In regard to: Re: [Networker] Linux does not report the client version in...:

Tim,
Thank you very much.
You really saved me.

You're welcome -- Davina was the one that provided the real value, by
posting the original 'ask the client directly' trick a few years ago.
I just turned it into a script that's easy to run.

BTW, I had forgotten until I looked through my nsr utility scripts that
I actually have a script to report the client OS and version.  It doesn't
contact the client directly, though -- it goes against what the server has
on record.  That would be easy to fix, though.  It requires perl rather
than straight shell, since formatted output is a little easier with perl.

Tim
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Author: Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu>

use strict;
use POSIX qw(tmpnam);
if ($#ARGV > -1) {
        print STDERR "$0: usage: nsr_osver_list\n";
        exit(1);
}

use vars qw($line $current_client $current_os $tmpfile $nsradmin_cmd
        $current_version);

$nsradmin_cmd = '/usr/sbin/nsradmin';

#
# TVM: feed the following to nsradmin.
#
$tmpfile = POSIX::tmpnam();

open(QFILE, ">$tmpfile") or die "Can't create temporary file $tmpfile: $!\n";

print QFILE 'option Dynamic', "\n";
print QFILE 'option Hidden', "\n";
print QFILE '. type: NSR Client', "\n";
print QFILE 'show Name; client OS type; NetWorker version', "\n";
print QFILE 'print', "\n";
close(QFILE) or die "close failed for $tmpfile: $!\n";

#
# Now run nsradmin with this query.
#
open(NSRADMIN, "$nsradmin_cmd -i $tmpfile |") or
        die "Can't pipe from nsradmin: $!\n";

while (defined($line=<NSRADMIN>)) {

        chomp($line);

        #print "$line\n";

        if ($line =~ /^\s*name: (.*);\s*$/i) {
                $current_client = $1;
        }

        if ($line =~ /^\s*NetWorker version: (.*);\s*$/i) {
                $current_version = $1;
        } elsif ($line =~ /^\s*client OS type: (.*);\s*$/i) {
                $current_os = $1;
        }

        if ( ($line =~ /^\s*$/) and (defined($current_client) ) ) {
                printf "%-35.35s %-25.25s %s\n", "$current_client",
                                "$current_os", "$current_version";

                undef($current_client);
                $current_version="";
                $current_os="";
        }
}

close(NSRADMIN) or
        print STDERR "$0: $nsradmin_cmd returned $?: $!\n";
#unlink($tmpfile);

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