Am 04.11.2010 23:09, schrieb Gonéri Le Bouder: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:45:22PM +0100, detlef oertel wrote: >> Hi Gonéri, > Hi Detlef, > >> nice to here from you. >> >> Yes , since Berlin we only worked on opsi 4.0. >> So let me take your mail as wakeup call. >> I installed the newest fusioninventory client on my PC, >> run it local and found that for software inventory all (for opsi) >> essential informations are included and for hardware inventory nearly >> all essential information is present. > Good news, > >> So I think it should be not a lot work to make this agent ready to run >> with opsi: The results only have to be send in the correct JSON format >> to the opsi server. >> >> But before I get more detailed i see a more basic problem (not only for >> opsi): >> The fusioninventory agent installs a small perl interpreter (which is >> not the core problem) and sets a path entry to this perl directory. >> And this is a problem, because if there is a other perl version on the >> client which is needed by a other application i will get some trouble. >> Even if a system administrator is not really sure if this problem may >> perhaps be found on only some of his 500 clients, he will avoid to use >> this agent. >> This is not theoretical, but our experience. Our first software- and >> hardware-inventory scripts where python scripts with a additional python >> installation. And a lot of customers don't liked it for this reason. So >> we switched to py2exe and deliverd the python code as exe. > You're right. It's a sortcut we took some month ago to avoid another > problem but we want to remove it http://forge.fusioninventory.org/issues/151 > I did some try with a tool called PAR::Packer which is similar to py2exe. > It was working ok but was painful to maintain and worst debugging was hard > to do. BTW, the point is we shouldn't touch the %PATH% and we are 100% > agree with you. That's fine > >> I will give you some more information about the JSON format which is >> used in opsi 4.0 in the next days. As a first idea I attached the >> fusioninventory xml file from my pc and the opsi software inventory in >> JSON from the same box and our swaudit script as well. >> More information later. > For the moment the agent speak a proprietary XML over HTTP format inherited > from OCS. But we will be happy to support JSON as an alternative. > Do you have a documentation of the fields of the data structur generated by > swaudit? I will write it down and send it to you in few days.
regards detlef > > Cheers, > > Gonéri Le Bouder -- detlef oertel Tel. +49 6131 / 27561-10 Fax +49 6131 / 27561-22 eMail: [email protected] uib gmbh Firmensitz / Anschrift: Bonifaziusplatz 1B 55118 Mainz internet: www.uib.de Geschäftsführer: dr. detlef oertel Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Mainz HRB 6942 _______________________________________________ Fusioninventory-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
