win_postinstall.py(8B)

💅 win_postinstall.py — it's giving "Windows setup bestie" ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page from the PBS Professional manual, section 8B, and it's about win_postinstall.py. Windows only, no cap. Let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

win_postinstall.py — for Windows, bb. It configures your PBS MoM or client. That's the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

<PBS_EXEC>\etc\python win_postinstall.py -u <PBS service account>
        -p <PBS service account password> -t <installation type>
        -s <server name> [-c <path to scp command>]

Like, that's the shape of it. Copy it exactly, don't freestyle 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So win_postinstall.py is the little script that configures the PBS MoM and the commands. It handles the post-installation steps for you — the unglamorous but iconic stuff, namely:

• validating the PBS service account username and password 🔐
• installing the Visual C++ redistributable binary 📦
• creating the pbs.conf file in the PBS destination folder 📝

If you're doing an "execution" type of installation, it also creates PBS_HOME, then registers and starts the PBS_MOM service. main character energy fr fr 👑

Heads up bestie: when you use this command during an "execution" type installation of PBS, it automatically un-registers any old PBS MoM. No manual cleanup needed, it just handles it 🙈

Available on Windows only. Literally do not try this anywhere else 🌈

🔥 Required Privilege 🔥

You gotta have Administrator privilege to run this command. Like, actual admin. Not "I know a guy" energy. ⭐

💜 Options to win_postinstall.py 💜

• -c, --scp-path <path to scp command> — tells it where your scp command lives. That's it, that's the whole thing 🫶
• -p, --passwd <PBS service account password> — the password for the PBS service account. Keep it cute, keep it secret 🤫
• -s, --server <server name> — the hostname where the PBS server will run. Required when your installation type is either "execution" or "client", so don't skip it 💀
• -t, --type <installation type> — what kind of install this is. Type can be one of "execution" or "client" 🌸
• -u, --user <PBS service account> — the PBS service account. And listen, this part matters: when you specify the PBS service account — whether or not you're on a domain machine — include only the username, not the domain. So like, if the full username on a domain machine is <domain> \ <username>, you pass only <username> as the argument. Don't bring the domain to the party, it's not invited 🎀

lowkey the most important bit: domain? leave it at home. username only. iykyk ✨

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓

sign-off szn: this one's from the Local corner of the manual, dated 20 November 2019, and yeah — it's win_postinstall.py(8B) all the way down. mwah 💋🦋