Hey CC,
I actually didn't pay attention to that, but I believe it would. It
registers itself to Spacewalk as a System. The bad part is, the disk I
had all of the working code on, took a nose dive a while back and I've
been sufficiently busy at work that I haven't had a few moments to dig
through my backups to find a copy of what I had. I might actually just
start over with the proof of concept code I posted to the list a while back.
--
Jason
Colin Coe wrote:
Hi all
If this patch makes it into Spacewalk/Satellite, would these Windows
machines consume entitlements?
BTW: I like the idea of the Windows hardware details (BIOS and
make/model) in Spacewalk/Satellite. Nice to have everything in the
same place.
CC
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Cliff <cpe...@redhat.com> wrote:
Miroslav Suchý wrote:
On 06/21/2010 01:17 AM, Jason Williams wrote:
I was demoing Spacewalk and I realized that it would be a very
interesting way to keep inventory and monitor all my systems, not just
the *nix based ones. So on a whim I decided to break out my limited
The question is what benefit will this bring you beyond simple inventory.
You could not monitor it anyway. Well you can do only remote probes like
ping, traceroute etc. but all that you can do with any other machine record
as parameter of nearly all probes are hostname (which if left empty is set
to hostname of that machine).
Not sure if somebody will be willing to write equivalent of rhnmd for
Windows.
Anyway, I thought I would post the simple python script here and see if
you guys thought it might be something that one day could fit into
Spacewalk/RHN. I've attached the script to this email. It's probably a
bit crude due to my limited Python experience, but surprisingly, I've
tested it on XP and Windows 7 and it seems to register a system just
fine with an activation key. I've done some of the basic Network
Monitoring tests with it too and they seem to work just fine. Thoughts?
And please feel free to tell me I'm probably barking up the wrong tree
if you do think I am.
I like it. This script will need some love - at least ability to specify
activation key on command line and not hard code. If it will be usefull for
somebody (and definitely it will), we can distribute it. Although it will be
on bottom of our priorities. So if you are willing to work on it and
maintain it, go on.
If you polish it I'm willing to accept it. What I would like to see before
accepting it:
- separate README file, with install instructions
- not hardcoded activation key
- do not use ~/rhn_sysid but rather ~/systemid so we are more consistent
- I would like to be more consistent with rhnreg_ks or rhn_register in
both naming of the script and accepted parameters.
- put in header license you choosed for this script (GPLv2 is prefered,
but it is up to you).
I like the idea for Spacewalk in providing a light weight Win client, even
if it is just inventory. I would agree with mirek in that this would be a
low priority for Spacewalk team to have done our selfs, but accepting the
contribution and allowing other users of Spacewalk to have this option as
well can only be a good thing, once it is polished up a bit more :)
Cliff
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