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Are you using HP OVO (Openview Operation)/ITO/OMU (Operation Manager for Unix) ? So you must be understand how hard to write a templates document, especially if you have hundreds or thousands templates in your environment .  This is a quick-and-dirty script I use, that similar to my previous released script, tpl2csv, but instead dumping the templates to csv file, this script will generate xls (Microsoft Excel) spreadsheet.

You need to have the node templates first before executing the tpl2xls.pl script, and also the templates has to be in a correct directory hierarchy. But don’t worry, I will also give you the script (gettemplates.pl) to download the templates in correct hierarchy.

The script needs John McNamara’s Spreadsheet-WriteExcel module, but it has been included inside the tpl2xls archive.

Please read terms of use before downloading the script(s)

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tpl2xls

tpl2xls-1.0.3

gettemplates

This script will download templates into tpl2xls-readable hierarchy. It reads a node list file like the one included in the package

gettemplates-1.0.2.pl.tar.gz

Have you ever confused about how to install a minimal-but-enough installation of solaris OS? Well I had.

It was some time ago I wanted to install Sun Solaris without graphical environment, but I still want some services like ssh and ftp server, and the powerful shell bash. You can always customize the software installation at the installation process, but I found it a bit frustating, because I have to examine the package one-by-one. On the other hand, installing a software by hand from the DVD might takes time to look for the right software since the filename is shortened.

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