Identify and report all BackupExec servers

[skar]

Hi all,

I've been tasked to write a script that will check servers (Microsoft) and report back the following if it IS running Backup Exec. If its not then just skip it.

Platform NT, 2000 etc...
Version of Backup Exec
If its running RemoteAgent or has its own Tape Drive

90% of this I'm quite happy with. But I'm a bit stuck with getting information back about the tape drive. Can anyone help with the logic for this? Or even a snippit of code? Point me in the right way.

TIA

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Have you looked at snmp?



Trojan.

 

[fishiface]

I'm no Microsoft expert but if you shared the drives on the servers you could list all shares on each with smbclient and check for a recognised name. It would, however, require the share to be set up in a standard way and I guess if you could mandate that then you wouldn't need to be querying capabilities remotely.

just a thought...

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"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilkes

 

[skar]

Hmmmm... snmp... I'll have a look and let you know. Cheers!