Brad Langhorst schrieb: (...)
>>> The advantage of having a file on the server is that the admin does not >>> have to touch every machine (or use psexec) to get them all to sync up. >>> You bring up a good point about sets of machines... That would be a >>> PITA to deal with using psexec too. >> Still, WPKG Client has to attempt to read such a file every X minutes / >> hours. > > Yeah - that's true - the service would have to do a read on the server > every few minutes (this could be configured in the service). > I don't think it will be noticeable even with a large number of clients. And by default - disable. >>> Maybe it's better to put this feature in the profiles.xml where it could >>> enabled be on a per group basis. >> There is one slight problem with that: WPKG Client and wpkg.js are not >> very well integrated (it will change slowly in the future; right now, >> there are even problems with restarts initiated by wpkg.js etc.). >> >> This means, we would have to learn WPKG Client to read and parse files >> used by wpkg.js. Which means - parsing profiles.xml is not enough, and >> profiles can be also kept in "profiles" directory. > > That is a bit of a problem. > 1) effort for the service > 2) duplication of code > > Perhaps it's possible to modify wpkg.js to have a new > switch /exportprofiles (or somesuch) that the service could parse > easily. Good idea. >>> The value of X could be included as an attrib of the force_sync element >>> (or in the file) and could default to never. >> All right - this is why I don't like the "force_sync=1 / force_sync=0" idea. >> >> Assume we want to initiate a sync, so we put force_sync=1 there. The >> client syncs, but we see we forgot about something, so another sync is >> needed. Hmm, force_sync=2, force_sync=3, force_sync=n? Logically, how >> should it work? > > I was thinking that maybe X should be something like 600 minutes, I > guess your comments have made me think that would be better than a force > sync. > > If an admin wanted an immediate force she could change the time to 1 > minute and then change it back. And what if it's a he? :) -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
