There's command line equivalent in 5.x versions for client settings of 
Admin GUI (I guess it still present in NBU 6 on Windows)

You can use: 

bpclient -client client_name -add -WOFB_enabled 0

to disable both VSP/VSS for specific client.

Run 'bpclient -h' to see all features. The man page doesn't document
WOFB options for some reason ('Windows Open Files Backup' I guess)

No need to bounce server after running the command.

With basic scripting there's no problem to run this for 300 clients.
You can get their names from 'bpplclients policy_name' for specific
policy or simply 'bpplclients' to get the whole list.

Hope this helps.

Stas.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Brandon Zermeno wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:31:34 -0700
> From: Brandon Zermeno <Brandon.Zermeno AT Pulte DOT com>
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Global VSP setting
> 
> I guess that is the way to go, unfortunately we are talking about over
> 300 clients. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:02 AM
> To: william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Global VSP setting
> 
> The best way to deal with this in my opinion is just go to Master
> Server Settings -> Client Attributes and add each client that is a
> Windows client and make sure VSP/VSS are disabled.
> 
> Justin.
> 
> On 3/17/06, william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com> 
> wrote:
> > Not that I can find, and I asked Symantec support.  We have a problem
> > upgrading from 4.5 to 5.1 on Windows.  We had for 4.5 installed VSP
> (set
> > INSTALLVSP=1) in the silentclient.cmd file.   We then set the registry
> key
> > VSP_Use=NO - this is the same as clearing the check box in the client
> > configuration in the GUI (at 4.5).  The theory was that if we found we
> > needed VSP, it could just be toggled on.
> >
> > When we upgrade to 5.1, we find that the VSP code is left in situ,
> whether
> > we set INSTALLVSP to 0 or not.   The VSP_Use registry key is no longer
> > used.   If there is no client database entry on the Master for the
> client,
> > the command it sends for backups has use_ofb set.   So VSP kicks in.
> We
> > filled a few disks that way.
> >
> > I tried renaming VSPAPI.DLL out of the way and sure enough the log
> reports
> > "VSP disabled", but it still tries to do some stuff about cleaning up
> > entries using bpfis, which generate some error messages.  Looks as if
> > something in a database bpfis maintains is not right.
> >
> > So the defintive fix seems to be to add client database entries for
> all
> > Windows clients, and set WOFB_Enable=0.  That can be scripted.   We
> will
> > also stop installing VSP!
> >
> > William D L Brown
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Brandon Zermeno" <Brandon.Zermeno AT pulte DOT com>
> > Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > 16-Mar-2006 17:51
> >
> > To
> > veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > [Veritas-bu] Global VSP setting
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to globally disable using VSP? I only know of the
> client
> > attributes on the master server.  Is there a touch file? I am running
> NBU
> > 6mp1 on Windows.
> >
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