On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:56:39PM -0600, David Rock wrote:
> * Trask Ent <tux242 AT yahoo DOT com> [2006-01-13 18:17]:
> > I was wondering is there a way to run a select statement or other so
> > that you can grep or query  every client  on a master node for the
> > client version and have it produce an output oir similar with the
> > client node name and version or something close?  Thanks. Tux242
> 
> You can get a list of clients with bpplclients and then use bpcoverage
> to query each client and ask it for its version info. That is the most
> accurate way to get the information. Data stored on the Master server
> could be inaccurate.

This will not produce accurate information for Windows clients.  The
only way to get Windows version information is to extract it out of the
registry.

Not only that, but bpcoverage is unsupported, undocumented, and Veritas
broke it with the last set of maintenance patches.   

Sigh...
        .../Ed

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