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Populating the SGD Organizational Hierarchy Using a Batch Script

Problem

You want to populate your organizational hierarchy.

Solution

Use the batch scripting functionality of the tarantella object command to create objects within the organizational hierarchy.

Alternatives

• Create and manipulate objects in the SGD Administration Console. This method is not very efficient if you want to populate the organizational hierarchy with a large number of objects.
• Run individual tarantella object commands in sequence. This introduces additional processing overhead, and is not recommended.

Case Study

Indigo Insurance needs to create the organizational units (OUs), applications, application servers, and users to reflect the structure of the organization. You want to automate this process.

Solution

1. Design the structure of your SGD organizational hierarchy, reflecting the structure of Indigo Insurance. Think carefully about how you can use inheritance to make management more easy.
2. Create a file for each type of object you are using in your organizational hierarchy. Each file contains one line per object, with the correct syntax for creating the object from the appropriate tarantella object new_object_type command. For example, to create five OUs you might have a file orgunits.txt containing the following:

   --name "o=Indigo Insurance/ou=IT"
   --name "o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Sales" \
   --name "o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Marketing" \
   --name "o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Finance" \
   --name "o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Finance/ou=Administration" 

   Do not include the command name (for example, object new_windowsapp) as part of each line.

   Application objects (including groups and OUs) must be created in the o=applications organization.

   Application server objects (including groups and OUs) must be created in the o=appservers organization.

3. Once all your files are complete, use the tarantella object script command to process them all at once, for example:

   #!/bin/sh
   
   tarantella object script << EOF
   new_orgunit --file orgunits.txt
   new_group --file groups.txt
   new_host --file hosts.txt
   new_person --file people.txt
   new_xapp --file xapps.txt
   new_windowsapp --file windowsapps.txt
   new_charapp --file charapps.txt
   EOF

   The tarantella object script command runs each command in order. Each command reads and processes the specified file.

Next Steps

• You can use any tarantella object subcommand with the tarantella object script command. You do not have to read in object details from other files. For example, you can customize webtops from a batch script by including add_link and remove_link lines.
• Many other commands, for example the tarantella passcache command, accept --file arguments, so you can perform multiple related actions at once.

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