reading registry via a batch file?

[DigitalD]

I'm trying to find a decent way to keep track of which systems are staying up to date with their mcafee updates. What I would like to do is have a simple batch file that can be ran on each machine which scans a registry key and simply exports the key value back to a text file with some indicator of what machine it came from.

what I would like to see is something like this:

$computername$: 4.0.4307
$computername2$: 4.0.4304

the key that it needs to read is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\szDatVersion

if someone could help me out with the reading the registry part or point me in the direction of a good tutorial on performing these kinds of operations (I didn't find anything good while googling for a solution)I would greatly appreciate it 0_o

 

[wolluf]

Could use something like psexec (part of pstools freeware from

http://www.sysinternals.com)

with regedit -

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html

using export to a reg file option.

 

[DigitalD]

OK, I did find something that would work on the mark vanderwoude page. his regread script looks like this once I customized the output:

@ECHO OFF
:: Check Windows version
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Syntax
:: Check command line
ECHO.%* | FIND "?" >NUL



:: Keep variables local
SETLOCAL

:: Read variables from command line
SET RegSection="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx"
SET RegKey="szDatVersion"
SET RegVal=


:: Store content of registry section in temporary file
REGEDIT /E "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" "%~1"

:: Use EGREP to search requested value in temporary file
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" 2^>NUL ^| EGREP -i "^^\"?%~2\"?="') DO SET RegVal=%%B

:: Format and display the result
IF DEFINED RegVal (
SET RegVal=%RegVal:\\=\%
)
IF DEFINED RegVal (
ECHO.
ECHO %RegKey%=%RegVal%
ECHO %COMPUTERNAME%,%DATE%,%RegKey%=%RegVal% >> \\ntserver\admin\7-11\MATT\version.txt
)

:: Delete temporary file
IF EXIST "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" DEL "%Temp%.\readreg.dat"

:: Done
ENDLOCAL & SET RegVal=%RegVal%
GOTO:EOF


:Syntax
ECHO.
ECHO ReadReg.bat, Version 1.02 for Windows NT 4 / 2000 / XP
ECHO Read a value from the registry
ECHO.
ECHO Usage: READREG "section" "key"
ECHO.
ECHO Where: "section" is the section name, without brackets
ECHO "key" is the key whose value must be read
ECHO.
ECHO This batch file uses EGREP to search for the value
ECHO.
ECHO Example:
ECHO READREG "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" "path"
ECHO should return the user part of the PATH variable
ECHO.
ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude
ECHO

http://www.robvanderwoude.com

the only problem is that it doesn't seem to be set for the keys I entered for RegSection and RegKey, it still wants to pull variables from the command line. The variables will never change so I wanted to keep them permanent. But now it doesn't produce any output. Any ideas on where to go from here?

 

[DigitalD]

DOH! Missed a few variables that were no longer set. Final code as follows:

@ECHO OFF
:: Check Windows version
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Syntax
:: Check command line
ECHO.%* | FIND "?" >NUL



:: Keep variables local
SETLOCAL

:: Read variables from command line
SET RegSection="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx"
SET RegKey="szDatVersion"
SET RegVal=


:: Store content of registry section in temporary file
REGEDIT /E "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx"

:: Use EGREP to search requested value in temporary file
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" 2^>NUL ^| EGREP -i "^^\"szDatVersion\"?="') DO SET RegVal=%%B

:: Format and display the result
IF DEFINED RegVal (
SET RegVal=%RegVal:\\=\%
)
IF DEFINED RegVal (
ECHO.
ECHO %RegKey%=%RegVal%
ECHO %COMPUTERNAME%,%DATE%,%RegKey%=%RegVal% >> \\ntserver\admin\7-11\MATT\version.txt
)

:: Delete temporary file
IF EXIST "%Temp%.\readreg.dat" DEL "%Temp%.\readreg.dat"

:: Done
ENDLOCAL & SET RegVal=%RegVal%
GOTO:EOF


:Syntax
ECHO.
ECHO ReadReg.bat, Version 1.02 for Windows NT 4 / 2000 / XP
ECHO Read a value from the registry
ECHO.
ECHO Usage: READREG "section" "key"
ECHO.
ECHO Where: "section" is the section name, without brackets
ECHO "key" is the key whose value must be read
ECHO.
ECHO This batch file uses EGREP to search for the value
ECHO.
ECHO Example:
ECHO READREG "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" "path"
ECHO should return the user part of the PATH variable
ECHO.
ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude
ECHO

http://www.robvanderwoude.com

 

[TonHu]

have a look at

http://home.wanadoo.nl/tonhu/McUpdate.htm

and don't forget to read the readme file! (when installed)

Have Fun s-)

HTH
TonHu