John The method to enter the information is pretty much under control, my problem is how to get the specific info required automatically. The method to get the info into the database will go something like this..... 1) A script, BAT file (what ever is suitable) is run to generate the base information. 2) The information is usually verbose and needs to be reduced, In the case of NT I used REXX (the rexx executable from the resource kit). 3) The reduced report is FTP'd to the TSM server 4) On the TSm server a second file pertaining to the client exists which contains info that I am unable to get dynamically (usually there because I do not know how to get it rather than not be possible to find). A script (Korn shell in our case) will concatenate the two reports and generate the appropriate TSM batch commands. I am yet to decide if a client schedule (CMD) should be used to generate the dynamic report & ftp process to if I should run it as a post process of the incr backup. The loading of the info into the database via the ksh script will be executed a step in the backup db & prepare script Peter >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 06:54am >>> Pete, I too have toyed with this concept but never really come up with anything concrete. The winmsd command will extract a lot of information to a text file. This would be nice to import into the DRM feature of TSM, but how? If we can find a way to pump the output of winmsd into DRM via pre and post backup commands, we may have something here!!! Please, keep me informed and I will do the same. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company Global Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -----Original Message----- From: PETER GRIFFIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Building the DRM Characteristics - How to dynamically create them I would like to be able to run a post backup command that will generate the characteristics of the clients which will in turn be read as input for defining the DRM characteristics. For example, on NT I intend run a "winmsd /fs" and extract info from the generated output I appreciate any help on how to generate the characteristics for HP and SUN that would be required to rebuild a server eg lanscan on HP & ifconfig on HP Thanks Peter Griffin
