> type: NSR client; group: group_name' these clients still get reported, 
> but the group name that reports is still ';'. Very odd. The one client 
> that is in fact a member of the group does report which makes sense, but 
> it's almost as if NetWorker is just reporting these other clients 
> because they're not members of any group which makes no sense. 
> Furthermore, there are some other clients that are not members of any 
> groups, but those are not reported.

You've stumped me.  Sounds like a bug, but not exactly like any I've run
into....  And since the actual display is correct, it doesn't sound like
a corruption, just that nsradmin is doing the wrong sort of selection
process. 

> I also ran the last command for every active group, and only the correct 
> clients are reported for those groups, so it's just this one group that 
> seems to be the problem.

Any odd characters/spaces/etc in the group name?

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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