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Re: [Networker] Powershell with networker

2009-09-09 00:03:22
Subject: Re: [Networker] Powershell with networker
From: "Joe N. Wallace" <joe.n.wallace AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:58:42 +1000
So is anyone here using powershell to control any networker tasks, functions
or reporting?

Or is it only perl?

Wallace

2009/9/9 Anacreo <anacreo AT gmail DOT com>

> 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-----
> > From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT 
> > EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Wallace
> > Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 3:38 p.m.
> > To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > 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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