Defaults & symbolichotkeys in Mac OS X
Front Row is awesome. Hot keys are awesome. Typos are not. While zipping along, typing my fool heart out, I tend to fat finger about enough to drop my words per minute in half at times. Occasionally, my typos will land me in an annoying spot, with some application opening: often that application is Front [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: Command line, defaults, expose, front row, hot keys, Mac OS X, map hot keys from command line, map shortcut keys, plistbuddy, plutil
Managing SyncPlans from the PresSTORE CLI
PresSTORE has a Synchronize module, that can be used to copy data from one location to another. This is done by the use of synchronization plans, or sync plans for short. Each plan is given a name and has a number of attributes associated with it, such as whether it is enabled or disabled. PresSTORE [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: Command line, mirror, Podcast Producer, Presstore, sync plan, synchronization plan, syncplan, Xsan
DeployStudio From the Command Line
Recently I did a little article on importing computers into DeployStudio lists. I got an overwhelming number of email requests to go a step further and look at importing computers into DeployStudio from the command line. I’m guessing lots of people want to bolt some middleware onto their mass deployment tools (can’t say I blame [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: add computer, add workflow, byhost, Command line, database, defaults, DeployStudio, iMaging, Mac OS X, scripting
BRU Primer -> Advanced
In BRU 2, you have 3 tools to use. These include: BRU Server Agent Config (UB) – A tool used to install the agent, which needs to be located on each machine that will be backed up (including the server if it has any data to back up) BRU Server Config (UB) – Used to [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security · Tagged with: agent, backup, BRU, bru-server, Command line, config, console, kill, Mac OS X, script, server
Perl Control
There are a lot of versions of the popular perl scripting language out there, and depending on what version you may have written a script with you might find that using a different version than the one that comes with an OS by default can have a drastic impact on a script. In Mac OS [...]
In: Mac OS X · Tagged with: 32-bit, com.apple.versioner.python, Command line, defaults, perl, python, Version
Archive & Restore Assets with fcsvr_client
Final Cut Server has an option to archive and restore assets. When archiving an asset, the asset will be moved to a file system path that is represented by the device ID. The archival and restore can be done using the steps shown in this video: The process of archival and restore can be kicked [...]
In: Final Cut Server · Tagged with: archive, Automation, Command line, fcsvr_client, Final Cut Server, restore, script
Scripting Productions and Assets in Final Cut Server
When you’re integrating Final Cut Server with other products, you often find yourself writing scripts to perform various tasks. One of those tasks might be to create a new project, or a production as it’s called in Final Cut Server. Because a production can have a number of attributes, a great way to do this [...]
In: FileMaker, Final Cut Server · Tagged with: Command line, create asset, create production, create project, fcsvr_client, Final Cut Server, projects
Monitoring/Restarting Retrospect
As of version 8, Retrospect uses port 22024 when the Retrospect Console needs to communicate with the engine. It just so happens that this can become unresponsive when the engine itself decides to stop working. Therefore, if you’re using Retrospect 8, you can run a port scan against port 22024 ( i.e. stroke <IP_ADDRESS> 22024 [...]
In: Mac OS X Server · Tagged with: 22024, Command line, launchd, port, restart engine, retrospect, tcp
Setting up CHAP on LeftHand w/ CLI
LeftHand Storage uses the cliq command line for configuring their devices. cliq isn’t necessarily interactive and so we end up needing to specify the username, password and IP of the device with each command (although you can setup a key as well if you’re going to be doing automated tasks). One task that I’ve found [...]
In: Unix, Windows Server, Xsan · Tagged with: admin, assignvolumechap, chap, CLI, cliq, Command line, deletevolume, getLocalVolumes, lefthand, modifyraid, modifyvolume, Password, username, volume
Enabling RAID Mirrors Redux
When new versions of operating systems come out sometimes articles need to be updated. It’s always nice when someone else does the hard part. Recently, Ben Levy, an Apple Consultant from Los Angeles, did some work on an article I did awhile back. To quote Ben, the new procedure is to: 1. Boot from something [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server · Tagged with: Command line, diskutil, enable mirror on the fly, Mac OS X, raid
