NBU 6 - How is it grabbing version info?

[Terry_Polk]

As of NBU 6, you get the complete version information in the Java GUI when you click on a client under "Host Properties" (e.g. 6.0MP4). Does anyone know how the GUI is grabbing that information behind the scenes?

I've been using a homegrown script for NBU 4x and 5x that gets the installation location of Win clients via bpgetconfig, then grabs the version.txt file from the client via bpgp so the version info can be read. But, bpgp is not working on my 6.0 masters. I would appreciate any help in understanding why bpgp isn't working anymore (is it locked down in 6?) or, find out how the GUI is going about grabbing version info from the client. I'd prefer to script the collection of this data rather than to highlight the client list in the GUI and wait for it to chug through them all.

Thanks for your help!
-Terry

[Dennis_Strom]

bpcoverage -c clentname | grep Netbackup

[AKopel]

That command does not return the MP version for the client....
AK

[Dennis_Strom]

It does when I run it against a solaris client.

[AKopel]

Ahh! Got it!
No go for Windows though...

[Terry_Polk]

Yep, bpcoverage is great for the Solaris clients... it's only the Windows systems we have to jump through hoops for. :)

[Stumpr2]

http://forums.symantec.com/discussions/thread.jspa?messageID=4427484軜

[sdo]

Hi Terry,
You could try this:

bpgetconfig -s

This should return O/S version and NBU type and version.

e.g.

M:\>bpgetconfig -s media5
Media Host
Solaris, Solaris7
5.1.0
NetBackup
5.1
510000
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin
SunOS 5.8


Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dave.