Deployment Solution Script Repository
Created: 29 May 2009 | 3 comments
We use some scripts that pull values from a SQL server into tokens that are cotained in the script and then drive mappings and other actions happen based off the values that are passed into the tokens. An issue that we have run into is that when a change is needed in a script, we have to go through the script in every single job to make the update. It would be great if there was a central repository for commonly used scripts where you could just point a job to that script to run it. That way there would be only one script to update, but the changes would happen across the board.
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This is already posible
Mike,
We already have configured our DS to do this.
if you just create a folder on your DS (or like we did on a DFS so we can use them from all of our DS Servers) with all of your scripts.
Then at the script job you can just select run script from file and browse to this folder and select the script to use.
The security on the folder should only allow access for your altiris service account.
Regards,
Dennis
Yes but...
You are correct that you can store scripts in a central place and run them, but the part that we haven't gotten to work is running scripts from a central repository where there is token replacement occuring from the SQL database and from the computer properties. For all generic scripts that don't require this, we do have them in a central repository.
Yes, but...
Can you not keep all your static scripts in a central repository as well as utilising the "temp" folder for resultant scripts from ReplaceTokens? That way all you need to do is update the template file and the next ReplaceToken execution dumps this into the "temp" folder for the systems to use. There is also nothing stopping you from setting the output of the ReplaceTokens command to another folder on the DS and use that location as the central repository.
Maybe I just don't understand.
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