remote administration Powerpath

What OS's do you have PowerPath on in your environment? If it is mainly Windows there is a PowerPath Viewer App in test at the moment...

what OS ?

Well, we use Powerpath on Windows 2003 server only.

take a look at "psexec" utility, it allows you to run commands on remote systems. You could write a script that would use psexec to execute powermt command and pipe output to a UNC path somewhere.

Can you be more specific about the location?

A search for "Powerpath Viewer" returns no results.

Regards,

Bart

Have a look at 'PowerPath Viewer 1.0 SP1', which has been released on Powerlink.

Aubrey Murnaghan EMC TSE2

sincere appologies but it looks like this product has not been released by Engineering yet.

I'll update this thread once it has been released with the location,

aubrey TS2

You could use the mmc snap in to connect to other servers. You have to do it from a server that has powerpath installed. I created this little hack of vbscript when we were seeing dead paths after SP reboots. It asks you for your credentials (domain, username and password) and adds all the hosts found in c:\hosts.txt file (1 server per line). I also add disk management, this way if there is a path issue you can rescan and fix it that way. I call it a hack since it uses sendkeys, so don't touch anything while it runs .

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("c:\hosts.txt", ForReading)

Const ForReading = 1

Dim array_hosts()
i = 0
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
Redim Preserve array_hosts(i)
array_hosts(i) = objFile.ReadLine
i = i + 1
Loop

Dim username, password

domain = InputBox("Enter the domain")
username = InputBox("Enter your username")
password = InputBox("Enter your password")

objFile.Close

' Create the MMC Application object.
Dim WshShell, objMMC, objNode, View, listitem, host, StdIn, fso
Set objMMC = Wscript.CreateObject("MMC20.Application")

' Show the MMC application.
objMMC.Show

Set StdIn = WScript.StdIn
i = i - 1

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

For j=0 to i

WshShell.Sendkeys "(%F)"
WshShell.Sendkeys "M"
WshShell.Sendkeys "(%D)"
WshShell.Sendkeys "P"
WshShell.Sendkeys "o"
WshShell.Sendkeys "(%A)"
WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.Sendkeys array_hosts(j)
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.SendKeys username
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.SendKeys domain
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.SendKeys password
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

WshShell.SendKeys "(%C)"
WshShell.Sendkeys "(%D)"
WshShell.Sendkeys "Disk Management"
WshShell.Sendkeys "(%A)"

WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
WshShell.Sendkeys array_hosts(j)
WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
WshShell.SendKeys "(%C)"
WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

Next

WshShell.SendKeys "(%C)"
WshShell.Sendkeys "{ENTER}"

' Leave the MMC application in user control when this script ends.

objMMC.UserControl = 1
password = "garabe data"

wscript.echo "Script Complete"

do we know when this app will come out?

Hello. I believe you are referring to PowePath Viewer. It is scheduled to be available in June.

Thanks, Brion

Brion Stultz

EMC Corporate Systems Engineer

(cell) 508 498 4806

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cool! thanks!

Found the silent install instructions in the release notes, page 19.

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