Layer scripting help

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trb48
April 16th, 2009

 I am trying to add some logic into a script that I am working with. I would like the script to determine if a layer is present on the computer, if it is, the script does X. If the layer is missing the script will do Y. I have looked at SVSCMD.exe and I can't find anything that would let me determine if the layer is present or not. Any suggestions?

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Jordan
31 weeks 4 days ago

You could use WMI (VBS or

You could use WMI (VBS or .Net) or the API (C++ or .Net) to do this by either GUID (best) or Layer Name, you could also use the Command line but it would be harder.  Let me know what you're environment is and I'll help.

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trb48
31 weeks 4 days ago

 I am not a coder, so I feel

 I am not a coder, so I feel more comfortable using the command line...

Thanks for your willingness to help!

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Jordan's picture
Jordan
31 weeks 4 days ago

You can use REG COMPARE(type

You can use REG COMPARE(type reg compare /? in the command line for info) to check to see if a specific GUID or name exists under HKLM\SYSTEM\Altiris\FSL\  you'll have to cycle through all the magic numbers because those can be different on each machine by using the /s (subkey) flag.  REG COMPARE will return a 0 if it finds what you're looking for.

What you'll be looking for is ID and NAME under the magic number.

WMI would be like this (which I recommend)

strComputer = "."
SET objWMIService = GetObject( _
"winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\default" )
SET colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"Select * from VirtualSoftwarePackage Where GUID=myGUID" )
FOR EACH objItem IN colItems
'do my layer import or whatever
NEXT

More here. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/s...

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AngelD
31 weeks 4 days ago

A Quick Way to Write SVS Scripts

We've had some previous discussion regarding scripting for SVS in various languages, check out A Quick Way to Write SVS Scripts

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erikw
29 weeks 4 days ago

Easy solution

You can do the VBscript and use it as an onevent.
That's usually the way I handle this kind of tricky stuff.
In the new SWV this will be default technologie.

Regards
Erik
www.DinamiQs.com
Dinamiqs is the home of VirtualStorm (www.virtualstorm.org)

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Jeremy_Hurren
29 weeks 3 days ago

Easy way to accomplish with cmd/bat files

Solution

You can use the layer properties command and then check the errorlevel afterward. So, I use something like the following...

@echo off
svscmd.exe "MyLayerGuid" p >NUL
if errorlevel 1 (
echo Layer is not there
) else (
echo Layer is there
)
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