[wpkg-users] Set variable based on Computer Name

[Michael MacKay]

Excellent, I think your first suggestion would be easier to implement.  I
didn't realize that wpkg.js would accept variables set by the batch file
calling it.  I am learning as I go...

Thanks again, loving this software.

Mike

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
>
> On 06.01.2012 00:03, Michael MacKay wrote:
>
>> I have 10 locations I am using WPKG with and use some syncing software to
>> deploy
>> the WPKG directory to all the locations.  Currently, I have the WPKG
>> Clients on
>> each workstation have the %SOFTWARE% location variable and wpkg.js
>> directed to
>> the local server, so all the files in the WPKG directory are common
>> across all
>> locations.
>>
>> I would like to set it to allow a local initialization of wpkg.js but
>> when I run
>> it from a batch file it doesn't have the %SOFTWARE% variable so can't
>> find the
>> installers.
>>
>> I use a common hostname structure; Each office has a unique first four
>> characters on all system, with the server having only the four
>> characters. SO
>> when I run this on any client it will pull the script.
>>
>>    set SERVER=%computername:~0,4%
>>
>>    cscript //%SERVER%/WPKG/wpkg.js /synchronize
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't have the WPKG variable for the software path as
>> that
>> is in the WPKG Client.  Is there a way to set a WPKG variable based on
>> the first
>> four characters of the hostname?  Then I could build that into the
>> package.xml
>> and can run the wpkg.js without the client which would allow me to
>> troubleshoot
>> easier, as well as manually start wpkg to  install on systems without
>> rebooting.
>> I am sure it wouldn't be hard, I just don't know javascript at all...
>>
>
> I am not sure if I fully understood your use case as I just skimmed your
> text.
>
> If you call wpkg.js from script you might just set the SOFTWARE variable
> in the script:
>
>
> @echo off
> set SERVER=%computername:~0,4%
> set SOFTWARE=\\%SERVER%\share\**software
> cscript \\%SERVER%\WPKG\wpkg.js /synchronize
>
> If you call wpkg.js by WPKG-Client, then just set SERVER and SOFTWARE
> variables in WPKG client variable. Alternatively just configure WPKG client
> to run exactly the script above from some share or the local drive. So just
> use WPKG-client to do exactly the same thing as you would do manually.
>
>
> If you need some variables set in packages then you might use WPKG 1.3.0
> and conditional values:
>
> <variable name="SERVER" value="abcd">
>  <condition>
>    <check type="host" condition="hostname" value="^abcd" />
>  </condition>
> </variable>
> <variable name="SERVER" value="1234">
>  <condition>
>    <check type="host" condition="hostname" value="^1234" />
>  </condition>
> </variable>
>
>
> This will assign the value "abcd" on all hosts where the hostname starts
> with "abcd".
> It will assign the value "1234" if the hostname starts with 1234.
> ...
>
>
> Like this you can set variables within a package, a profile or within host
> assignment.
>
> br,
> Rainer
>
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