From: Craig Marl (Meridian Partners Ltd.) (Exchange)
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:28 PM
To: Chris Steck (Exchange); Weiru Cai (Exchange); Henry Lee (Exchange); Alex Armanasu (Exchange); Michele Freed (Exchange); Murthy Srinivas (Exchange)
Subject: steps to create a settings manifest

Ok, here's the step I took to create the settings manifest for RAID.

run sysdiff /snap to create a snapshot of the system.
install RAID, set a bunch of options.
run sysdiff /diff to find out what changed.
run sysdiff /dump to get a readable copy of the changes ;o)
trawl through the dump & figure out which changes are related to RAID.
create a .cmd file to call regtoxml.vbs for each registry entry I'm interested in, for example:

regtoxml HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.rdb D:\statemgr\raid\1.xml /s

regtoxml HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.rdq D:\statemgr\raid\2.xml /s

regtoxml HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.rdt D:\statemgr\raid\3.xml /s

regtoxml HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\raid4.exe D:\statemgr\raid\4.xml /s

run wsmcomp.vbs with the xml file I want to compile as arg1 and the manifest I want to create as arg2 example:

wsmcomp 1.xml raidstate

next, run wsmcomp.vbs again for each of my xml files, but this time using the -m flag to merge them into the manifest. example:

wsmcomp 2.xml raidstate -m -k

wsmcomp 3.xml raidstate -m -k

wsmcomp 4.xml raidstate -m -k

etc.

the -k flag tells the tool to keep going even if there are errors.

now, to check that the manifest an read the settings correctly, run the settings tool with teh manifest as the argument. example:

settings raidstate

you'll see a bunch of message boxes with each setting displayed ( you may want to turn off your speakers if you have them - the beeps will drive you mad!)

to backup the settings run settings.vbs with the /a switch and specify the name of the settings file. example:

settings raidstate /a raidset.wsb

Now, copy the settings file and the compiled manifest to the destination machine, and run the settings tool again, but with the /r switch

settings raidstate /a /r raidset.wsb

Go check the app to see if the settings came across OK.