Creating a lit of DCRs

TS741, WS8

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1) I want to create a report of DCRs existing for a particular datatype.

How can I do this ? I think, I have to go on the backend and browse through folder structure to create this list.

My confusion is in D drive, where data is stored, folder names and file names appear as some symbols like "asdj". , which is not understandable. Can a script go through Y drive and read all the content ?OR access to Y drive will not be allowed for a script ?

2) I also want to read metadata created using TAg UI attached to a DCR.

When metadata is attached to a DCR using Tag UI, where is it getting stored ? Is it with DCR itself OR does it get stored in a separate location ? I want read through metadata attached to a DCR for generating a report. Hoiw can I read through this metadata ?

Thanks

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Rick Poulin

1 - Yes, your script could scan the Y drive. You'd want it to run as a service account, so you don't run into permission issues. However, the Y drive is slow -- consider writing this in Java and using the CSSDK instead.

2 - Extended attributes are not visible via the Y drive. You have to ask for them using the iwextattr command line tool. Forking this process for hundreds of DCRs can slow down your script by several orders of magnitude, which is another reason to use the CSSDK instead.

PS.: depending on how much content you have, what would have to be periodically-generated in a script can often be generated on-demand in Java.

anjanas

Thanks.

Where is this extended attrinutes getting stored ? Is this some location, where a user can not navigate to ?

Thanks

vishal11

HI,

Extended attributes are stored in iw-store. Its not accessible though.

You can retreive it either using following command.

'iw-home\bin\iwextattr -l

or better, use CSSDK .