[Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Hi, now its done. A demo is available at: http://www.technikz.de:8080/ features: - Scripts in database (also for using without perl installed -- for the post installation) - The scripts get a priority which can be used to control the corect order of the installation - the scripts has also a dependence so you can control which software is installed /needed by another one (e.g. gimp needs gtk...) - unattend.txt for each Computer - bind to LDAP / Active Directory (work in progress, authentication is working) - see self The settings section doesnt work at this time. But as soon as possible there will be the english language and other themes available. So here are 3 accounts: testuser, testuser2 and testuser3 each has the password unattended Feel free to play around. I have a backup of the current state and it will be restored every week. Feel also free If you want to see the installerscript do the following: download wget and copy it to the %WINDIR% http://www.technikz.de/down/wget.exe http://www.technikz.de/down/libeay32.dll http://www.technikz.de/down/ssleay32.dll Then download the script: http://www.technikz.de/down/wemerge.cmd Play arround with the script and see how easy searching + installing can be! What you need to use the software: - a browser (javascript enabled -- only for opening new windows and creation of new locations) greetz mario gzuk --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Mario Gzuk wrote: Hi, now its done. A demo is available at: http://www.technikz.de:8080/ features: - Scripts in database (also for using without perl installed -- for the post installation) - The scripts get a priority which can be used to control the corect order of the installation - the scripts has also a dependence so you can control which software is installed /needed by another one (e.g. gimp needs gtk...) - unattend.txt for each Computer - bind to LDAP / Active Directory (work in progress, authentication is working) - see self Is it possible to add one more thing to Unattended GUI: A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended, which will check if software installed on each of these machines matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine / machine profiles etc. I think it's a question that often occurs on the list: how to mass update/install software on Windows machines in the network. If this feature would be present in Unattended (GUI), Unattended would be a full-featured solution for mass install / software update of Windows machines. What do you think? Tomek --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Hi Tomasz! A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended, which will check if software installed on each of these machines matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine / machine profiles etc. That is not that easy as it sounds. One solution might be a Win32-Service Application, running with system and network rights, which performs these checks and starts the update procedure. You cannot do this with logon scripts because administrator rights are needed for software installation. cu Niels --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
This is already an idea. I have swveral sulutions for that:
For every software installed from unattended create a extra key in the
registry. Like that:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
There for each entry a key:
DisplayName
UnattendedID here the id from the script
this can be made matching the DisplayName and the fieled Name im
System which is already in the database.
So you can get already installed machines and when installing software.
The service which Niels means can be provide by a already existing
service from M$.
The service runs with administrator rights and its so old that many
people forget that its exists.
so i tested it and it work!
Here comes up the solution:
write a script which called wget to get the installation from the GUI
and runs the todo.pl after that. Then make a at job as administrator:
at [[\\ComputerName] hours:minutes [/interactive]
[{/every:date[,...]|/next:date[,...]}] command]
So you can provide that a computer looks every day at 12:00 if there is
a software update/installation. And runs after that the installation.
I have also extended the scripts for the future, to uninstall the
software So you can get it to work with the gui.
Am Sa, den 13.11.2004 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski um 14:59:
Mario Gzuk wrote:
Hi,
now its done. A demo is available at: http://www.technikz.de:8080/
features:
- Scripts in database (also for using without perl installed -- for the
post installation)
- The scripts get a priority which can be used to control the corect
order of the installation
- the scripts has also a dependence so you can control which software is
installed /needed by another one (e.g. gimp needs gtk...)
- unattend.txt for each Computer
- bind to LDAP / Active Directory (work in progress, authentication is
working)
- see self
Is it possible to add one more thing to Unattended GUI:
A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended,
which will check if software installed on each of these machines
matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine /
machine profiles etc.
I think it's a question that often occurs on the list: how to mass
update/install software on Windows machines in the network.
If this feature would be present in Unattended (GUI), Unattended would
be a full-featured solution for mass install / software update of
Windows machines.
What do you think?
Tomek
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Re: [Unattended] Unattended GUI demo available
Niels S. Richthof wrote: Hi Tomasz! A service, added to each machine created with the help of Unattended, which will check if software installed on each of these machines matches a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine / machine profiles etc. That is not that easy as it sounds. One solution might be a Win32-Service Application, running with system and network rights, which performs these checks and starts the update procedure. You cannot do this with logon scripts because administrator rights are needed for software installation. Yes, I know it can't be done in a logon script. However, There is a GPL project called WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove software/packages after the machine was installed. It can be installed as a service with just a few commands, also when performing an Unattended install. Configuration files are kept on a central server (like Unattended is), are in XML format, and consist of packages.xml (description of packages), profiles.xml (profiles attached to hosts) and hosts.xml (hosts on the network). After each boot it connects to the server, checks configuration (XML files), and installs/removes/upgrades software if necessary. It has no GUI, but the guys are looking for someone capable of writing a http backend to edit XML files. They even have links to Unattended :) Tomek --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
