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Andy Kurth commented on VCL-561:
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Sent to dev list's "VCL 2.4 - development status" thread:
arkurth:
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> +1 (untag from 2.4, lack of time)
> Some code is complete to retrieve software information from Windows
> images but nothing to store it in the database or present it via the
> website. This will be a very useful feature but there is a lot of
> work to do.
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> Image inventory
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>
> Key: VCL-561
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-561
> Project: VCL
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: database, vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
> Affects Versions: 2.2.1
> Reporter: Andy Kurth
> Priority: Minor
>
> It would be useful to automatically retrieve information from image revisions
> and store this information in the database.
> Some examples of information which would be valuable:
> -List of all the applications installed
> -Patches installed
> -Whether or not the firewall is enabled
> -Firewall port exceptions
> -Users stored in the image
> This information would be valuable in many ways:
> -Users could specify which application they want to use on the website and a
> list of images with that application could be displayed.
> -Licensing -- if you need to know which images contain a specific application
> in order to plan license purchases or ensure compliance.
> -Security -- Suppose your base image had an extra user account with a weak
> password. You could identify any images/revisions created from it and secure
> them.
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