Pete, I too have toyed with this concept but never really come up with anything concrete. The winmsd command will extract a lot of information to a text file. This would be nice to import into the DRM feature of TSM, but how? If we can find a way to pump the output of winmsd into DRM via pre and post backup commands, we may have something here!!! Please, keep me informed and I will do the same. John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company Global Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com -----Original Message----- From: PETER GRIFFIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Building the DRM Characteristics - How to dynamically create them I would like to be able to run a post backup command that will generate the characteristics of the clients which will in turn be read as input for defining the DRM characteristics. For example, on NT I intend run a "winmsd /fs" and extract info from the generated output I appreciate any help on how to generate the characteristics for HP and SUN that would be required to rebuild a server eg lanscan on HP & ifconfig on HP Thanks Peter Griffin
