Good afternoon, I'm involved in a migration to software libre project in 31 municipalities in the south of Spain. One of our first tasks is to know what apps are public workers using and the hardware components of their PCs and laptops. We need a semiautomatic way of doing this. It also have to be fast and clean.
We have been thinking about doing something like this 1.- Prepare a ltsp server, take it to any municipality and plug it to the switch. Disable its dhcp server if they have any. We will use ltsp one. 2.- Turn on every computer with a ltsp bootable cd 3.- Draw in a map where the computers are and the name of each user, to identify user-computer-information obtained. 4.- Modify some booting scripts so, during the boot process, the thin client: a.- do not boot the X server, we are not going to use any graphics. b.- exec #dmesg c.- identify the mac of the network card d.- save the dmesg output of the client in the server using the thin client's mac as the name of the .txt archive (00_22_21_ae_16_32_hw.txt, for example) e.-show the MAC on the screen so a technician can identify the computer in the map and the user that works with that computer. f.- mount the hard disk g.- list all the archives, directories and its heriarchy from the hard disc of the computer and save it on the server in a .txtfile. The file's name will be related again with the MAC (34_12_07_15_a3_c7_apps.txt) h.- umount the harddisk i.- Eject the cd and press enter j.- Turn off the thin client automaticaly 5.- Check if we have every archive needed 6.- Turn off the ltsp server Once we get both archives from every computer, we'll manipulate them using bash scripting to filter the information needed like .exe or .bat files, the cpu of every computer, etc. We will begin to configure this next week but before that, do you have any suggestion?, do you know anybody that have done something like this? What kind of problems do you think we are going to face? Is there any easier way to do this? Thanks in advance -- Agustín Benito Ejercicios Resueltos (Grupo CPD) www.grupocpd.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
