nsradmin anyone?

Good stuff Allan, thanks!

Below are your questions.  A few from the manuals and a couple for fun.

1) What is captured in the nsrla.res file ?

2) Which nsradmin commands would you use to change the success threshold for Group “Windows”?

3) How would you use nsradmin to globally change the retention period for all 10 clients in Group “Windows” from 30 days to 45 days?

4) The person that prepared the micromanual is terrified of something, what is it?

5) What does "nsr" stand for?

Answer as many as you can.  Winner will be picked based on number of questions answered along with content. Winner will receive an EMC water bottle and memory stick. 

Don't hesitate to post even if someone posted before you.  Winner will be announced on Wednesday (27th), 1pm Eastern Time. 

Thanks and have fun!

Allan

Message was edited by: AllanW- rule edit!

I hope everyone is holding out!  I edited the rules a bit to open it up a bit more.

Allan

I just wanted to note that there's an error on page 7 of the EMC nsradmin technote, which if used, could disable all devices within an environment.

The section "Listing all devices in service mode" on page 7 instead actually provides instructions which would put all devices in service mode – particularly if done automatically from a script.

I'd suggest this gets fixed.

Thanks Preston!

Allan

By the way, I thought you would at least answer #4 of the quiz above? 

I'm giving a perfect score on those answers!  I'll also try to answer the error you pointed out above.  How would- nsradmin> Show name; enabled:Service

sound to you as a replacement?

Allan

Ah now I thought I would have been excluded on the grounds of having "insider" knowledge on that question.

So if you'd like, here are my answers:

1. What is captured in in the nsrla.res file?

Well, nothing these days since everyone's using a modern enough version of NetWorker that nsrla.res is no longer in use, right? :-)

Instead we look at the nsrladb database, which contains:

- Port information

- Peer information

- Log file details

- Client identification/installed software/etc details (NSRLA)

(Just to name a few)

2. Which nsradmin commands would you use to change the threshold for group "Windows"?

Well, I'd use different group names to that, but...

nsradmin> show name:; success threshold:

nsradmin> print type: NSR group; name: Windows

nsradmin> update success threshold: Success

3. What would you use nsradmin to globally change the retention period for all ten clients in Group Windows from 30 days to 45 days.

Assuming I had a policy named "45days", I'd use the command:

nsradmin> show name:; retention policy:

nsradmin> print type: NSR client; group: Windows

nsradmin> update retention policy: 45days

Note though that this would only affect new backups for clients in this group. For previous backups, you've got a lot of nsrmm commands to run :-)

4. The person that prepared the micromanual is terrified of something, what is it?

Zombies. They scare the hell out of me. Can't watch movies with them in it, and even had a few nightmares while reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Though I think I'm going to have to force myself to sit through Shaun of the Dead as an intro, since now that I've heard they're doing a movie version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I'll have to somehow make myself go to that...

5. What does "nsr" stand for?

I'd always heard "network save (and) restore". As long as it doesn't stand for anything involving zombies, I'm happy though.

How did I go?

Hi Allan,

The command on page 7 should be:

nsradmin> show name:

nsradmin> print type: NSR device; enabled: Service

This would print the names of devices that are in a "service mode" state.

Cheers,

Preston.