NSRADMIN scripting to determine datazone passphrase

Hi,

I suspect the discrepancy in behaviour may be something to do with the running of nsradmin in online mode or in offline mode in the two scenarios.    If I were you, I'd do a connection check at the start of the script on each of the machines and develop a list of ok hosts.  Then run the nsradmin command against each host on the list.

-Bobby

Firstly thank you for the reply Bobby!

I had considered something along these lines, initially thinking that a simple ping test to each node might do, but then determined I would also need to ensure that the networker services are running, that they can be contacted i.e. no firewall blocking.

I was therefore hoping to solve the underlying issue of why / how the nsradmin command appears to be caching the last node that a command ran on rather than return the "can't bind to server" message that it returns when run directly from command line.

Is there a way of clearing out  the results between queries, for example,

server abc

show datazone pass phrase
print type: nsr

[ clear query ]

server def

show datazone pass phrase
print type: nsr

[ clear query ]

server xyz

show datazone pass phrase
print type: nsr

[ clear query ]

quit

If not may have to look at changing or abandoning use of import file.

tMarquee

Hi,

Why would your storage nodes have different datazone pass phrases?   I thought the pass phrase was per datazone.

If you were to test the connectivity, then rpcinfo would be better than ping, but I understand why you don't want to do that.  If you suspect that nsradmin is caching results, then you could try running the nsradmin command as a single line from your script like this:

printf "show datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - > pass_phrase_output.txt

-Bobby

Then just do:

printf "show datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - -s

printf "show datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - -s

printf "show datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - -s

printf "show datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - -s

etc...

Agree with Bobby.. this is set per datazone thus no need to query storage nodes.

Unfortunately rightly or wrongly we do have several datazones each with a storage node backing up that zone.

We only use a centralised Enterprise management console to administer and monitor the organisations backups across these zones.

So to set or check a passphrase we woudl still need to manually select each node listed and launch networker console and the networker management console.and then click Properties and check under configuration tab.

The script was intended to avoid this process by automating a check for each node and confirming the password and email us a summary, so that if it has been changed for any reason we have time to correct it before that evening's backups run.

tMarquee

Bobby / Hrvoje,

Pardon my ignorance but the script we have is a VBS / VB script and not aware of a single equivelant command to printf in this language.

But will look at this route as this sounds exactly what i'm after.

tMarquee

Try to use echo instead of printf... I admit that on Windows it might be different as I use UNIX, but at least printf part I'm sure can be replaced with echo command.

Sorry for the delay in posting back on this.

I have just tried several variations of using echo to pipe the query to the NSRADMIN command and in turn direct the output to a text file but I cannot see any way on a windows o/s to replicate the printf functionality.

For instance:

echo "print datazone pass phrase \n print type : NSR \n" | nsradmin -i - -s test

returns: -

unknown command: "show"

Just to reiterate what I am trying to achieve ...

• We have for arguments sake 10 sites.
• Each site hosts a backup server which backs up itself and for arguments sake 10 others clients.
• One of the 10 servers is used as our Enterprise NetWorker Management Console; so listed under our orgnisation in this NMC we see our 10 servers.
• Each server listed in this manner has it's own datazone pass phrase.

We need a way to automatically interogate each server in turn to retrieve the current pass phrase so that we can ensure it is correct, we want to do this via use of a script that can be schedule via Windows Task Scheduler on the NMC machine, which has access through any firewalls, security, etc o all other servers.

Setting password to blah.

C:\>nsradmin

NetWorker administration program.

Use the "help" command for help.

nsradmin> show datazone pass phrase

nsradmin> print type: NSR

        datazone pass phrase: ;

nsradmin> update datazone pass phrase: blah

        datazone pass phrase: blah;

Update? Yes

updated resource id 2.0.8.23.0.0.0.0.189.195.132.78.0.0.0.0.10.130.3.148(67)

nsradmin> q

Querying the password:

C:\>nsradmin -s hcrvelin -i input.txt

        datazone pass phrase: blah;

Input file is:

C:\>type input.txt

show datazone pass phrase

print type: NSR

Important: after second line you must press so that you have extra blank line.  If you do not do that then you will get an error like:

C:\>nsradmin -s hcrvelin -i input.txt

Resource parse error: Unexpected end of input

type: NSR         ^

usage: print [query] (set current query)