hostinfo_replacevalueΒΆ

Replace an existing value with another in the hostinfo database:

% hostinfo_replacevalue [-k][--all] key=value newvalue [host...]
  • Replace any key that is set to the value with a newvalue
  • If you specify the -k flag, it will tell you what it is going to do but not do it
  • This is generally for making a change like, for example, we are changing the name from ‘v100’s to ‘sun_v100’s now - so hostinfo_replacevalue –all hardware=v100 sun_v100 .
  • If no hosts are specified then all hosts will be affected but you have to specify the --all flag to prevent accidents
  • You should try to avoid having spaces in values as the make using hostinfo from the command line more difficult.
  • Everything will get converted to lowercase.