I agree that a unique ID would be beneficial in the long run and would also eliminate discussions on polluted data - I was only trying to make a point that we do not need an opt-in for the suggested data.
I have used the MAC address before for that purpose - before VMs it was unique but now we need to combined with something more. Maybe the UUID for the root device (found via blkid). f.ex: /dev/mapper/main-root: UUID="a41a9845-53be-489b-969c-bee4d387af3d" TYPE="ext3" From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Martens Sent: 10. marts 2014 09:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discussion] Install statistics for SME Server [SMOLT] On 9-3-2014 23:33, Jesper Knudsen wrote: The only think that this would "reveal" beyond what a YUM update does is a unique ID and install date (why do we need that?). I do not think we need an opt-in for that. Basically, as long as the data gathering is so simple I do not even think a unique ID is needed - we are not looking for exact science here but marketing number and if a few servers are behind the same router/IP that will, or should not, disturb the picture much. We could and should properly make an opt-in solution if we decided to gather more detailed (and usefull??) data as I suggested. Greetings, Jesper Although a unique key does not sound as a requirement for you, I know it makes extension to the data model much easier, I think it is not such a big hassle to create one for every server. I could imagine that in the future we would like to now the install base on a per version base and would like to have an update when a machine changes version number for instance, this would be hard to do without a unique id. In other words without the unique ID you do not know if you get duplicates and statistics data is polluted easily, which IMHO defeats the purpose of this exercise. Kind regards, Jonathan
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