Registry key as a system variable?

[WyldeCarde]

Good morning all

I have a strange one here. we are using symantec live state delivery here. One of the nice things about it is that it is "location aware" It can figure out what its closest server is, so when our customers move from site to site, the LSD agent is able to use the closest server for its installations etc.

Now the system works by updating a registry key to the name of the local server. It has becaome necessary for us to read this value out and use it in a variety of scripts. The best way to do this would be for the registry key value to be declared as a system variable.

Problem is I have no idea how to do that. Does anyone have any ideas? Or better suggestions than a system variable?

 

[ncotton]

Here you go

Dim WSHShell, RegKey, EnvVarReg
Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
RegKey = "HKLM\Software\Neil\"
EnvVarReg = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & "neilsvalue")
set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set oEnv=WshShell.Environment("System")
wscript.echo "Environment Variable is now being created"
oEnv("MyNewEnvironmentVariable") = EnvVarReg

tried and tested....just replace the regkey value remember to include the final '\' and also replace the value that you want to check....this will create the EnvVarReg for the Data of the defined value.

Rember when refering to Registry terminology
A Key = HKLM\HKCU etc
A SubKey = all the nodes down the left under a key
A Value = the named property
A Data = the "data" or "value" or "information" contained in a Value

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[ncotton]

sorry, put that in a startup script too.

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[WyldeCarde]

Perfect, I put it in the process rather than the system area, but otherwise fine

 

[ncotton]

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hehehe
No problem dude

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant