NDS Exporter

A Perl script to export selected NDS attribute for any kind of NDS objects

Purpose:

We already have released a Windows graphical application for exporting NDS properties to text file see here, but we needed a similar application to be run under Linux for administrative purposes.

This application is not as versatile as the graphical version, but suited our needs and can be distributed under GPL, which is it is not the case of the Windows version ( using Netware Developper's Delphi libraries for Netware/Windows and some Delphi components not available with the free Kylix 3 Open Edition).

In particular there is no sub-context searches (TODO).

Requirements:

ncpfs version 2.2 installed and operational (slist) on the Linux box.
ncpreadprops rev 1.04 or later a diff file is here
compile and install contrib/tcl-utils command line applications ( cd ncpfs/contrib/tcl-utils && make && make install
ACL read attributes should be on for the target context

Usage:

Edit the script to change :
$DEFTREE="INSA_ROOT"; <-- change this to your tree name
$DEFCONTEXT="[root]"; <-- set it to your default context

usage: ndsexporter.pl [options]
-h  Print this help text
-c  class of objects to list (default "user")
-A  attribute_list  One NDS attribute or a quoted & comma separated list (default "cn")
-T  treename
-C  context        Default= root
-f  character      separator between attributes (default= :)
-m  character      separator between values of multi-valued attributes (default = space)
-v  number         Context DCK Flags (default 4)
-n  number         Limit ouput to n lines (testing)

Some real life examples:

./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "group" get the list of NDS groups in context PC

./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "volume" -A "cn,Host Server,Host Resource Name" get the selected properties for volumes in context PC

./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "organizational unit" -A "ou" get the list of NDS OU in context PC

./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "group" -A "cn,member" -m ":" |grep 2a get all members of group 2a.PC separated with a :

Download:

NDSExporter.pl is included in contrib/tcl-utils of the current ncpfs release (not installed by default).
Version 1.00

History:

        1.00 2002   June 06             Patrick Pollet 
                the program is an Perl script wrapper around ncplist to get a list of objects of a NDS class
               and ncpreadprops to retrieve a liste of NDS properties for each found object

TODO:

sub-contexts searchs
Do not use a temporary file but a "double loop"
Find a way to port to Kylix3 Open Edition the graphical Windows version ;-)

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./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "group"	get the list of NDS groups in context PC
./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "volume" -A "cn,Host Server,Host Resource Name"	get the selected properties for volumes in context PC
./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "organizational unit" -A "ou"	get the list of NDS OU in context PC
./ndsexporter.pl -C PC -c "group" -A "cn,member" -m ":" \|grep 2a	get all members of group 2a.PC separated with a :