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Onboard Administrator -- best practices

ikeleong — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:07:24 GMT

Hello;

I maintain 14 blade enclosues, one IA Dome enclosure

I have been manually logging into each OA and saving "show configs" as needed and/or once a month

1) I have as yet not had to put back an OA using a "show config" file, what should I expect to see what I do that.

I do realize that passwords for configed users may not be there

2) is there an automated way I can create the backup configs

thanks much

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

scharchouf — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:41:25 GMT

wich OA version you have?

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

ikeleong — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:57:23 GMT

My OA versions are: 3.11 3.30 3.56 3.60 3.70 4.01 4.11

BTW I am an ex-HP employee part of the "HURD" forced retirement (okay layoff) after 31 yrs service in Dec 2005

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

scharchouf — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:10:39 GMT

I give the OA CLI you can found on that document all commande and descriptions for any tasks

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

Torsten. — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:27:29 GMT

>> is there an automated way I can create the backup configs

Maybe you can script the task with "plink" for example and schedule these scripts?

For the SD2 consider to backup the parconfig, have a look at

DOWNLOAD PARCONFIG ARCHIVE

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

Psychonaut — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:41:51 GMT

I use a batch file with plink that dumps the show config to a text file. It then renames the file with the current date at the end so that the file doesn't get overwritten. Run the batch file and you've got a dump of all your OA's.

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

The Brit — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:39:41 GMT

Hey Psycho,

Would you consider sharing your scripts? I am not a window's type, so I am not qualified to write my own.

I'd personally appreciate it very much.

Dave

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

The Brit — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:07:42 GMT

Here is my concern.

In the "olden days" I was somewhat disturbed to discover that the although the OA GUI will display the Current Configuration, and/or the current inventory, it does NOT provide an option to save it to a file directly. Instead, you have to resort to using the browser tools.

I began by using edit>Select All>copy and then opening a NotePad window and Pasting in the buffer. Now I could save the file to whatever location I wished. I subsequently discovered that the IE File > Save As produced the same output. and so I dropped the NotePad bit.

Unfortunately, at some point IE stopped working with older versions of OA and VC (I think IE6-ish). And doubly unfortunate, I have a remote (2000 miles remote) unattended enclosure which is still running Version 2.6, and is highly unlikely to be upgraded (since any issues would probably require a physical "hands-on")

I discovered however that FireFox did not have the same issues as IE, so I switched to FireFox for that enclosure and was able to continue backing up the configs without a problem (I thought). Things were made worse by the fact that I subsequently changed my default browser from IE to FireFox (not just be cause of this, FireFox was/is much faster)

I have recently discovered however, that that the files being saved by FireFox are not formatted the same as those saved by IE. FireFox saves the files as "Stream", and inserts a linefeed character between records. This is fine as long as the OA reads the files as "Stream", inwhich case the <LF> is just a command separator, however if you print the file to your screen, you either get a continuous stream of characters (on Windows), or you get the formatted file with a blank line inserted between each record (OpenVMS).

So my question is: If I had to restore this configuration, could the OA read the "Stream"ed file ??

Thanks

Dave.

P.S. after 7 years, it is time for HP to remove this issue, by simply offering the option to save the displayed config/Inventory display to a file (with a "browse to" button). It is ridiculous that this function is left to the Browser functions. VCM doesn't do it! It generates the file and asks where to put it. Its time that OA did the same.

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

Psychonaut — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:55:32 GMT

Sure, I just use plink in a batch file to dump the config to a text file:

plink -ssh user@chassis1.yourdomain.com -pw password show config > c:\OAConfigs\chassis1.txt

If you get fancy you can add the date and time and rename the file to include those.

Re: Onboard Administrator -- best practices

ikeleong — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:06:46 GMT

Dave;

I agree with you in having people post real world examples instead of just saying what to use.

that is why I posted on here first, but what a mistake.

Done with this board...tired of non objective solutions or supposed help

Better off just using google