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Populating the Tarantella organizational hierarchy using a batch script

Case study

Indigo Insurance needs to create objects -- organizational units (OUs), applications, people and so on -- to reflect the structure of the organization. You want to automate this process.

Solution

1. Design the structure of your Tarantella organizational hierarchy, reflecting the structure of Indigo Insurance. Think carefully about how you can use inheritance to make webtop management more easy.
2. Create a file for each type of object you're 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, with five organizational units you might have a file orgunits.txt containing the following:

   --name ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=IT"
   --name ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Sales" \
     --webtop indigo/sales/standard
   --name ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Marketing" \
     --webtop indigo/marketing/standard
   --name ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Finance" \
     --webtop indigo/finance/standard \
     --conntype '*:*:SSL'
   --name ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance/ou=Finance/ou=Administration" 

   You must use the full TFN name for each object. Do not include the command name (for example, object new_windowsapp) as part of each line.

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

   #!/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

   tarantella object script runs each command in order, which reads and processes the appropriate file.

Next steps

• You can use any tarantella object subcommand with tarantella object script, and you don't 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 tarantella passcache, accept --file arguments, so you can perform multiple related actions at once.