How to Capture a Windows 2000 File or Application

Before you can deploy a file or application across systems, you have to make the file or application known to the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System software and wrap it into a component.

Although the general approach that you follow is the same for all component types, details differ depending on the actual types that you need to use.

Steps

1. Select the Windows icon under the Common Tasks section of the left control panel.

2. Click the Create New link next to the component type you need to create.

   For example, to create a component that contains a batch file, follow these steps:

   1. Go to the Additional Windows Tasks section.

   2. Click Create New next to Windows Batch File.

3. On the Components Details Edit page, fill in the appropriate information.

   For example, for a batch file, fill in this information:

   1. Type a name for the component

   2. Choose the host from which to procure the batch file.

   3. Navigate through the file system hierarchy on the host, and choose the batch file.

4. Click Check in Selected Item.

Using the Command Line

You can also create a component through the command line. For more information about commands, see cdb.rsrc: Managing Components in N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.

• For a simple file, such as a batch file, a command file, or a dynamic linked library file, use the following command:cr_cli -cmd cdb.rsrc.ci -src filename -dst component-name -u username -p password

  where:

  • filename is the name of the file that you want to check in.

  • component-name is the name that you want to use for the component

• For files that you have to browse, such as COM+ applications, registry keys, or data source names, the command is more complex. If you have exported the file, you can use an “Exported File Browser” to check in the file. In the command, you have to specify the sourcePath. The sourcePath is the path that you would see when you browse for a file of this component type in the browser interface.

  The following example checks in a data source name from a file dsn.n1test.

  %> cr_cli -cmd cdb.rsrc.ci -src exported/dsn.n1test -dst dsn.n1test -type 'com.sun.windows#data source name' -platform 'NM:system#Windows 2000 Server' -pickerName 'Exported File Browser' -extraOpts sourcePath='System DSNn\\1test\\' -u **** -p ****