Hello - we are nearly done the WPKG and Open Audit integration I posted about a little while back. We are working on being able to create the settings.xml file from a web form. I'm having trouble deciphering the password hash encoding / decoding. we tried a straight base64 encoding but the string comes out differently than using the same password from the Windows config tool.
Help is appreciated because once this is done we are ready to release it. Here is the posting I made to the Open Audit forum earlier today: ---- Software Management Enchancement I wanted to say that OA is awesome and we love it, thank you for it. In fact, we like it so much that we are just finishing up a project to extend the web interface by integrating WPKG xml creation to it. If you don't know what WPKG is - please go to http://www.wpkg.org to find out before reading on. We have the ability to create WPKG pkgs and save them as XML. This was actually a pretty difficult task since the XML can be very complicated and we needed to allow for all possibilities. So that part is done and we are now working on integrating it with OA better. We are planning to use the software register section since this seems the be the best place to manage software from. So, in addition to being able to register your licenses - this section will allow you to effectively register your software for management. The registering for management part would take you to WPKG package builder where you would enter all the parameters for the software and it will then create the package.xml for that software and write it to your server. We still need to work on the part where we connect the software to a host (PC) so that it will get installed, but we are expecting that to be pretty simple and may have it done in a few days. So anyway, the end result of all this is that you should be able to use Open Audit to not only inventory your PCs, but also have it add and remove software from them automagically. So the questions I have are - A) is anyone interested in this? B) Since it bridges 2 open source projects - if it's to be combined into an OSS project, which one - or should it be forked into it's derivative that tracks each project separately? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you use WPKG? Tell us how! >> http://wpkg.org/Testimonials _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
