Script using nsradmin to create clients

[hermxl1]

Hi,

I need to create about 400 clients on a Solaris Networker server and I've been playing with getting a script to do it, but with my limited scripting skills I've not been successful with getting a $CLIENTNAME variable read into a nsradmin -i commands script.

Does anyone have a simple snippet of a script that successfully passes a variable in the nsradmin script? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Herm

 

[TDun]

Ok, on Unix, this will give you a one liner to create a client. Notice, you would need to do something similar to make other options parameters.

have a script that does:
sed 's/ZZZZZZZZZZ/'$1'/' clientin.param >client1.param
nsradmin -i client1.param

where:

(sunnwserver is the name of your Networker server)

Where clientin.param contains the following commands:

create type:NSR client;
name:ZZZZZZZZZZ;
server:sunnwserver;
schedule:Full;
browse policy:Month;
retention policy:Year;
groupefault;
save set:All;
aliases:ZZZZZZZZZZ;
storage nodes:nsrserverhost;

 

[DavinaTreiber]

This is an example of the syntax I use for this type of script:

CLIENTNAME=whatever

echo "
create type: NSR client;
       name: $CLIENTNAME;
       group: ThisGroup
" | nsradmin -i -

Obviously you'd want to fill a few more fields in but you get the general idea.

 

[hermxl1]

Ok,

The script I have works, but I'm trying to create the clients as members of 2 groups and I get the following error:

create failed: 'DAILY_FRI_UNIX_OFFSUN, OFFSITE_SUN1' invalid choice for 'group', try Default

The file that the script uses for input has the group field delimited as such:

""DAILY_FRI_UNIX_OFFSUN", "OFFSITE_SUN1""

Any ideas on how the group field must have multiple entries separated?

Thanks,

Herm

 

[605]

With my intention to teach, may i just ask you to create such a resource and to have a look at the resource file later? - the GUI does not do anything else in the background.

 

[TDun]

For 2 groups, you need 2 clients defined is what she is trying to say.

 

[DavinaTreiber]

I don't think anyone is saying you need two clients. It's not true anyway, one client resource can be associated to two groups. This snippet of code will do it:

echo "
create type: NSR client;
       name: $CLIENTNAME;
       group: ThisGroup, ThatGroup
" | nsradmin -i -

 

[hermxl1]

Thanks Davina,

But that was one of the first things I tried and it didn't work either. I got a different error message saying that it was an unterminated field.

I gave up though, and just ran the script with only 1 group per client and I'll add the additional group from the GUI later.

Thanks for the help everyone...

Herman

 

[DavinaTreiber]

Looks like you're getting bogged down in syntax. Notice that my group line is the last one, hence no semi-colon. If I had added further lines every one except the last would end in a semi-colon. Was this your problem?

 

[hermxl1]

Nope,

I tried moving the group from the middle to the end, with and without the ";" Too much effort in this for a simple function.

Thanks for the help...