Collecting Nickel files

[Sreekanth Makam_1]

Friends,
How to collect complete Nickel files from a Unix system.I'm working on HPUX 11i.Thanks,
Bijoy

[Suraj_2]

Hi Bijoy

Many days back I have used it. Right now I don't have in my system also.
I think the procedure is as

1)copy the nickel script to any directory
you can use ftp from windows
2)cd
3)sh <script name>
4)ll
(check for the executable permoission)
5)sh <script name>
This will generate the file in HTML format in i think in tmp directory.Copy these file using ftp to windows system.

If you require just checking the configuration, then you can check using the following ways, if ignite utilities are installed

# print_manifest

This will give the configuration in standart output

Rgds
Suraj

[Bill Hassell]

I run nickel on many HP-UX systems every night. I particularly like the HTML format that allows browsing through various sections of the collected information. (I'm assuming you have downloaded nickel already) To run it, I just use:

nickel -n -o /var/tmp/nickel-dir

My script then ftp's the entire directory to a central webserver where the files are made available as a web page. I have used old archives several times when a problem developed and I needed details about filesystems, volume groups, lvols, etc.