According to the docs you can use the following package to
view what has been installed on a workstation...
package
id=wpkg-xml
name=wpkg.xml files from workstations
revision=1
priority=0
execute=always
install timeout=15 cmd='cmd /C copy %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml
Hi Joe,
Joe wrote:
According to the docs you can use the following package to
view what has been installed on a workstation...
package
id=wpkg-xml
name=wpkg.xml files from workstations
revision=1
priority=0
execute=always
install timeout=15 cmd='cmd /C copy
Rainer Meier wrote:
Hi Joe,
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This is absolutely correct due to the fact that WPKG 1.x does not waste
system resources any more by flushing an incomplete wpkg.xml after each
package.
If you really need to get the absolutely latest version of the local
wpkg.xml I recommend putting a
Hi Joe
Joe wrote:
Ok... Thanks... I was going crazy for a bit trying to figure out
why the files never matched. Might want to add this to the docs
on http://wpkg.org/Viewing_software_installed_on_workstations
You're very welcome. In fact the Execute after feature has been
introduced later
Hi,
If you really need to get the absolutely latest version of the local wpkg.xml
I recommend putting a batch file onto the server and have WPKG client running
that batch file instead of wpkg.js directly.
This allows to launch wpkg.js and then copy wpkg.xml with the batch script.
Uh, why
Rainer Meier wrote:
This brings up the idea in my mind to allow [HOSTNAME] within the
settings_file_name and probably also within settings_file_path - this
could solve the problem and have WPKG to write the file directly to the
server when using
param name='settings_file_path'
Hi,
Uh, why not just use config.xml to configure the location of the logfiles
and wpkg.xml files?
param name='settings_file_path' value='iserv\\install\\wpkg\\status' /
Huh, wouldn't that mean that all clients write to
\\iserv\install\wpkg\status? In fact overwriting each other.
Uh,
Hi Jens,
Jens Geile wrote:
param name='settings_file_name' value='%COMPUTERNAME%.xml' /
Hurray, I even did not think about the variable replacement here... :-)
Lol, this feature has been there for ages. :p I just forgot to copy the line
because I was in a hurry when I wrote the mail.
Rainer Meier schrieb:
Hi Joe
Joe wrote:
Ok... Thanks... I was going crazy for a bit trying to figure out
why the files never matched. Might want to add this to the docs
on http://wpkg.org/Viewing_software_installed_on_workstations
You're very welcome. In fact the Execute after feature
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Rainer Meier schrieb:
Hi Joe
Joe wrote:
Ok... Thanks... I was going crazy for a bit trying to figure out
why the files never matched. Might want to add this to the docs
on http://wpkg.org/Viewing_software_installed_on_workstations
You're very welcome. In fact
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