Le 05/25/2011 07:47 PM, Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
Le 25/05/2011 11:09, Amir Pakdel a écrit :
So, I don't have objection (that's your time after all), but I don't
think the added value is worth the development effort. Agent
configuration and deploiement could be made easier, indeed, but I don't
think fancy GUIs (especially in native code) will help very much here.
Hi Amir and Guillaume,
While I'm sure this remote installation feature will be
useful for Windows, I've a mixed filling regarding
Linux/Windows/MacOSX.
There is a lot of reason this can be a real mess:
1) wrong prebuilt package for a given host
2) wrong OS detection
3) corrupted file
4) not supported remote ssh server
5) etc
Instead of doing this tricky thing, I think is would be more
simple to add a remote inventory option. Something like.
./fusioninventory-agent --remote-host=XXXX --remote-login=root --remote-pw=root
There is a security issue here since every users will be able
to catch the password with a "ps" call. We should use STDIN or
a file to pass the credential. It's just to show the big picture :)
Guillaume told he believe this can be done easily thanks to the
serious command execution clean-up he did.
Regarding the interface, I tend to believe we should create a
fusioninventory-agent-(win32?)-remote-installer project just
to maintain this part of the code and keep the fusioninventory-agent-gui
source tree alone? This is two very different feature.
Today we generate our packages for Windows using
NSIS on Linux. This is very useful since we just need a tag
to generate a new release. This since to be doable for QT two:
http://clam-project.org/wiki/Devel/Windows_MinGW_cross_compile#Crosscompiling_with_Qt
In this case we will be able to generate a .zip file with
the current agent and the fusioninventory-agent-remote-installer
binary for Windows.
Maybe I'm on crack but I wonder if it would be possible to
embed the fusioninventory-agent-win32 installer within the
fusioninventory-agent-remote-installer binary during the
build process? :D This way we would be able to drop one of
the settings tab of the GUI and so, reduce the complexity.
It seems to me that everybody agrees upon one thing: Remote
UNIX/Linux/MacOSX agent execution/Installation would not be useful. In
fact, this GUI is for Windows based systems.
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